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• They Will Eat Me in Calabar: tales from the front lines of Nigeria’s National Youth Service Corps

  By Rebecca Jones on 8 September , 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  We eventually got to their house, where I was introduced to a middle-aged women. They all spoke in Efik, I did not understand them. So I became more afraid, thinking that they were planning to eat me. The woman asked… Read More ›

• Africa Utopia – Southbank Centre, 11-14 September 2014

  By Africa in Words on 7 September , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Africa Utopia Southbank Centre, London Thursday 11th – Sunday 14th September 2014 Following 2012’s sensational first edition, Africa Utopia is back for 2014 to once again look at what can be learnt and celebrated from Africa and the African diaspora…. Read More ›

• Zakes Mda, ‘No Artist is Subject to the State’. Chaired by Zoë Wicomb. Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2014.

  By Katie Reid on 4 September , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The Zakes Mda session at the Edinburgh Book Festival, ‘No artist is subject to the state’, unfolded in all the best senses of the term. Chaired by Zoë Wicomb – who is succinctly described in The Scotsman as “a writer… Read More ›

• Review: Alex Smith’s ‘Devilskein & Dearlove’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 2 September , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  ‘AiW Guest Kristen Roupenian’ If it has been a long time since you’ve read Frances Hodgson Burnett’s children’s classic The Secret Garden—and if, in the meantime, your memory has been clouded by a series of overly charming movie adaptations—you may… Read More ›

• Africa in Words readings with Billy Kahora, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Alex Ntung at ASAUK Conference, 9th September 2014

  By Rebecca Jones on 29 August , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Africa in Words, in association with the African Studies Association UK, Writing Our Legacy and Urbanflo Creative Partnerships, is delighted to present:  WRITING EAST AND CENTRAL AFRICA: ACROSS GENRES IN PROSE Readings with authors Billy Kahora, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and… Read More ›

• The Responsibility of Writing in/for/about South Africa – after the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 2014

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 August , 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  AiW Guest: James Smith. During the Edinburgh International Book Festival I managed to catch three South African authors, Lauren Buekes and C.A. Davids, and Mark Gevisser. Three authors, writing in three different genres (although I realize that ‘genre’ in itself… Read More ›

• Damon Galgut at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 19 Aug, 2014

  By Katie Reid on 25 August , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  An Edinburgh International Book Festival session with Damon Galgut: Arctic Summer (Umuzi/Atlantic, 2014). Part of the Book Festival’s ‘Voices from South Africa’ theme. Chaired by Claire Armitstead (Books Editor at the Guardian and the Observer). Arctic Summer is South African writer… Read More ›

• The Solitude Issue of Saraba Magazine

  By Africa in Words on 23 August , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Saraba Magazine is excited to share the newest issue of the magazine published with the theme of “Solitude.” This forty-page issue includes poems by Saddiq Dzukogi, Olajide Salawu, Rasaq Gbolahan, Ajoke, Paul Njoroge, Kechi Nomu, Sihle Ntuli, Ekweremadu Uchenna, Yusuff… Read More ›

• Books for the Masses? Publishing Genre Fiction in Africa: Africa Writes, 13 July 2014

  By Africa in Words Guest on 18 August , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest Emma Shercliff Review of panel discussion with Bibi Bakare-Yusuf of Cassava Republic Press; Valerie Brandes of Jacaranda Books; Verna Wilkins of Tamarind Books and Susan Yearwood, agent and founder of Susan Yearwood Literary Agency. Chaired by Simi Dosekun…. Read More ›

• Update: Short Story Day Africa 2014 Long and Short lists – ‘Terra Incognita’

  By Africa in Words on 17 August , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Hot on the heels of Okwiri Oduor’s Caine Prize win for ‘My Father’s Head’, published through Short Story Day Africa, SSDA announced the long list of eighteen stories that will make up their 2014 anthology, Terra Incognita, in August, and now,… Read More ›

• Ama Ata Aidoo in Conversation: Review, Africa Writes

  By Africa in Words Guest on 15 August , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest Réhab Abdelghany Last month, the Royal African Society’s annual Africa Writes Festival brought to the UK an audience with the eminent Ghanaian playwright, poet, novelist and academic, Ama Ata Aidoo: a festive event in its own right. Having… Read More ›

• Lauren Beukes and C.A. Davids at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 9 Aug, 2014

  By Africa in Words Guest on 13 August , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW guest: James Smith. Broken Monsters and Broken Dreams I read Broken Monsters on a night flight from Cape Town, on my way to interview Lauren Beukes following her contribution to the Edinburgh Book Festival (2014 edition). It made the… Read More ›

• Q&A: Madhu Krishnan interviews novelist Okey Ndibe at Africa Writes

  By Africa in Words Guest on 12 August , 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  AiW Guest: Madhu Krishnan Okey Ndibe was born in Eastern Nigeria in 1960. A novelist, political columnist and essayist, he moved to the United States in 1988 at Chinua Achebe’s invitation, helping to found African Commentary. His critically-acclaimed first novel,… Read More ›

• ASAUK 2014 Biennial Conference, 9 – 11 September 2014

  By Africa in Words on 7 August , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  ASAUK Conference 2014 University of Sussex Tuesday 9th – Thursday 11th September Programme The conference programme is made up of an exciting range of panel discussions and keynote speeches. The full programme for the conference can be downloaded here. Highlights include: 9th September… Read More ›

• Voices from South Africa – at the 2014 Edinburgh International Book Festival, 9-25 August 2014

  By Katie Reid on 4 August , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Africa in Words is very excited to be back at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this year, “the world’s largest public celebration of the written word, right in the heart of Edinburgh”. Tickets for all events are available now from the… Read More ›

• What space is there for African travel writing? ‘Broadening the Gaze’, Africa Writes, 12 July 2014

  By Rebecca Jones on 1 August , 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Opening a panel on travel writing at the Royal Africa Society’s Africa Writes festival in London, panel chair Fatimah Kelleher observed that travel writing has often been a narrow genre in the past, dominated by Western perspectives on the world…. Read More ›

• ‘Beyond the Novel: Developing Contemporary African Writing’: Review, Africa Writes 2014

  By Africa in Words on 30 July , 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Saturday 12th July found me seated in the conference auditorium of the British Library, expectantly awaiting the start of a panel entitled ‘Beyond the Novel: Developing Contemporary African Writing’. Comprising one of the many events scheduled at Africa Writes 2014,… Read More ›

• New edition of Chimurenga’s pan African gazette, the Chronic – out now!

  By Africa in Words on 29 July , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  For the new issue of Chimurenga’s pan African gazette, the Chronic, the focus is on graphic stories; comic journalism. Blending illustrations, photography, written analysis, infographics, interviews, letters and more, visual narratives speak of everyday complexities in the Africa in which we… Read More ›

• 2014 Morland Writing Scholarships: Call for Entries (deadline 31 October 2014)

  By Africa in Words on 23 July , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  2014 Morland Writing Scholarships Submissions due by 31 October 2014 The Miles Morland Foundation is pleased to announce today the 2014 Morland Writing Scholarships for African writers. Entries can now be received by the Foundation. We are delighted that the… Read More ›

• The Story Club: Malawi’s Newest Literary Initiative Goes Off-line

  By Stephanie Santana on 17 July , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

    Today, more and more literary events happen online. Readers argue over the plotlines of serialized ‘Facebook fiction.’ Writers tweet entire novels. And a Google Hangout with an author will draw a larger crowd than a signing at a local bookstore…. Read More ›

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