Ten poets from across Africa feature on the Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2019 shortlist announced on March 25, 2019. The Brunel International African Poetry Prize was founded in 2012 to revitalise African poetry. The prize planned to draw attention to poetry and to encourage a new generation of poets who might one day become […]
Nigerian poet and novelist Gabriel Okara died in his sleep at his home in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, after a brief illness on Monday, March 25, 2019. Gabriel Okara was born on April 24, 1921, in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. He attended Government College Umuahia in the 1930s and 40s where he got exposed to and was […]
The longlists for the Writivism Short Story Prize 2019 and the Koffi Addo Creative Nonfiction Prize 2019 have been announced on March 25, 2019. Writivism, the project of writing as activism, that works to build the capacity for writing on the continent was started in Kampala, Uganda in 2012. The initiative includes the Writivism Short […]
