As we move through the changed circumstances, timelines and spaces of now, we catch up on our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ we haven’t had out already on the site – news on AiW’s radar, collated from across our social… Read More ›
Sierra Leone
Q&A: “No matter what, art and creativity can still shine through”: Words on the Times with Poda-Poda Stories’s Ngozi Cole
Poda-Poda Stories is a digital platform and literary journal that gathers rich stories from Sierra Leone and the Sierra Leonean diaspora, founded by Ngozi Cole in 2019. The name “Poda-Poda Stories” comes from Cole’s high school days where she travelled… Read More ›
Event: Sierra Leone National Book Fair (05-07 December)
Sierra Leone National Book Fair 05- 07 December At the National Book Fair in Sierra Leone this year, there will be book exhibitions, book launches, reading sessions, panel discussions, poetry competitions, and much more. There will be opportunity to meet… Read More ›
Exhibition: African Textiles from the Karun Thakar Collection, SOAS (Ends 14 December)
The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London is hosting an exquisite exhibition of ‘African Textiles from the Karun Thakar Collection’, arguably one of the world’s largest private collections of African textiles. Featuring high quality material, that highlights the sophistication of historical… Read More ›
A Tragic Story of War: Discussing Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love at the BBC Bookclub
AiW Guest Zahra Banday Zahra Banday attended a recent recording of BBC Radio 4’s Bookclub discussing Aminatta Forna’s novel The Memory of Love (2011). The BBC Bookclub programme aired on 1st September 2019; you can listen again here, or catch… Read More ›
Event: Remembering Landeg White (8th October: SOAS, London)
The Centre of African Studies, SOAS, invites you to a remembrance to celebrate the life of Landeg White: Poet, Teacher, Scholar, Translator and Novelist At SOAS, in London, 8th October 2018 from 17.15 to 19.00 Landeg White was born in… Read More ›
In memory of Joanna Skelt, 1968-2018
It is with deep sadness that Africa in Words writes of the passing of Joanna Skelt, who was, amongst many other things, a writer for Africa in Words. Joanna was a poet, scholar, activist and teacher. She died on 31… Read More ›
Q&A: Pede Hollist
Posted in the run up to our review of the Caine Prize 2015 anthology Lusaka Punk and Other Stories, as part of a follow up series to our 2015 Blogging the Caine Prize – open to the ongoing public conversation the prize, and… Read More ›
Crossing Borders to Find Home – new non-fiction by Pede Hollist
By AiW Guest: Pede Hollist AiW note: Pede Hollist is the author of the novel So the Path Does Not Die (recently reviewed by Rashi Rohatgi for AiW) and the Caine Prize shortlisted story ‘Foreign Aid‘. Speaking at the Africa Writes festival… Read More ›
Review: Binders Full of Story-telling Women – Pede Hollist’s ‘So the Path Does Not Die’
By AiW Guest Rashi Rohatgi. So the Path Does Not Die (Jacaranda Press, 2014), the African Literature Association’s Book of the Year by Caine Prize 2013 shortlisted author Pede Hollist, promises to be an ‘issues’ book: its protagonist, Finaba, loses her… Read More ›
An interview with novelist Fred Soneka
Fred Soneka is a novelist living in Freetown, Sierra Leone, who recently published two novels: When The Axe Swings (2012) and Looking for Tanana (2013). When The Axe Swings explores the dynamics of a polygamous marriage as the woodcutter Woody… Read More ›
Blogging the Caine Prize – Pede Hollist’s ‘Foreign Aid’
Coming to the Caine Prize blog party late in terms of Pede Hollist’s ‘Foreign Aid’, I’m aware that a lot of the ground on this story has already been covered – see the end of this post for links to… Read More ›
Review: Sowei Mask: Spirit of Sierra Leone at the British Museum
The exhibit is centred around one Sierra Leonean mask, a ‘sowei’ mask of the all-female Sande societies, worn at ritual public celebrations and ceremonies by the societies’ high officials when masquerading as the spirit of the Sande as ndoli jowei (‘the… Read More ›
Upcoming Africa-related and free exhibitions at the British Museum, both with associated events (Sowei mask event Feb 16).
Sowei mask: spirit of Sierra Leone |14/02 – 28/04 14/02 – 21/04 | Social Fabric: African Textiles today
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