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• Q&A: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike interviews Ukamaka Olisakwe, author of “Ogadinma” (2020).

  By Africa in Words on 3 November , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Ukamaka Olisakwe’s Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right was released with Indigo Press in September and from Masobe Books on the 27th October this year – marking itself as a “feminist classic in the making” (Indigo). Here, Uchechukwu… Read More ›

• Creative Times “in the making”: unfolding the Keiskamma COVID-19 Tapestry of Resilience

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

  

  AiW note: Posts over 5 days this week, have introduced the epic endeavour of the Keiskamma COVID-19 Resilience Tapestry being made by the Keiskamma Art Project in the rural hamlet of Hamburg, South Africa, through the place, the people –… Read More ›

• Creative Times & Living Testimonies (3): “Changing everything” – Keiskamma artists on life, work, and the COVID-19 Tapestry of Resilience

  By Africa in Words on 29 October , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: This week, we have been following and introducing the stories behind the Keiskamma COVID-19 Resilience Tapestry, an epic, ambitious response to the pandemic made by the Keiskamma Art Project in the rural hamlet of Hamburg, South Africa. As… Read More ›

• Creative Times & Living Testimonies (2): “Connections are Strength” – Keiskamma artists on the COVID-19 Tapestry of Resilience

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

  

  AiW note: Yesterday, as part of our Keiskamma COVID-19 Resilience Tapestry series, we introduced four artists from Keiskamma, leading on from Monday’s introduction to the work, which is currently underway. Today, in the second of our “meetings” posts with the… Read More ›

• Creative Times & Living testimonies (1): Keiskamma artists on life and work, and the COVID-19 Tapestry of Resilience

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

  

  AiW note: Our posts, running over 5 days this week, introduce the Keiskamma COVID-19 Resilience Tapestry through the place, the people – its makers – and their history. The ambitious tapestry, responding to the pandemic, is being made by the… Read More ›

• Creative Times & A Season of Regeneration: Keiskamma Art Project’s Tapestry of Resilience – A Preface

  By Africa in Words on 26 October , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: The Keiskamma Art Project, in the rural hamlet of Hamburg, South Africa, is embarking on an ambitious tapestry in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The next five posts will introduce the Keiskamma COVID-19 Resilience Tapestry through the place,… Read More ›

• Q&A Words on the Times, Outriders Africa: Donna Obaseki-Ogunnaike

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

  

  Today, we are delighted to share a Words on the Times, Outriders Africa with Donna Obaseki-Ogunnaike – an Energy Law expert, speaker, humanivist ©, poet, writer and theatre practitioner, previously dubbed the ‘queen of spoken word poetry in Nigeria’ –… Read More ›

• The Fragile Beauty of Mangaliso Buzani’s “A Naked Bone”

  By Tom Penfold on 21 October , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In 2019, Mangaliso Buzani’s A Naked Bone won the African Poetry Book Fund’s Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry. In a subsequent interview published in Africa in Dialogue, Buzani recalls how, upon hearing the news, he quicky phoned fellow poet and New Brighton resident, Mxolisi Nyezwa. This phone call is one that is particularly apt because when you read A Naked Bone there is, hidden within Buzani’s remarkable and dreamlike poetry, a touch of Nyezwa. There is a fragile sort of beauty that poignantly captures a deeply personal suffering.

• Q&A Words on the Times, Outriders Africa: Nadine Aisha Jassat

  By Africa in Words on 19 October , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Outriders Africa, a project announced at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2019, builds on the existing ambitious Outriders concept, exploring “the idea that in shifting, disorienting times, a writer can make a unique contribution to our understanding… Read More ›

• African Jim: A Review of Christopher Mlalazi’s ‘The Border Jumper’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 13 October , 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Thulani Angoma-Mzini. In The Border Jumper (2019), Christopher Mlalazi upends the “Jim comes to Joburg” trope about the trafficking of rural dreams in a big city. Mlalazi has created a grimy, high-speed chase, shoot-‘em-up style novel written with… Read More ›

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

  By Africa in Words on 6 October , 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 ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times with Ivan Vladislavic on “The Distance”

  By Africa in Words on 2 October , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

    South African novelist Vladislavić delivers a moving, closely observed study in family dynamics in a time of apartheid…Vladislavić’s tale unfolds with grace and precision. A memorable, beautifully written story of love and loss. — Kirkus, Starred Review Ivan Vladislavić’s latest… Read More ›

• Review: The collector as compulsive mythologist – Wole Soyinka’s “Beyond Aesthetics”.

  By Africa in Words on 29 September , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Joseph Oduro-Frimpong. AiW note: With his review of Wole Soyinka’s book, Beyond Aesthetics: Use, Abuse, and Dissonance in African Art Traditions – “an intimate reflection on culture and tradition, creativity and power, that draws on a lifetime’s commitment to… Read More ›

• Celebrating ‘The Decade Project’ with Brittle Paper: 10 AiW African Literary Cultural Faves

  By Africa in Words on 24 September , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Literary blog and archiving platform Brittle Paper turns 10 this year! Happy birthday BP! This month we take up their invitation to join their celebrations in their #DecadeProject with a post marking the last ten years as a significant decade… Read More ›

• Words on Teaching – Joanna Woods and Nicklas Hållén

  By Africa in Words on 18 September , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: In our “Teaching” focus as part of our “Words on…” series, we’re thinking around print culture – books, images, texts, mags, spaces – and broad senses of what “teaching” might be, do, mean, or how it might produce… Read More ›

• Q&A: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike interviews Prof. Chielozona Eze

  By Africa in Words on 15 September , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike. In another of the in-depth conversations offered to us from AiW guest and friend Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Chielozona Eze discusses his work in ethics and literary study — particularly in relation to the uses to… Read More ›

• Q&A: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike with Prof. Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi

  By Africa in Words on 10 September , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike. Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Department of English at North Carolina State University. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in African literature, postcolonial literary and cultural studies,… Read More ›

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

  By Africa in Words on 1 September , 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 ›

• Q&A: “Ceremony is always imbued with sound”: Composer Peter Adjaye on soundscaping Toyin Ojih Odutola’s ‘A Countervailing Theory’

  By Ellen Addis on 27 August , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Peter Adjaye is a contemporary conceptual sound artist, specialising in cross disciplinary collaborations. He is a musicologist, composer, DJ-producer and musician. His unique set of skills and vast experience have enabled him to work closely with his brother, the award-winning… Read More ›

• The Treachery of Words: A Review of ‘Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu?’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 25 August , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Thulani Angoma-Mzini In the anthology Black Tax: Burden or Ubuntu (2019), award winning author Niq Mhlongo convenes a parliament of the who’s who of South African literati to dissect the term ‘black tax’. In South Africa the term… Read More ›

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