AiW note: Afritondo is a media and publishing platform which aims to improve diversity in publishing by offering African and Black minority writers a platform on which to tell their stories. Afritondo publishes stories, essays, commentaries, and poems by established,… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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…
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 ›
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 ›
Jump to: Scholarly & Academic Creative-Critical – Makers & Producers Alongside our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar that isn’t already on the site — we are introducing a new “Calls for” post this month, for… Read More ›
With AiW Guests: Dolla Sapeta and Khaya Gqomo. A few weeks ago, Africa in Words published the first of our pioneering posts promoting the work of the New Brighton Art School. We sat down with Dolla Sapeta, its founder, to… Read More ›
The written word envelops online as South African, African and International writers meet for a thought-provoking week of literary dialogue, exchanging ideas, and stimulating discussions. Time of the Writer features a diverse gathering of leading novelists, social commentators, activists, playwrights, short… Read More ›
AiW note: Last year, Africa in Words published a fascinating Words on the Times feature with the South African artist and poet, Dolla Sapeta. During his responses Dolla spoke of his vision of “bringing to life an art school in… Read More ›
Ahead of Jacana Media’s launch of “They Called You Dambudzo: A Memoir” by Flora Veit-Wild, we are fully pleased to be able to share Mushakavanhu’s Words on the Times – an AiW Q&A series initiated as the early stages of the pandemic set in to connect us and our changing experiences of work and working.
Not only has Tinashe researched and written on Marechera extensively, and in a number of generative and connective ways and contexts, we are also delighted to be able to introduce Tinashe as a collaborator with us and member of our team here at AiW with these, his Words…
AiW Guest: Thulani Angoma-Mzini There is a silence, or perhaps a deafness, that the lay man (and particularly the cis-gendered heterosexual man) indulges in when it comes to bodies gendered differently to theirs. The collection of essays titled Living While… Read More ›
AiW note: To celebrate the past thirty years of independent distributing and bookselling at African Books Collective (ABC), we are running a series highlighting the wonderful work of those who make up ABC. We will be talking to some of… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Jade Munslow Ong. AiW note: The 11th of December 2020 marks 100 years since Olive Schreiner’s death. Here, Jade Munslow Ong discusses Schreiner’s legacies as a pioneering feminist, anti-colonialist and author of the first South African novel. 100… Read More ›
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