Hargeysa International Book Fair Saseni! Short Story Workshop Hargeysa, Somaliland 15-18 July 2019 Calling intermediate and established writers based on the African continent with an idea for a new short story that you want time, space and feedback to develop… Read More ›
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL AND THE SOMALI RESOURCE CENTRE INTRODUCE: LITERATURES OF THE HORN OF AFRICA TEXT AND COMMUNITY An 8-week Literature and Creative Writing Course @ Barton Hill Settlement 43 Ducie Rd, Bristol BS5 0AX Tutor: Billy Kahora Day:… Read More ›
East African Literary All Stars 15 Jul 2017, 2:30 pm Southbank Centre, London Stretching from the Arabian sea to the cities of Khartoum, Nairobi, Hargesya and beyond, the ‘Greater Horn of Africa’ is a meeting place of cultures that has… Read More ›
Yesterday evening marked the beginning of ‘Great Writers Inspire at Home’ – a series of workshops running over the next term at the University of Oxford which puts reading groups into dialogue with contemporary British writers, including Aminatta Forna and… Read More ›
Book Discussion on ‘City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp’ Wednesday, 27 April 2016, 7:15pm to 8:45pm Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG Speakers: Ben Rawlence (author of City of Thorns) &… Read More ›
Africa Writes – the Royal African Society’s annual literature and book festival promoting contemporary African writing – returns to The British Library. Africa Writes 2015 will bring together over 70 authors, poets, publishers, critics and experts for an exciting three-day programme, including… Read More ›
Thursday 18 June 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Book and Kitchen Join us at Book and Kitchen in Notting Hill for an evening of conversation and discussion on Somaliland with one of the country’s leading authors, Nadifa Mohamed, and journalist… Read More ›
Inspired by Dele Meiji Fatunla and Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed‘s list of 50 women writers they believe ‘everyone’ should read, I’m hoping to complete their list of recommendations in 2015. It includes exciting developments in publishing over recent years, as well as many of’the… Read More ›
In her Editor’s Note to the recently published Africa39 anthology, Ellah Allfrey asserts, “There is no danger of ‘a single story’ here.” She is referencing, of course, Chimamanda Adichie’s TED Talk, in which Adichie argues that a singular narrative about any… Read More ›
Following the recent launch of the Africa39 anthology, which selected and celebrates new work from the most promising 39 authors under the age of 40 from Sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora, four writers published in the collection will appear in dialogue with editor Ellah… Read More ›
List culture has become as ‘ubiquitous’ a feature of contemporary cultural life as the prize culture James English writes about in his seminal The Economy of Prestige. Lists from The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 to Granta’s Best Young British… Read More ›
This weekend all three editors of Africa in Words will be at Africa Writes 2013 in London – an African literature and book festival hosted by the Royal African Society. The festival is hosting some of the most exciting names… Read More ›
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