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• 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 ›

• Q&A: “No matter what, art and creativity can still shine through”: Words on the Times with Poda-Poda Stories’s Ngozi Cole

  By Africa in Words on 20 August , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Poda-Poda Stories is a digital platform and literary journal that gathers rich stories from Sierra Leone and the Sierra Leonean diaspora, founded by Ngozi Cole in 2019. The name “Poda-Poda Stories” comes from Cole’s high school days where she travelled… Read More ›

• Where were the women? East African writing and the 1962 Makerere Conference.

  By Africa in Words Guest on 18 August , 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest: Anna Adima. The post-independence period in Kenya and Uganda is renowned for its burgeoning literature production. Uganda was the hub for these literary creativities in the 1960s, largely thanks to the English Department at Makerere University in Kampala,… Read More ›

• Review: Physicality and Distortion in Dolla Sapeta’s ‘Skeptical Erections’

  By Tom Penfold on 11 August , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Mxolisi Dolla Sapeta is perhaps best known for his work as an artist and sculptor. In 2019, he made his literary debut with his first collection of poems, Skeptical Erections, published by Deep South. Reading Skeptical Erections makes it quickly… Read More ›

• Q&A: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike interviews Prof. Cajetan Iheka

  By Africa in Words on 7 August , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Cajetan Iheka is Associate Professor of English in the Department of English at Yale University, United States. In the following conversation with Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike – PhD Candidate and Vanier Scholar in the English and Film Studies department of the… Read More ›

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

  By Africa in Words on 4 August , 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… Read More ›

• Words on the Times | #PastAndPresent: Revisiting Kólá Túbòsún and Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike in conversation

  By Africa in Words on 31 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: After our post on the poetry collection Edwardsville by Heart, reviewed for us yesterday by Tade Ipadeola,we are delighted to be able to share Words on the Times with the book’s author, Kọlá Túbọsún, and Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike,… Read More ›

• Review: A Sojourner’s Tale – Kola Tubosun’s ‘Edwardsville by Heart’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 30 July , 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Tade Ipadeola. “Light tornado alert tonight at Edwardsville. Stay indoors please, when you hear storm alerts!” a text said. ‘Tornado’, p.33 We look out for the traveler’s tale especially. They bear that extra flavour of the road not… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times & theatre in the digital space – Walter Kahuma of Tebere Arts Foundation shares his thoughts on theatre and creativity in 2020

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

  

  Tebere Arts Foundation is an innovative theatre and performance-arts organization that was founded in Uganda in 2018. Creating collaborative new theatre with artists and supporting artistic platforms across Eastern Africa, Tebere Arts pushes the boundaries of theatre-making by bridging the… Read More ›

• Caine Prize 2020 – “There’s been a lot of kindness and even rediscovery of a sense of community”: Words on the Times with the shortlisted writers.

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

  

  Ahead of the announcement of the AKO Caine Prize’s winner today at 5pm BST, we were able to catch up with Erica Sugo Anyadike, Chikodili Emelumadu, Jowhor Ile, Rémy Ngamije for their Words on the Times – an AiW Q&A set inspired… Read More ›

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