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• Q&As: Yvonne Kusiima – Caine Prize shortlist 2023

  By Africa in Words on 31 October , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Continuing our new Words on… Q&A series, this week, we are publishing a range of interviews around the UK-based short story award, the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2023. There have been a few notable firsts that have… Read More ›

• Q&As: Ukamaka Olisakwe – Publishing the Caine Prize shortlist 2023

  By Africa in Words on 31 October , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Continuing our new Words on… Q&A series, this week, we are publishing a range of interviews around the UK-based short story award, the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2023. There have been a few notable firsts that have… Read More ›

• Words on… Poetry Africa, with Lethu Nkwanyana, South African Slam Champion 2023

  By Africa in Words on 18 October , 2023 • ( 1 )

  

  Poetry Africa announces the South Africa Poetry Slam Champion on Instagram. AiW note: This post in the “Words on… Poetry Africa” Q&A series is brought to you in collaboration with the Poetry Africa festival 2023, and is with the Festival’s… Read More ›

• Words on… Poetry Africa 2023, with Indigene ‘Gene’ Corefio

  By Africa in Words on 10 October , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: This marks the latest in our new “Words on… Poetry Africa” Q&A series, brought to you in collaboration with the Poetry Africa festival 2023, which is running this year across 3 cities (Johannesburg, Durban, Bloemfontein) from the 5th… Read More ›

• Words on… Poetry Africa 2023, with Solly Ramatswi, aka Soetry

  By Africa in Words on 9 October , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: This is the second in our new “Words on…” Q&A series in collaboration with Poetry Africa 2023.  Taking place from the 5th to the 17th October, this year across the three South African cities (Johannesburg, Durban and Bloemfontein),… Read More ›

• Words on… Poetry Africa 2023, with Featured Poet, Eugene Skeef

  By Africa in Words on 7 October , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: We’re delighted to share a range of new “Words on…” Q&As in collaboration with Poetry Africa. The 5th October marked the start of this year’s, the 27th, Poetry Africa festival: Poetry Africa is an annual international poetry festival curated… Read More ›

• Spotlight on… Die Antwoord: the artifice of art, the art of artifice

  By Africa in Words Guest on 25 August , 2023 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest: Sanya Osha …with a longer form read for us, at around 2.5k words… The recent ‘cancellation’ of Die Antwoord – the South African ‘zef’ subculture-proclaiming, alternative hip hop duo – and their subsequent withdrawal from the public eye,… Read More ›

• Q&A / Calls for… Nozipho Wabatagore and ‘Queer Africa: Resilience and Hopeful Now’

  By Africa in Words on 10 August , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: this is the first in a welcome return for us at AiW to posts in the “Calls for…” category – calling for submissions to events, collections, issues, awards, all and sundries, etc. – in this case, for creative… Read More ›

• Review: Between Self and Selflessness in Protest – ‘Taduno’s Song’ by Odafe Atogun

  By Africa in Words Guest on 28 July , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè. Odafe Atogun’s début novel, Taduno’s Song (2016), is an extended allegory about a people living through the tangle of social oppression and its attendant anxieties. Through a focus on music, specifically voice and song, it explores… Read More ›

• Q&A: Serawit Bekele Debele —Literatures of the Horn of Africa, a conversation series

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 July , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guests Interviewers: Farida Elshafei, Ilana Graham, Lauryn Jenkins, Noha Choudhry. Interviewee: Serawit Bekele Debele. Interview Date: 14th December 2021 AiW note: This is one in a series of interviews carried out by undergraduate students as part of the module… Read More ›

• Reviews: ‘The porousness of cultural boundaries’ — Thoughts on the publication of Karin Barber’s A History African Popular Culture (2018)

  By Africa in Words Guest on 15 June , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Pernille Nailor. AiW note: this is one of two linked reviews of Emeritus Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham, Karin Barber’s latest book, A History of African Popular Culture (2018, Cambridge UP), with our thanks… Read More ›

• Reviews: ‘Everyday life’ — Karin Barber’s A History of African Popular Culture (2018)

  By Africa in Words Guest on 15 June , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Elizabeth Olayiwola. AiW note: This is one of two linked reviews of Emeritus Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham, Karin Barber’s latest book, A History of African Popular Culture (2018, Cambridge UP), with our thanks… Read More ›

• Q&A: Eyob Derillo– Literatures of the Horn of Africa, a conversation series

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

  

  AiW Guests Interviewers: Jiali Chen, Josephine Stanton, George Ackerley, Natalia Bielecka Interviewee: Eyob Derillo Interview date: 12 January 2022. AiW note: This is one in a series of interviews carried out by undergraduate students as part of the module “Ethiopian,… Read More ›

• Review: The Renegade Poet, ‘Femi Morgan, coming through ‘The Year of Fire’

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

  

  AiW Guest: Ugochukwu Anadị. ‘Femi Morgan’s most recent collection The Year of Fire (Baron’s Cafe, 2021) is a poetry of lamentations, of anger, and of defiant resilience. Forming itself around (re)negotiations, of the self and space, the slim volume of… Read More ›

• Q&A: Professor Ghirmai Negash – Literatures of the Horn of Africa, a conversation series

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

  

  AiW Guests Interviewers: Mollie McGing, Julia Karpinska, Abolaji Oshun, Alsadiq Suliman Interviewee: Ghirmai Negash Interview Date: 14th December 2021. AiW note: This is one in a series of interviews carried out by undergraduate students as part of the module “Ethiopian,… Read More ›

• Q&A: Dr Fiori Berhane – Literatures of the Horn of Africa, a conversation series

  By Africa in Words Guest on 26 April , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guests  Interviewers: Emily Bhanu, Madeleine Butler, Madeeha Sharief, Eleanor Walker Interviewee: Dr Fiori Berhane Interview Date: 7th January 2022. AiW note: This is one in a series of interviews carried out by undergraduate students as part of the module… Read More ›

• Review Q&A: Ayaan Mohamud with her World Book Night listed YA novel, You Think You Know Me.

  By Africa in Words on 22 April , 2023 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW note: This year, Sunday 23rd April is World Book Night. Running over the evening of the UNESCO International Day of the Book— whose theme this year is indigenous languages — World Book Night is a UK-sprung celebration of reading… Read More ›

• Review and Q&A: Leila Aboulela’s ‘River Spirit’ – Rewriting the Footnotes of Sudanese Colonial History

  By Ellen Addis on 13 April , 2023 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW note: AiW editor Ellen Addis reviews Leila Aboulela’s novel, River Spirit (Saqi Books), a historical fiction narrative which takes place in 1880s Sudan and tracks the rise of the Mahdist Revolution. Accompanying the review today is Ellen’s Q&A with… Read More ›

• Q&A: Professor Nadia Nurhussein – Literatures of the Horn of Africa, a conversation series

  By Africa in Words Guest on 22 March , 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guests Interviewers: Kyra Webb, Sophia Dermetzis and Kal Harris Interviewee: Professor Nadia Nurhussein Interview Date: 7th December 2021.  AiW note: This is one in a series of interviews, carried out by undergraduate students as part of the module “Ethiopian,… Read More ›

• Words on… Revisiting the Afritondo Short Story Prize – #PastAndPresent

  By Africa in Words on 11 March , 2023 • ( 2 )

  

  A #PnP through which we look back to our 2022 archives, focusing on the short story prize and prizing African writing. We take the leading footprints of Davina Kawuma‘s writer-reader, reader-writer review of Afritondo’s inaugural short story prize anthology, Yellow… Read More ›

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