
JamesMurua.com Outstanding African literary awards 2016
We present to you the JamesMurua.com outstanding literary awards 2016. 2016 has been an amazing year for the African literary […]
We present to you the JamesMurua.com outstanding literary awards 2016. 2016 has been an amazing year for the African literary […]
We Introduce Long Reads a new concept that will feature every Friday here at JamesMurua.com. We start with Noo Saro-Wiwa’s […]
Channels Book Club, one of the few TV shows on the continent dedicated to books, have unveiled their top 20 […]
The Sawiris Cultural Award 2016 has made public its shortlists for best novel, short-story collection, and best screenplay. The six […]
Event: Cosmos Book Club features Kinyanjui Kombani’s The Last Villains of Molo Date: Saturday January 7th 2017 Time: 14:00–16:00hrs. Venue: […]
Nigerian writer Elnathan John has announced that he will be doing an official tour of Nairobi in February 2017. Elnathan […]
Jalada Africa and Ngugi wa Thiong’o were the big literary winners at Kenya’s Sanaa Theatre Awards 2016 hosted at the […]
The New African’s 100 most influential Africans list 2016 include a healthy number of those in the book business from […]
The Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature 2016 Supported by ALAF Limited winners have been announced. They are Idrissa […]
Egyptian writer Adel Esmat was awarded the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature 2016 for his novel Hikayât Yûsuf Tadrus (The […]
The Morland Writing scholarships 2016 winners have been announced and they are Abdul Adan (Somalia), Ayesha Harruna Attah (Ghana), Lidudumalingani Mqombothi […]
Nadifa Mohamed will facilitate the Iceland Writers Retreat 2017; one of her wards will be Kenyan writer Peter Ngila. So […]
The Caine Prize 2017 judges have been announced and they are led by award winning author, poet and, editor Nii […]
The Abantu Book Festival 2016 opened with a moving opening ceremony in the Soweto Theatre in South Africa on December […]
Sibongile Fisher is the winner of the 2016 Short Story Day Africa Prize for Short Fiction for her story A […]