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• Spotlight Q&A: Editors & Writers talk – Ucheoma Onwutuebe’s ‘Where Are You and Where Is My Money’, with Lydia Mathis

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 January , 2025 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guests: Ucheoma Onwutuebe and Lydia Mathis. AiW note: what follows is an email conversation between Nigerian writer Ucheoma Onwutuebe and 2023 Editorial Fellow at New York based literary magazine A Public Space, Lydia Mathis, held in October 2023. With… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on… SCOLMA, the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa

  By Africa in Words on 22 November , 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  With AiW Guests, SCOLMA committee members: Ben Carson, Liz Haines, Jenni Skinner, and Charles Fonge. AiW exchanged our Words On… Q&A with SCOLMA committee members on the launch of their recent video series on YouTube, ‘African Studies in the Digital… Read More ›

• Review: The Social Eyes on Women, Motherhood, and their Being in Elizabeth Allua Vaah’s ‘Maame’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 15 November , 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Tikondwe Chimkowola-Kadaluka. Elizabeth Allua Vaah’s Maame (Mawenzi House, 2020) is not just another clichéd tale about motherhood. Rather, it ties together a myriad of issues, with a special focus on how motherhood can be experienced variously in Ghana…. Read More ›

• Review: Bound to be Re-Read? ‘Bound to Violence’ – a Penguin Modern Classic for 2024

  By Africa in Words Guest on 25 October , 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Le Devoir de Violence / Bound to Violence, by Malian writer Yambo Ouologuem was republished earlier this year as a Penguin Modern Classic, a series of books self-defined as “shaping the reading habits of generations since 1961.” 

• Q&A: Kakizi Jemima, curator – Fierce Femmes: Rwandan Women Contemporary Artists

  By Africa in Words on 26 June , 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Kakizi Jemima is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. She has curated exhibitions in Rwanda and Switzerland, worked on art projects with UNICEF Rwanda, the Rwanda Art Museum, Girl Effect, Goethe Institute, and Creative Action Institute, and exhibited her work in… Read More ›

• Review: Ways of Travelling – Kharys Ateh Laue’s ‘Sketches’ (2023)

  By Africa in Words Guest on 24 May , 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Kris Van der Bijl. Kharys Ateh Laue’s debut prose work Sketches (MDL SEE, 2023) is recognisably a travelogue. In it, a South African protagonist-narrator travels across three countries, accompanied by her friend, Raph. Like most travelogues, it utilizes… Read More ›

• Q&A: Koleka Putuma – Revolutionising the archive and (backspace) dancing… ‘Hullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come in’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 8 May , 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guests: Koleka Putuma Interviewed by: Siobhan Bahl, Freya Moulton and Tessa Rhodes On 22 February, 2022 “This is what it is, or what it was, this is the evolution of it all…” Koleka Putuma is an esteemed South African… Read More ›

• Archives spotlight – Past & Present: Maryse Condé – ‘Segu’ and ‘The History of the Cannibal Woman’

  By Africa in Words on 25 April , 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Our #PastAndPresent archive dip today spotlights writer Maryse Condé (11 February 1934 – 2 April 2024), as her work and legacy is threaded through our archive posts. Two ‘couplets’ of reference emerge, set into conversation with each other as they… Read More ›

• Review: Connection and Legacy – Remembering ‘Before Them, We’ (2022) 

  By Africa in Words Guest on 29 February , 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Virginia Kelly Before Them, We (flipped eye, London, 2022) is a beautiful anthology of poems and collection of photographs curated by Ruth Sutoyé and Jacob Sam-La Rose. Part of a longer interdisciplinary project to excavate the lives and… Read More ›

• Words on…Past & Present: The International Black Speculative Writing Festival (London & Remote)

  By Africa in Words on 29 January , 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Just under a week to go, with the last chance saloon doors swinging, we are dipping in to our archives: this AiW #PastAndPresent post may look back but has our sights set firmly forward to the Digital Festival Day (04… Read More ›

• Q&A: Publishing roundtable – #ReadingAfricaWeek

  By Africa in Words on 6 December , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guests: Maureen Masamba, Azafi Omoluabi, Goretti Kyomuhendo, and Mutesi Gasana, with Jessica Powers. As part of this year’s #ReadingAfricaWeek, in the second part of this publishing series with Africa in Words, Catalyst Press publisher Jessica Powers interviewed four women… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on… e-Kitabu – the Rights Café, Nairobi International Book Fair

  By Africa in Words on 24 November , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: With thanks to Catalyst Press who have worked with us to bring you this twinned Q&A… “With increasing global focus on African writing, this new initiative aims to open networks on the continent and to get African writing… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on… Ambassadors at the Rights Café, Nairobi International Book Fair

  By Africa in Words on 24 November , 2023 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW note: With thanks to Catalyst Press who have worked with us to bring you this twinned Q&A… “With increasing global focus on African writing, this new initiative aims to open networks on the continent and to get African writing… Read More ›

• Review: Tragedy and Resilience in Lagos – The Truth About Sadia by Lola Akande 

  By Africa in Words Guest on 10 November , 2023 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Ademola Adesola. Lola Akande’s latest novel, The Truth about Sadia (Tunmike Publishers, 2023), follows Sadia Onaolapo Oyelowo’s journey from childhood to adulthood. Set in a recognizable Lagos, Nigeria, so crucial is Sadia to the novel that every “truth”… Read More ›

• Q&As: Mame Bougouma Diene and Woppa Diallo – Caine Prize shortlist 2023 – winners

  By Africa in Words on 3 November , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Today is the last in our series of twinned Caine Prize shortlist 2023 interviews we have been running through the week. A month ago yesterday, on the 2nd October, Senegalese entrant, ‘A Soul of Small Places’ , by… Read More ›

• Q&As: Jendella Benson – Judging the Caine Prize 2023

  By Africa in Words on 3 November , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Today marks the last day in the series of twinned Caine Prize shortlist 2023 interviews we have been running through the week. A month ago yesterday, on the 2nd October, Senegalese entrant Woppa Diallo & Mame Bougouma Diene’s… Read More ›

• Q&As: Tlotlo Tsamaase – Caine Prize shortlist 2023

  By Africa in Words on 2 November , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: The penultimate day in our continuing Words on… Q&A series this week – a range of interviews around the UK-based short story award, the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2023 – sees writer Tlotlo Tsamaase (Botswana) talk with… Read More ›

• Q&As: Eli Goldman (Editor) – Publishing the Caine Prize shortlist 2023

  By Africa in Words on 2 November , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: This is the penultimate day in our continuing Words on… Q&A series this week, a range of interviews around the shortlist for UK-based short story award, the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2023. In the lead up to… Read More ›

• Q&As: Yejide Kilanko – Caine Prize shortlist 2023

  By Africa in Words on 1 November , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: We’re going into day 2 in our continuing  Words on… Q&A series this week, publishing a range of interviews around the UK-based short story award, the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2023. A few firsts have re-shaped the… Read More ›

• Q&As: Kadija George Sesay – Judging the Caine Prize 2023

  By Africa in Words on 1 November , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: We’re into day 2 in our continuing  Words on… Q&A series this week, publishing a range of interviews around the UK-based short story award, the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2023. A few firsts have re-shaped the Prize… Read More ›

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