Ngugi Wa Thiong’o will be the headline guest at this year’s edition of Ake Festival 2016. Ngugi, who will sit in conversation with Okey Ndibe about his life and work, will be joined by a galaxy of stars in the African literary space. This year’s edition is themed “Beneath this Skin.’ 15-19 November 2016 are […]
Sarah Ladipo Manyika is on the Goldsmiths Prize 2016 shortlist for her novel Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun. The book is published by Cassava Republic Press which has offices in both Nigeria and the UK. The Goldsmiths Prize, a British literary award worth £10,000, was founded in 2013 for fiction that […]
Ehizogie Iyeoma, Ikechukwu Nwaogu and Servio Gbadamosi are the three Nigerian writers who just arrived in Iseyin, Oyo State for the six weeks September to October 2016 edition of the Ebedi International Residency Program. Ehizogie Iyeoman from Edo State has been described as a talented, young and energetic poet with the mastery of language and […]
There was a blurry of activity in Kenya’s capital city as the Nairobi International Book Fair 2016 was hosted at the Sarit Centre from 21-25 September 2016. Also happening was the Wahome Mutahi Literary prize 2016 on the Saturday evening. The Nairobi International Book Fair 2016 is the longest running book fairs in the Horn […]
The best libraries in Kenya will be feted at Maktaba Awards 2016 at a ceremony at the Kenya National Museum on Friday 30th September 2016. Libraries are a very important part of the African literature business as for many who cannot afford to buy many books can get their favourite read at their local one. […]
Bassey Ikpi and Ngwatilo Mawiyoo join some of the best poets on the continent for 20th edition of Poetry Africa festival in Durban, South Africa from 10-15 October 2016. Poetry Africa is an international poetry festival held annually in Durban, South Africa every year in October first held in 1996. The event being hosted by […]
Rwandans are called to make their fiction submissions for the Huza Press Prize for Fiction 2016. Huza Press a new outfit out of Rwanda announced themselves to the African literary with a bang last year as they organized the first known writing competition in the history of the Eastern African nation. The prize started with […]
Ng’ang’a Mbugua and John Habwe are the winners of the Wahome Mutahi Literary Prize 2016. The two writers who won in the English and Swahili categories respectively each go home with Kshs100,000. The Wahome Mutahi Literary Prize was the showcase presentation at the dinner hosted at the Pride Inn Hotel in Nairobi on September 24, […]
Accra, Ghana based yoga instructor S.Y Tetteh is the winner of the Koffi Addo Prize for Non Fiction 2016. The Koffi Addo Prize for Non Fiction 2016 was announced by the judges led by NoViolet Bulawayo working with Yewande Omotoso and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah. The essays in the running for the prize were Lost Futures […]
Aspiring writers have five days, 26-30th September 2016, to submit to Pan Macmillan South Africa for their manuscript to be considered. It’s a hard life for writers in generally. They have to spend years working hard on their manuscript and getting rejections right, left and centre in the hopes of being the next big thing. […]
Our good friends who run the Short Story Day Africa Prize have announced their longlist 2016. The twenty writers will have their stories judged by Sindiwe Magona, H.J. Golakai and Tendai Huchu. The Short Story Day Prize has quickly established itself in the African writing world with the quality of writers and the anthologies that […]
Ngugi Wa Thiongo is this year’s winner of Korea’s Pak Kyong-ni Literature Award. The award worth 100 million won (89,300 U.S. dollars) is presented by the Toji Cultural Center, the Pak Kyong-ni Literature Award Committee, Gangwon Province, Wonju City and The Dong-A Ilbo. The Pak Kyong-ni Literature Award was started in 2011 to honor the […]
Abidjan lit, or Abidjan reads, is a new initiative set to rock Côte d’Ivoire’s economic capital as it makes its debut on Friday 23 September. Abidjan lit will be making its official entry into Côte d’Ivoire’s literary scene this Friday as lovers of books and everything around converge at Ovillage in Abidjan from 18 – […]
The Nairobi International Book Fair 2016, the 19th annual one, starts today at the Sarit Centre and runs until the 25th September. The Nairobi International Book Fair 2016 will be at the centre of African literary story in East Africa as the oldest fair in the region rolls into town. The festival is really a […]
We need to see these five kickass African novels beloved by many become movies we can all watch at the movies. Those who attended the recently ended Writivism 2016 must have been pleased to find that they could watch one of the continents most beloved books turned movie; Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of A Yellow Sun. […]
