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Q&A – Siphiwo Mahala: Imbiza Journal for African Writing Words on the Times
AiW Guest: Siphiwo Mahala. AIW note: Today we offer a Words on the Times Q&A from Siphiwo Mahala, Editor of Imbiza Journal for African Writing. Our Words on the Times series (available at the link) was initiated in April 2020… Read More ›
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Words on the Times & Call for Entries: Paige Nick, the GBAS Book Cover Design Awards 2021
AiW Guest: Paige Nick. AiW note: today we bring you a combination post ~ a Words on the Times with Paige Nick – founder of The Good Book Appreciation Society, a Book Club on Facebook with over 16,000 members,… Read More ›
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Spotlight on… Ola Rotimi: The Revival of a Humanist
AiW Guest: Sanya Osha.With Osha’s Words on the Times – a Q&A subset inititated to connect us up in our experiences of the pandemic – below… Ola Rotimi is a major Nigerian dramatist who passed away in 2000. Some of… Read More ›
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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 ›
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Q&A – Andriy Lyubka (Ukraine): Poetry Africa Words on the Times
AiW Guest: Andriy Lyubka 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… Read More ›
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Q&A – W.charly (Cameroon): Poetry Africa Words on the Times (en français)
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Q&A – Christine Yohannes (Ethiopia): Poetry Africa Words on the Times
AiW Guest: Christine Yohannes. AiW note: In collaboration with Poetry Africa, we are excited to share the first in a mini-series of Words on the Times Q&As with poets who are participating in the ‘powering up’ and ‘unmuting’ that is… Read More ›
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Introducing Poetry Africa 2021 & AiW Words on the Times…
AiW are excited to share advance news of a mini-series, in collaboration with Poetry Africa 2021, of our Words on the Times Q&A subset – with poets who are participating in the 25th edition of the festival this year. Running… Read More ›
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In other Words… AiW news & wrap for September
Catching up on our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar, collated from across our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. We also continue with our separate sister “Calls for” post as part of our “Other Words” this month,… Read More ›
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Q&A: Words on the Times – TVOTRIBE
AiW Note: We are happy to be able to share here a Q&A with the founder of online writing and creative arts community TVOTRIBE, Victoria Olajide. In 2021, TVOTRIBE celebrated their second anniversary with activities positioned around the theme “The… Read More ›
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Q&A: Words on the Times – Sandra Chege of Hadithi
Dear Reader, When last did you send a loved one a hand-written letter, or go to the post office expecting to receive one? When did you last begin a letter, on paper or in its pre-material compositional stage, and what… Read More ›
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In other Words… AiW news and July-August’s wrap
Catching up on our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar, collated from across our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. This month we are covering news and events across July and August following our short holiday hiatus from… Read More ›
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Q&A: Words on the Times – Eriye Onagoruwa, author of “Dear Alaere”, & Ibiso Graham-Douglas, founder of Paperworth Books Ltd
AiW Note: We are delighted to be able to share here a set of Q&As based around the novel Dear Alaere, published by Paperworth Books in 2020. Both the author, Eriye Onagoruwa, and the book’s publisher and founder of Paperworth… Read More ›
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AiW long read: Caine 2021 – A prize coming of age
AiW Guest: Doseline Kiguru AiW note: As with every year since “Joining the Caine Prize ‘Blog-Carnival’” back in 2013 — Africa in Words has engaged with the AKO Caine Prize for African Writers in the run up to the winner… Read More ›
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Q&A: The New Brighton Art School – Madoda Honi
With AiW Guests: Dolla Sapeta and Madoda Honi. AiW note: A few weeks ago, Africa in Words published the first of our pioneering posts promoting the work of the New Brighton Art School. We sat down with Dolla Sapeta, its founder, to… Read More ›
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Q&A: Words on the Times – author and educator Priscilla Musoki, Gogo Diaries Sweden
AiW note: Gogo Diaries Sweden is run by Zimbabwean author and educationist Priscilla Musoki, bridging the gap she has seen for children in the Diaspora by publishing bilingual books in the pandemic, grounded in a grandmother’s wisdom and love, storytelling… Read More ›
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Q&A: Words on the Times – Mazi Nwonwu of Omenana magazine
AiW note: Omenana is a tri-monthly magazine by Mazi Nwonwu (Co-founder and Managing Editor), Chinelo Onwualu (Co-founder), Iquo DianaAbasi (Contributing Editor), and Godson ChukwuEmeka Okeiyi (Graphic Designer); it is open to submissions from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and… Read More ›
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Review: “What of This Fire, What of Butterflies?” – Yellow Means Stay, the 2020 Afritondo Prize Anthology
13 December , 2022
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Refocusing Le Retour: Three Franco-Senegalese Works
15 November , 2022
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Review: “too much water”? Sarah Lubala’s ‘A History of Disappearance’
1 November , 2022
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Q&A – #ReadingAfrica: African Literary Magazine Editors on Curating for the Continent
8 December , 2022
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Q&A: Mukoma Wa Ngugi – teasing out the Tizita, and probing poetry and prizes
28 September , 2022
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Q&A: George Norman Sylvester – Ananse comics, Captain Pepsodent and African superheroes in 1990s Ghana
6 September , 2022
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Q&A – iwalewabooks Words on the Times
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Q&A – Siphiwo Mahala: Imbiza Journal for African Writing Words on the Times
29 October , 2021