‘Brief and haunting, this makes for a timely testament to the destructive powers of pandemics’ – Publishers Weekly Véronique Tadjo is a writer and painter from Ivory Coast. This year marks the release of her latest novel in translation, In… Read More ›
Véronique Tadjo
In other Words… AiW news and April’s wrap
Catching up on our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar, collated from across our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. April’s most read Reviews and General posts one from #Present | & one from our archives – #Past (click… Read More ›
Event: Africa Writes, 1-3 July 2016, London
Africa Writes is the Royal African Society’s annual literature festival. Celebrating its 5th year, Africa Writes 2016 will bring together over 50 authors, poets, publishers and experts for a stimulating and exciting three days! Every year the festival showcases established… Read More ›
Read more! On lists, labels and limits for ‘African women’s writing’
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 ›