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• Review Q&A: ‘Anxious Joburg: the inner lives of a Global South City’ with co-editor Nicky Falkof

  By Africa in Words on 10 November , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Ahead of our forthcoming review of Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives of a Global South City (Wits UP, 2020), we are publishing here an accompanying Q&A. Answering the questions is Nicky Falkof, co-editor (with Cobus van Staden) of the book.  Asking… Read More ›

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

  By Africa in Words on 5 November , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In a brief announcement of the latest from our sister post, the monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar from our social media feeds – we are retiring the ‘Wrap’ as was… ‘In other words…’, our retrospective… Read More ›

• Q&A with Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike ~ Things that Matter & that Made Me

  By Africa in Words on 2 November , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Today, we are delighted to be sharing a couple of new quickfire AiW Q&As with Nigerian writer Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, where we talk about “Things that Matter” to makers’ and thinkers’ processes and selves…  In this case, we’re talking books… Read More ›

• Q&A – Siphiwo Mahala: Imbiza Journal for African Writing Words on the Times

  By Africa in Words Guest on 29 October , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Siphiwo Mahala. AIW note: Today we offer a Words on the Times Q&A from Siphiwo Mahala, Editor of Imbiza Journal for African Writing. Our Words on the Times series (available at the link) was initiated in April 2020… Read More ›

• Words on the Times & Call for Entries: Paige Nick, the GBAS Book Cover Design Awards 2021

  By Africa in Words Guest on 26 October , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

    AiW Guest: Paige Nick. AiW note: today we bring you a combination post ~ a Words on the Times with Paige Nick – founder of The Good Book Appreciation Society, a Book Club on Facebook with over 16,000 members,… Read More ›

• Spotlight on… Ola Rotimi: The Revival of a Humanist

  By Africa in Words Guest on 22 October , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Sanya Osha.With Osha’s Words on the Times – a Q&A subset inititated to connect us up in our experiences of the pandemic – below… Ola Rotimi is a major Nigerian dramatist who passed away in 2000. Some of… Read More ›

• Review~ Revisiting Home: Language and Identity in Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie’s ‘Born in a Second Language’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 19 October , 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest Victor Zuze. Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie’s chapbook, Born in a Second Language (Button Poetry, July 2021), proves to be rich and complete. This owes to her storytelling prowess. She does not waste words. Her lines are suffused with striking… Read More ›

• Q&A – Anthony Molosi (Botswana): Poetry Africa Words on the Times

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 October , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Anthony Molosi.AiW note: In collaboration with Poetry Africa – presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal – we offer here a mini-series of our Words on the Times Q&As, with poets who are… Read More ›

• Q&A – Andriy Lyubka (Ukraine): Poetry Africa Words on the Times

  By Africa in Words Guest on 13 October , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Andriy Lyubka AiW note: In collaboration with Poetry Africa – presented by the Centre for Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal – we offer here a mini-series of our Words on the Times Q&As, with poets who… Read More ›

• Q&A – W.charly (Cameroon): Poetry Africa Words on the Times (en français)

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

  

  AiW Guest: Wassing Wadaï Charles, aka W.charly
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  After yesterday’s opening Q&A with Christine Yohannes (Ethiopia), today we share Poetry Africa Poets’ Words on the Times responses from slam artist Wassing Wadaï Charles, aka Charly (note – les réponses de Charly sont en français), below…

• Q&A – Christine Yohannes (Ethiopia): Poetry Africa Words on the Times

  By Africa in Words Guest on 11 October , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Christine Yohannes. AiW note: In collaboration with Poetry Africa, we are excited to share the first in a mini-series of Words on the Times Q&As with poets who are participating in the ‘powering up’ and ‘unmuting’ that is… Read More ›

• Introducing Poetry Africa 2021 & AiW Words on the Times…

  By Africa in Words on 8 October , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW are excited to share advance news of a mini-series, in collaboration with Poetry Africa 2021, of our Words on the Times Q&A subset – with poets who are participating in the 25th edition of the festival this year. Running… Read More ›

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

  By Africa in Words on 6 October , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Alongside our sister post, our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar from our social media feeds, we catch up with our “calls for” posts this month, for opportunities and contributions – academic and creative – collated… Read More ›

• In other Words… AiW news & wrap for September

  By Africa in Words on 6 October , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Catching up on our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar, collated from across our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.  We also continue with our separate sister “Calls for” post as part of our “Other Words” this month,… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – TVOTRIBE

  By Africa in Words Guest on 16 September , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: We are happy to be able to share here a Q&A with the founder of online writing and creative arts community TVOTRIBE, Victoria Olajide. In 2021, TVOTRIBE celebrated their second anniversary with activities positioned around the theme “The… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Sandra Chege of Hadithi

  By Africa in Words Guest on 10 September , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Dear Reader, When last did you send a loved one a hand-written letter, or go to the post office expecting to receive one? When did you last begin a letter, on paper or in its pre-material compositional stage, and what… Read More ›

• August’s Calls for & Opportunities… roundup

  By Africa in Words on 2 September , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Jump to: Scholarly & Academic Creative-Critical – Makers & Producers Alongside our sister post, our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar from our social media feeds (already up on the site to check out at the… Read More ›

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

  By Africa in Words on 2 September , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Catching up on our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar, collated from across our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. This month we are covering news and events across July and August following our short holiday hiatus from… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Eriye Onagoruwa, author of “Dear Alaere”, & Ibiso Graham-Douglas, founder of Paperworth Books Ltd

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 August , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Note: We are delighted to be able to share here a set of Q&As based around the novel Dear Alaere, published by Paperworth Books in 2020. Both the author, Eriye Onagoruwa, and the book’s publisher and founder of Paperworth… Read More ›

• AiW long read: Caine 2021 – A prize coming of age

  By Africa in Words Guest on 24 August , 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Doseline Kiguru AiW note: As with every year since “Joining the Caine Prize ‘Blog-Carnival’” back in 2013 — Africa in Words has engaged with the AKO Caine Prize for African Writers in the run up to the winner… Read More ›

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