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• Review: A Sojourner’s Tale – Kola Tubosun’s ‘Edwardsville by Heart’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 30 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Tade Ipadeola. “Light tornado alert tonight at Edwardsville. Stay indoors please, when you hear storm alerts!” a text said. ‘Tornado’, p.33 We look out for the traveler’s tale especially. They bear that extra flavour of the road not… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times & theatre in the digital space – Walter Kahuma of Tebere Arts Foundation shares his thoughts on theatre and creativity in 2020

  By Africa in Words on 28 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Tebere Arts Foundation is an innovative theatre and performance-arts organization that was founded in Uganda in 2018. Creating collaborative new theatre with artists and supporting artistic platforms across Eastern Africa, Tebere Arts pushes the boundaries of theatre-making by bridging the… Read More ›

• Caine Prize 2020 – “There’s been a lot of kindness and even rediscovery of a sense of community”: Words on the Times with the shortlisted writers.

  By Africa in Words on 27 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Ahead of the announcement of the AKO Caine Prize’s winner today at 5pm BST, we were able to catch up with Erica Sugo Anyadike, Chikodili Emelumadu, Jowhor Ile, Rémy Ngamije for their Words on the Times – an AiW Q&A set inspired… Read More ›

• Caine Prize 2020: ‘Your appreciation of power will grow’: A Review of Erica Sugo Anyadike’s ‘How to Marry an African President’

  By wesleymacheso89 on 24 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: AiW’s annual review series of what is now the AKO Caine Prize is back. We’ve been talking about prize culture for a long time at Africa in Words; Kate Wallis’s post on our joining the Caine Prize “blogathon” back in… Read More ›

• Review: In Search of Life Elsewhere – Ifedigbo Nze Sylva’s ‘My Mind is No Longer Here’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 23 July , 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè. AiW note: Tọ́pẹ́, returning as a Guest Author with this review for AiW, has also given us his Words on the Times, a Q&A series initiated to connect up and share the experiences of life and work during… Read More ›

• New closing date 23 July: join our all-volunteer team as Managing Editor

  By Africa in Words on 23 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  We’ve extended our closing date: now end of day, Thursday 23 July 2020 . We are looking for a new team member join us as our Managing Editor. AiW is an entirely voluntary independent collective with a wide reach – currently… Read More ›

• Caine Prize 2020: Review of Jowhor Ile’s “Fisherman’s Stew”

  By Africa in Words Guest on 21 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: AiW’s annual review series of what is now the AKO Caine Prize is back. We’ve been talking about prize culture for a long time at Africa in Words; Kate Wallis’s post on our joining the Caine Prize “blogathon” back in… Read More ›

• Caine Prize 2020 & Africa Writes. Q&A: “[I]nvite our audiences to meditate on joy and re-center our humanity”: Ifeanyi Awachie’s Words on the Times

  By Africa in Words on 20 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: In the first of Africa Writes’ online events this year, Ifeanyi Awachie, London-based Igbo curator and writer, will be in conversation with the 2020 AKO Caine Prize shortlisted writers this evening, Monday 20th July at 19.00 BST (20.00… Read More ›

• Caine Prize 2020: Fiction masquerading as nonfiction: A Review of Chikodili Emelumadu’s “What to do When Your Child Brings Home a Mami Wata”

  By JoannaWoods on 17 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: AiW’s annual review series of what is now the AKO Caine Prize is back. We’ve been talking about prize culture for a long time at Africa in Words; Kate Wallis’s post on our joining the Caine Prize “blogathon” back in… Read More ›

• Review: Zimbabwe’s substitutions, or: what difference would a good or bad past make? Novuyo Rose Tshuma’s ‘House of Stone’ (2018).

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Ranka Primorac. AiW note: After her review of Tshuma’s House of Stone, we were able to catch up with Ranka Primorac for her Words on the Times, an AiW Q&A series running over the last few months, connecting up and… Read More ›

• Caine Prize 2020: “Every day is today”: A Review of Rémy Ngamije’s “The Neighbourhood Watch”

  By Ellen Addis on 10 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: AiW’s annual review series of what is now the AKO Caine Prize is back. We’ve been talking about prize culture for a long time at Africa in Words; Kate Wallis’s post on our joining the Caine Prize “blogathon” back… Read More ›

• Q&A: Débọ̀ Awẹ́ on his Yoruba-language literary career

  By Rebecca Jones on 9 July , 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Débọ̀ Awẹ́ is a writer, a retired secondary school headteacher and a minister of God in Praise for Christ Ministries International. He is also the CEO of Elyon Publishers, a publishing company in Iléṣà, Ọ̀șun State, Nigeria, where he lives…. Read More ›

• In other Words… AiW’s news and June wrap

  By Africa in Words on 7 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  As we move through the changed circumstances, timelines and spaces of now, we catch up on our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar, collated from across our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Please be in touch with any other ways and… Read More ›

• 2018 Africa Writes #P&P – ‘The archive of my life’: The UK pre-launch of Akwaeke Emezi’s autobiographical novel ‘Freshwater’

  By Africa in Words on 5 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Sana Goyal’s piece covering Africa Writes’ 2018 pre-launch of the UK edition of Akwaeke Emezi’s debut novel, Freshwater, brings our range of #PastAndPresent posts over this first weekend in July 2020 – the weekend the in-person festival would… Read More ›

• 2017 Africa Writes #P&P Highlights Reel: 2017 Caine Prize Conversation

  By Africa in Words on 5 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: If AiW memory serves, since at least 2014, Africa Writes has hosted the Caine Prize shortlisted writers in conversation, prior to the announcement of the winner in July. At AiW, we’ve been reviewing the shortlisted stories and thinking… Read More ›

• 2015 Africa Writes #P&P – Losing my Head Because: Ben Okri’s Meditations on Greatness

  By Africa in Words on 5 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Bwesigye Bwa Mesigire’s reflections on Ben Okri’s headline event for the 2015 Africa Writes Festival form part of our #PastAndPresent weekend of re-posts of coverage of the festival over the years (from 2013-2018). The full timetable of our… Read More ›

• 2014 Africa Writes #P&P – What space is there for African travel writing? ‘Broadening the Gaze’

  By Africa in Words on 5 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Rebecca Jones was at the 2014 Africa Writes Festival in London. We republish her coverage of the African & Diaspora Travel Writing panel here as part of our Africa Writes #PastAndPresent weekender, anticipating the online conversations of the… Read More ›

• 2013 Africa Writes #P&P – Q&A: Poet, writer and educator Warsan Shire

  By Africa in Words on 5 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: this republication of a 2013 in-depth (long) and rich (vibrantly so) conversation between poet and activist Warsan Shire and Katie Reid of AiW marks the first post in our second day of Africa Writes #Past&Present revisits over this… Read More ›

• 2018 Africa Writes #P&P – Building an Archive – Voices from the Panel “Loving Womxn: Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing”

  By Africa in Words on 4 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: this review of the panel ‘Loving Womxn’ at the 2018 Africa Writes Festival in London is part of our #Past&Present revisits of our coverage of the festival over the years, in the run-up to the digital conversations of… Read More ›

• 2016 Africa Writes #P&P Highlight Reel – ‘On Being a Woman Writer: Nawal El Saadawi’

  By Africa in Words on 4 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: As part of our Africa Writes #PastAndPresent weekend, and in the absence of the in-person festival in 2020, this highlight reel marks the headline event at Africa Writes 2016, “On Being a Woman Writer: Nawal El Saadawi in… Read More ›

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