Africa Writes will be back for its 2017 edition at The British Library from Friday 30 June to Sunday 2 July. We are looking for volunteers who are passionate about African literature and would like to be a part of the… Read More ›
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Event: Africa Writes, 1-3 July 2016, London
Africa Writes is the Royal African Society’s annual literature festival. Celebrating its 5th year, Africa Writes 2016 will bring together over 50 authors, poets, publishers and experts for a stimulating and exciting three days! Every year the festival showcases established… Read More ›
A Question of Power: Ben Okri’s “Meditations on Greatness” at Africa Writes
AiW Guest Réhab Abdelghany I first saw Ben Okri in a photograph that the Africa Centre had sent me back in 2000 to accompany an interview with the first Caine Prize winner, Leila Aboulela, which I published later in Egypt. In… Read More ›
Africa Writes, 3 – 5 July 2015, British Library
Africa Writes – the Royal African Society’s annual literature and book festival promoting contemporary African writing – returns to The British Library. Africa Writes 2015 will bring together over 70 authors, poets, publishers, critics and experts for an exciting three-day programme, including… Read More ›
Q&A with author and Africa Writes guest Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
In advance of Africa Writes 2015, festival guest Abubakar Adam Ibrahim talks to AiW author Emma Shercliff about love, romance and the gendered nature of reading and writing in Northern Nigeria. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim will appear in two events during… Read More ›
Africa Writes 2015 – Call for Volunteers (deadline Monday!)
The Royal African Society is looking for volunteers with a passion for African literature to help run Africa Writes, which returns for its fourth year running! About us Africa Writes is an annual festival organised by the Royal African Society,… Read More ›
Africa Travels, Africa Writes. Notes on African Intellectual Mobilities.
AiW guests: Janet Remmington and Nicklas Hållén Typically Africa has been framed as a destination, not source, of travellers. Also it has been taken to be the subject, not origin, of texts. Travel and movement of Africans are too often… Read More ›
Books for the Masses? Publishing Genre Fiction in Africa: Africa Writes, 13 July 2014
AiW Guest Emma Shercliff Review of panel discussion with Bibi Bakare-Yusuf of Cassava Republic Press; Valerie Brandes of Jacaranda Books; Verna Wilkins of Tamarind Books and Susan Yearwood, agent and founder of Susan Yearwood Literary Agency. Chaired by Simi Dosekun…. Read More ›
Ama Ata Aidoo in Conversation: Review, Africa Writes
AiW Guest Réhab Abdelghany Last month, the Royal African Society’s annual Africa Writes Festival brought to the UK an audience with the eminent Ghanaian playwright, poet, novelist and academic, Ama Ata Aidoo: a festive event in its own right. Having… Read More ›
Q&A: Madhu Krishnan interviews novelist Okey Ndibe at Africa Writes
AiW Guest: Madhu Krishnan Okey Ndibe was born in Eastern Nigeria in 1960. A novelist, political columnist and essayist, he moved to the United States in 1988 at Chinua Achebe’s invitation, helping to found African Commentary. His critically-acclaimed first novel,… Read More ›
What space is there for African travel writing? ‘Broadening the Gaze’, Africa Writes, 12 July 2014
Opening a panel on travel writing at the Royal Africa Society’s Africa Writes festival in London, panel chair Fatimah Kelleher observed that travel writing has often been a narrow genre in the past, dominated by Western perspectives on the world…. Read More ›
‘Beyond the Novel: Developing Contemporary African Writing’: Review, Africa Writes 2014
Saturday 12th July found me seated in the conference auditorium of the British Library, expectantly awaiting the start of a panel entitled ‘Beyond the Novel: Developing Contemporary African Writing’. Comprising one of the many events scheduled at Africa Writes 2014,… Read More ›
Africa Writes 2014 (11 – 13 July)
Africa Writes Friday 11 – Sunday 13 July 2014 The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB Africa Writes – the Royal African Society’s annual literature and book festival promoting contemporary African writing – returns to The British Library…. Read More ›
‘Diaspora [still] Writes Back’. Africa Writes (RAS).
AiW Guest: Ben Verghese. Africa Writes is the annual literary festival from the Royal African Society – a celebration of contemporary African literature from across the continent and the diaspora, held in early July. Last year (2013), AiW were at the festival covering… Read More ›
Africa in Words at Africa Writes 2013
This weekend all three editors of Africa in Words will be at Africa Writes 2013 in London – an African literature and book festival hosted by the Royal African Society. The festival is hosting some of the most exciting names… Read More ›
Q&A – Anthony Molosi (Botswana): Poetry Africa Words on the Times
AiW Guest: Anthony Molosi.AiW note: In collaboration with Poetry Africa – presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal – we offer here a mini-series of our Words on the Times Q&As, with poets who are… Read More ›
Q&A: Words on the Times – Kikwetu: A Journal of East African Literature
AiW Note: Kikwetu is an annual online literary journal that publishes both new and established writers from East Africa and beyond in English and Swahili. The journal was born out of a Nairobi-based writing group in 2015, and is run… Read More ›
Review: A Reckoning with East Africa’s Colonial Histories – Abdulrazak Gurnah’s ‘Afterlives’
AiW Guest: Florian Stadtler.
German colonial history remains little explored in fiction. Since the 1880s, Kaiser Wilhelm II, grandson of Queen Victoria, had the ambition to secure what was then termed Germany’s ‘Platz and der Sonne’, its place in the sun, Von Bülow’s infamous phrase in praise of Germany’s expansionist colonial policies. In popular historical discourse of German colonialism, attention tends to focus more on Deutsch-Südwestafrika…
List in the African Small Publishers’ Catalogue 2021 (Modjaji Books)
We are pleased to share the news from Modjaji Books that a new edition (the fifth) of the African Small Publishers’ Catalogue is in production and will be available in July 2021. There’s still time and space to list in… Read More ›
A Sense of Africa in The Exploration of Reminiscences: A Review of Limbe to Lagos: Nonfiction From Cameroon and Nigeria
AiW Guest: Kwame Osei-Poku (Ph.D.), University of Ghana. When a collection of stories succeeds in making its readers identify with and care about real issues, triggering sensations of empathy and reinforcing readers’ own reminiscences, we realise the powerful impact of… Read More ›
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