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• Q&As: Rachel Zadok from Short Story Day Africa- Publisher, AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022

  By Africa in Words on 12 July , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Last week, as part of our annual AKO Caine Prize coverage, we ran Guest reviews of the 5 stories shortlisted for the 2022 award. This week, and leading up to the winner announcement on Monday 18 July, we are very… Read More ›

• Q&As: Hannah Giorgis – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022

  By Africa in Words on 11 July , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Last week, as part of our annual AKO Caine Prize coverage, we ran Guest reviews of the 5 stories shortlisted for the award. This week, and leading up to the winner announcement on Monday 18 July, we are very pleased… Read More ›

• Q&As: Akashic Books’ Johanna Ingalls – Publisher, AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022

  By Africa in Words on 11 July , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Last week, as part of our annual AKO Caine Prize coverage, we ran Guest reviews of the 5 stories shortlisted for the award. This week, and leading up to the winner announcement on Monday 18 July, we are very pleased… Read More ›

• The illusion of choice: a review of “Five Years Next Sunday” by Idza Luhumyo – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022 reviews

  By Africa in Words Guest on 8 July , 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest: Yamikani Mlangiza (Malawi) AiW note: Today’s post is the fifth in our annual guest reviews of the 2022 AKO Caine Prize 5 shortlisted stories. We’ll also be publishing Q&As with the shortlisted authors and, as in our previous years… Read More ›

• “Sacks tied around our necks”: Joshua Chizoma’s ‘Collector of Memories’ – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022 reviews

  By Africa in Words Guest on 7 July , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Innocent Akilimale Ngulube (Malawi) AiW note: The penultimate in our annual guest reviews of the 2022 AKO Caine Prize 5 shortlisted stories runs today. We’ll also be publishing Q&As with authors and others working with this year’s Prize,… Read More ›

• ‘Till Death Do Us Part’: A Review of ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’ by Nana-Ama Danquah – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022 reviews

  By Africa in Words Guest on 6 July , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Joseph Kwanya (Kenya) Today’s post is the third of our annual guest reviews of the 5 stories shortlisted for the award in 2022. We’ll also be running Q&As with authors and others working with this year’s Prize, all… Read More ›

• The glue that binds: Hannah Giorgis’ “A Double-Edged Inheritance” – AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022 reviews

  By Africa in Words Guest on 5 July , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Megan Brune (South Africa) AiW note: we’ve been holding a series of critical conversations around the work of the Caine Prize, now the AKO Caine Prize, each year since we first joined its “blogathon carnival” back in 2013…. Read More ›

• Victims and Prey: The Agency of the Body Merchants in Billie McTernan’s “The Labadi Sunshine Bar”- AKO Caine Prize shortlist 2022 reviews

  By Africa in Words Guest on 4 July , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Nnaemeka Ezema (Nigeria) AiW note: we’ve been holding a series of critical conversations around the work of the Caine Prize, now the AKO Caine Prize, each year since we first joined its “blogathon carnival” back in 2013. Today… Read More ›

• Q&A – Ayo Oyeku Words on the Times

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 April , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Today we bring you an inspiring Words on the Times – a Q&A series initiated to connect up our experiences of life and work as the pandemic hit – with writer and publisher Ayo Oyeku. Ayo Oyeku is a… Read More ›

• Review: “An Odyssean coming-of-age” – A Long Way from Douala by Max Lobe

  By Ellen Addis on 31 March , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Max Lobe was born in Douala, Cameroon. Last year marked the first publication in English translation of A Long Way from Douala (HopeRoad and Small Axes 2021, translated by Ros Schwartz), a novel which tackles important issues such as… Read More ›

• Review Q&A: Max Lobe – On translation and his colourful Cameroonian novel, A Long Way from Douala

  By Ellen Addis on 31 March , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note:  Last year marked the first publication in English translation of Max Lobe’s novel A Long Way from Douala (HopeRoad – Small Axes 2021), translated by Ros Schwartz. Important issues of violence, terrorism, homosexuality and migration feature in A Long… Read More ›

• Q&A: Scholar-activist Kadija Sesay, on AfriPoeTree

  By Davina Philomena Kawuma on 23 March , 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW note: In 2016, writer, editor, academic, and publisher Kadija Sesay developed the ‘Modern Pan-Africanist’s Journey’ app as part of the Research and Development funding (UK) that she received from Arts Council England, for her second poetry book of the… Read More ›

• Q&A: On the NLNG Prize for Literary Criticism – Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè talks with 2020/21 prize winner, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike

  By Africa in Words Guest on 15 March , 2022 • ( 1 )

  

   AiW Guests: Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè and NLNG Prize for Literary Criticism winner 2020/2021, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike. AiW note: We are very pleased to be able to share this conversation between writers and literary journalists, particularly for Adégòkè’s focus in on some… Read More ›

• Calls for & Opportunities… roundup of January 2022

  By Africa in Words on 9 February , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Here’s our first catch up of 2022 with a selection of “calls for” posts – shout outs for opportunities and contributions – academic and creative – collated primarily from our Twitter feed for this one… Do get in touch and… Read More ›

• Q&A – iwalewabooks Words on the Times

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 January , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Today we bring you an inspiring Words on the Times – a Q&A series initiated to connect up our experiences of life and work as the pandemic hit – with the publishing house iwalewabooks. iwalewabooks is a publishing… Read More ›

• Q&A: Dr. Emmanuel E. Akanwa Interviews Gil Ndi-Shang on his newest collection, The Radio and Other Stories

  By Africa in Words Guest on 21 January , 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  With AiW Guests: Emmanuel E. Akanwa and Gil Ndi-Shang. AiW note: The Radio and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Cameroonian writer, Gil Ndi-Shang, recently released with Spears Books. “In The Radio and Other Stories, the scholar and the… Read More ›

• Calls for & Opportunities… roundup of November’s (2021)

  By Africa in Words on 7 December , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Here’s our catch up with a monthly selection of “calls for” posts, for opportunities and contributions – academic and creative – that we’ve also been collating from various platforms we visit and revisit, and across our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram…. Read More ›

• Q&A with Marius Roux, GBAS Book Cover Design Award Finalist

  By Africa in Words on 30 November , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Ahead of the announcement of the winner of the GBAS Book Cover Design Awards tomorrow, December 1st, we have been able to catch up with two of the finalists, Casper Schutte and Marius Roux. We asked them some… Read More ›

• Q&A: Casper Schutte, GBAS Book Cover Design Award Finalist

  By Africa in Words on 30 November , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Ahead of the announcement of the winner of the GBAS Book Cover Design Awards tomorrow, December 1st, we have been able to catch up with two of the finalists, Casper Schutte and Marius Roux. We asked them some… Read More ›

• “Our discomfort, my discomfort”: a review of ‘Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global City’.

  By Africa in Words Guest on 12 November , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Kagiso Nko. It is part of how Joburg narrates itself, in particular to itself. Editors’ Introduction – Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden. AiW note: This review of Anxious Joburg (Wits UP) was completed before our accompanying Review… Read More ›

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