Sylva Nze Ifedigbo was declared the winner of the Chinua Achebe Prize for Literature 2023 on October 29, 2022. Su’eddie Vershima Agema also won the Association of Nigerian Authors Poetry Prize. Chinua Achebe was the author of Things Fall Apart (1958) the most well-read novel written by an African. His other novels were No Longer […]
Egyptian novelist and short story writer Bahaa Taher passed away in Egypt from illness on October 27, 2022. Bahaa Taher was born in Giza Governorate on January 13, 1935, in Egypt. He had a bachelor’s degree in history, and literature faculty in 1956, then a postgraduate diploma in media from the University of Cairo in […]
The Kistrech International Poetry Festival 2022 was hosted in several venues around Kenya from October 8 – 14, 2022. The Kistrech International Poetry Festival was founded to promote poetry and cultural exchange between local and foreign artists by Dr Christopher Okemwa in 2013. The annual festival features spoken-word, rap, song, poetry reading, oral poetry, music […]
