Efua Traoré is the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2018 winner for the Africa region for her short story True Happiness. The Nigerian-German writer was announced as the winner of the prize on June 29, 2018. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded annually for the best piece of unpublished short fiction and open to Commonwealth […]
Hawa Jande Golakai and Muthoni Wa Gichuru were the featured authors at Literary Crossroads at the Goethe-Institut in Nairobi on June 21, 2018. They were moderated by Anja Bengelstorff. Literary Crossroads is a Goethe-Institut event where writers meet colleagues from all over the continent and from the African diaspora to discuss trends, topics and themes […]
The Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction 2018 longlist has been announced. The Koffi Addo Writivism Prize for Creative Non Fiction Prize is named after Nana Koffi Addo a Ghanaian who was born on 6th May 1921 in Abetifi, Kwahu and passed on, the 2nd of December 2011. Addo had numerous articles published in various […]
The Writivism Short Story Prize 2018 longlist was been announced on Tuesday, June 25, 2018. The longlist of ten features writers from Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Ghana, and South Africa. The Writivism Short Story Prize celebrates writers from the African continent of prose from the last year. The prize which was born on the back […]
The Sunday Times Literary Awards 2018 winners Bongani Ngqulunga and Harry Kalmer were announced at a ceremony in Johannesburg, South Africa on June 23, 2018. The Sunday Times Literary Prize was founded by South African newspaper The Sunday Times in 1989. It is divided into two categories of fiction called the Barry Rouge Prize and […]
The Kistrech International Poetry Festival 2018 is set to happen in a series of towns in Kenya from October 3-10. The Kistrech International Poetry Festival was founded by Dr Christopher Okemwa in 2013 to promote poetry and cultural exchange between local and foreign artists. The annual shebang sees spoken-word, rap, song, poetry reading, oral poetry, […]
Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor is the Short Story Day Africa Prize 2017 winner for his story All Our Lives. Agazit Abate and Michael Yee came second and third respectively. Short Story Day Africa is a literary initiative that was set up to celebrate the diversity of Africa’s voices. It brings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers […]
This Mournable Body is the third in the Tsitsi Dangarembga trilogy that started off with Nervous Conditions and was followed on by The Book of Not. The new novel is published by Graywolf Publishers. In 1988, a novel Nervous Conditions written by Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga focusing on the story of a Shona family in […]
Authors from all over the continent will be converging on Cape Town, South African for the Open Book Festival 2018 which happens in September 5-9, 2018. The Open Book Festival is a literary festival held annually in Cape Town, South Africa with a focus on South African literature in an international context. The event includes […]
The Uganda Book Market, a new initiative bringing together the Ugandan publishing and reading community, is rocking the Kampala literary scene. The Uganda Book Market is a space aimed at giving exposure to creative works and other trade books in Uganda and a platform for interaction among publishers, writers, book traders and readers. It is […]
The Miles Morland Foundation has announced that the Morland Writing Scholarships for African Writers 2018 open on Saturday June 30, 2018. The Morland Writing Scholarships for African Writers 2018, popularly referred to as the Morland Writing Scholarship, is an opportunity to allow writers to stay with their core business without missing out on their normal […]
The Ake Festival 2018 theme and dates have been announced by the organisers. The festival will be happening in Lagos, Nigeria from October 24-27, 2018. The Ake Arts & Book Festival popularly known as the Ake Festival was born in 2012 as a production of the Lola Shoneyin led Bookbuzz Foundation in Abeokuta, Nigeria. From […]
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma is one of the brightest names in African writing right now. The native of Zimbabwe who has lived in South Africa and the USA has two books to her name. Shadows, her debut short story collection, was published to critical acclaim by Kwela in South Africa (2013) and awarded the 2014 Herman […]
Sol Plaatje: A Life Of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876 – 1932 by Brian Willan is sent to launch at the Sol Plaatje University, Kimberley, South Africa on June 19, 2018. Sol Plaatje was a South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer. He was a founder member and first General Secretary of the South […]
The Day of the African Child 2018, celebrated annually on June 16, was this year marked with song and dance led by Nairobi based “Time Out.” The events were hosted at the Kenya National Museum. Parents need all the help they can get to interact with their kids and other parents in the same space […]
