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Advocacy Nigeria

African literary community responds to Nigeria’s #LekkiGenocide.

James Murua October 21, 2020 1 Comment

Members of the African Literary community have responded to the murder of protestors by military personnel in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria on October 20, 2020. In…

Advocacy

Open Letter: #EndSARS: African Writers On Continued Protests in Nigeria.

James Murua October 17, 2020 3 Comments

African writers have sent out a statement on the continued situation in Nigeria. The following is the statement in full and those that subscribe to…

Advocacy Awards Eritrea United Kingdom

Linton Kwesi Johnson shares PEN Pinter Prize 2020 with Amanuel Asrat.

James Murua October 13, 2020 No Comments Amanuel Asrat.Linton Kwesi Johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson shared the PEN Pinter Prize 2020 with Amanuel Asrat in a digital ceremony co-hosted by the British Library on October 12, 2020.…

Advocacy Zimbabwe

Booker prize-longlisted author Tsitsi Dangarembga arrested #FreeTsitsiDangarembga

James Murua July 31, 2020 No Comments

Tsitsi Dangarembga has been arrested by police in Harare, Zimbabwe today, July 31, 2020. Tsitsi Dangarembga started the week being longlisted for the Booker Prize,…

Advocacy United Kingdom

Black Writing Matters: Black Writers Guild UK, Black Agents & Editors’ Group.

James Murua July 15, 2020 No Comments

Black Lives Matter: Black Writers Guild UK, Black Agents & Editors’ Group. In the wake of the shift in world publishing in the last few…

Advocacy

Writers join Black Artists for Freedom coalition on Juneteenth Day 2020.

James Murua June 22, 2020 1 Comment

African and Black writers joined the Black Artists for Freedom coalition on Juneteenth Day, June 19, 2020. Black Artists for Freedom, a new coalition of…

Advocacy Afrolit Sans Frontieres

African Authors Sans Frontieres in Solidarity with African-Americans.

James Murua June 2, 2020 22 Comments

A statement from African Authors Sans Frontieres in Solidarity with African-Americans. As African writers without borders who are connected beyond geography with those who live…

Advocacy Uganda

Stella Nyanzi wins Oxfam Novib/PEN International Award 2020.

James Murua January 20, 2020 No Comments Pen International Stella Nyanzi

Stella Nyanzi was announced the winner of the Oxfam Novib/PEN International Award 2020 on January 16, 2020. PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee, the PEN…

Advocacy Awards Kenya

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o awarded the Catalonia International Prize 2019.

James Murua December 22, 2019 2 Comments Ngugi Wa Thiongo

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was awarded the Catalonia International Prize given by the Catalan government on December 20, 2019. The Catalonia International Prize is given annually,…

Advocacy Kenya

A literary caravan across three Kenyan counties.

James Murua June 3, 2019 No Comments Goethe Institut Goethe-Institut Kenya Writers Guild Kenya

There was a literary caravan with storytellers, writers, poets and more across the three Kenyan counties of Machakos, Nakuru, and Kakamega from May 27-29, 2019.…

Advocacy Awards Botswana Kenya

Accessible Books Consortium Accessibility Awards 2019 shortlist features two African organisations.

James Murua February 18, 2019 No Comments Companies and Intellectual Property Authority Ekitabu London Book Fair London Book Fair 2019 London Book Fair Accessibility Awards London Book Fair Accessibility Awards 2019

Botswana’s Companies and Intellectual Property Authority and Kenya’s eKitabu are on the Accessible Books Consortium Accessibility Awards 2019 shortlist announced on February 14, 2019. The…