The Kenya Writes guest for today is Mombasa-born and bred Khadija Abdalla Bajaber. She won the Graywolf Africa Prize in 2018 and went on to publish The House of Rust. The House of Rust comes with the following blurb; The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadhrami girl in Mombasa. When her […]
Zimbabwe-born, USA-based Munashe Kaseke is the writer of the short story collection Send Her Back and Other Stories and the founder of Mukana Press. Check out the podcast by clicking here. Here is a blurb of the book that launched recently; In “Send Her Back and Other Stories,” Munashe Kaseke offers an awfully intimate, fresh […]
The Kenya Writes guest for today is Kisumu-based lawyer and author Patrick Ochieng who was shortlisted for the 2010 Golden Baobab Prize and the NALIF Writing Competition in 2017. He has been published in Kikwetu, Munyori, Brittle Paper, and other literary publications. Tune in by clicking here. The debut book for children is Playing a […]
The New Daughters of Africa podcast, a project of InterKontinental, will be anchored by journalist, columnist, and award-winning novelist Panashe Chigumadzi. InterKontinental, founded by Karla Kutzner and Stefanie Hirsbrunner, is not a new name to many who follow the African diaspora literary scene in Germany. Their most famous contribution to the culture has to be the […]
The second season of PEN South Africa’s podcast “The Empty Chair” is available for your listening pleasure from Thursday, December 9, 2021. PEN South Africa, founded in 1927, is the South African branch of Pen International which promotes friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere. In June, they introduced “The Empty Chair by PEN SA” […]
The Open Book Festival has announced the 2021 edition of their podcast series featuring some of the best writers in South Africa running from November 8-24, 2021. The Open Book Festival is a literary festival with a focus on South African literature in an international context held in Cape Town, South Africa since 2011. For […]
Hello Patreons. I want to say that you for the support that you have been giving to the work that I am doing. This week I have the following; 1) Literary Livestream: Mariette Tchamda Mbunpi and Annette Michael. The Livestream allows readers to engage with their favourite personalities in the literary ecosystem. Here is a […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga joins a panel that includes Volha Hapeyeva, and Ralf Nestmeyer as the James Murua Literary LiveStream returns on Wednesday, March 24, 2021, at 18:00 GMT/ 19:00 WAT/ 20:00 CAT/ 21:00 EAT. You can join the stream, brought to you in cooperation with the Frankfurter Buchmesse with financial support from the German Federal Foreign […]
Dorothy Koomson who recently joined the UK Society of Author’s board is a newly minted podcaster with The Happy Author. Dorothy Koomson described as “Britain’s biggest selling black author of adult fiction” is the writer of sixteen books. The full list of her books published to date are The Cupid Effect (2003), The Chocolate Run […]
The African Literary Podcast interviews Chimeka Garricks as part of our Afrolit Sans Frontières series. Chimeka Garricks is a lawyer, editor, and ghost copywriter. His fiction includes the acclaimed novel, Tomorrow Died Yesterday, and the collection of short stories, A Broken People’s Playlist. The collection which he wrote with the aid of music while trying […]
The African Literary Podcast, sponsored by Nairobi-based Prestige Books, interviews Kenyan writer Joe Khamisi. Joe Khamisi has had a long history of public service in Kenya. For many years he worked as a journalist before transitioning into civil service and then parliament. When his legislative career ended, he wrote the nonfiction titles The Politics of […]
The African Literary Podcast, sponsored by Nairobi-based Prestige Books, interviews Kenyan novelist Makena Maganjo. A few weeks ago, Makena Maganjo’s debut novel South B’s finest about life in a Nairobi estate over a few decades launched at the Goethe-Institut. The book has since gotten rave reviews from a writer very few had heard about before […]
The African Literary Podcast episode 13, sponsored by Prestige Books, interviews South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and television scriptwriter Lauren Beukes from the Sharjah International Book Fair 2018. Lauren Beukes is the author of the books Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa’s Past (2004), Moxyland (2008), Zoo City (2010), The Shining Girls (2013), […]
The African Literary Podcast’s episode twelfth sponsored by Nairobi-based Prestige Books features an interview with Kinyanjui Kombani. In Episode 12, we have an interview with Kinyanjui Kombani a writer of fiction for all ages. Kombani has two novels in The Last Villains of Molo and Den of Inequities has written several books for children and […]
The African Literary Podcast has returned with an Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor interview. The return of the series is sponsored by Nairobi-based Prestige Books. The new season of the African Literary Podcast has returned with an exclusive interview with Kenyan novelist Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor conducted in a little café by Lavington Mall, Nairobi. She talks about […]
