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• Remembering Olive Schreiner 100 Years After Her Death

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

  

  AiW Guest: Jade Munslow Ong. AiW note: The 11th of December 2020 marks 100 years since Olive Schreiner’s death. Here, Jade Munslow Ong discusses Schreiner’s legacies as a pioneering feminist, anti-colonialist and author of the first South African novel.  100… Read More ›

• Review: Stephen Embleton’s “Soul Searching”

  By JoannaWoods on 8 December , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “The untapped knowledge on his doorstep in southern Africa was a continual source for honing his skills, and no amount of online reading and searching could replace face-to-face experiences with the people out in the dry Kalahari or the slippery… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times– Francis Nyamnjoh and Kathryn Toure from Langaa RPCIG

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

  

  AiW note: To celebrate the past thirty years of independent distributing and bookselling at African Books Collective (ABC), we are running a series highlighting the wonderful work of those who make up ABC. We will be talking to some of… Read More ›

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

  By Africa in Words on 3 December , 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’ we haven’t had out already on the site – news on AiW’s radar, collated from across our social… Read More ›

• Q&A: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike interviews Abubakar Adam Ibrahim about his latest collection “Dreams and Assorted Nightmares” (2020)

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

  

  AiW note: Dreams and Assorted Nightmares is Ibrahim’s third book and second story collection, newly released with Masobe Books. In the interview below, Umezurike and Ibrahim discuss the interconnecting fantastical short stories of the collection, their exploration of the “spaces… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times– Nick Mulgrew, founder & director of uHlanga Press

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 November , 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  AiW note: To celebrate the past thirty years of independent distributing and bookselling at African Books Collective (ABC), we are running a series highlighting the wonderful work of those who make up ABC. We will be talking to some of… Read More ›

• Q&A Words on the Times, Outriders Africa: Emmanuel Iduma

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

  

  Today we have the pleasure of sharing our final post in the Words on the Times, Outriders Africa series with Nigerian writer Emmanuel Iduma, with an excerpt from his travelogue A Stranger’s Pose. Iduma was born in Akure, Nigeria and… Read More ›

• A Review of ‘Nairobi Noir’, a collection of short stories edited by Peter Kimani

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

  

  AiW Guest: Maëline Le Lay. Initially published by Akashic Books, the New York publisher of Kenyan novelist and journalist Peter Kimani (author of the highly regarded Dance of the Jakaranda), this collection of short stories complements the rich collection of “noir”… Read More ›

• Q&A: “We are happiest when we are representing publishers who want their books to be read” in conversation with Justin Cox, African Books Collective

  By Africa in Words Guest on 17 November , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Justin Cox is the CEO of African Books Collective (ABC). ABC is an African owned, worldwide marketing and distribution outlet publishing books from Africa. It began trading in 1989 as a self-help initiative by a group of seventeen… Read More ›

• Q&A Words on the Times, Outriders Africa: Wanjiru Koinange

  By Africa in Words Guest on 13 November , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Today, we have the pleasure of sharing a Words on the Times, Outriders Africa with Kenyan writer Wanjiru Koinange, with an excerpt from her novel The Havoc of Choice. Wanjiru was raised on a farm on the outskirts of Nairobi,… Read More ›

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

  By Africa in Words on 11 November , 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 social media… News Click to jump to: Festivals, Fairs,… Read More ›

• Here’s My Body, Take it! A Review of Romeo Oriogun’s ‘A Sacrament of Bodies’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 9 November , 2020 • ( 3 )

  

  AiW Guest: Tikondwe Kaphagawani Chimkowola. Romeo Oriogun’s Sacrament of Bodies (2020) opens with a quote from Kazim Ali that mourns, “in one place everyone looks like me – has my name – I am the most foreign”. This longing for… Read More ›

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

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

  

  AiW Guest: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike 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… 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 Guest 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 Guest 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 Guest 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 Guest 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.

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