Lucas Wafula (Kenya), Renee Edwige Dro (Côte d’Ivoire), and Remy Ngamije (Namibia) are the judges for the inaugural edition of the Kendeka Prize for African…
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Category: Cote D’Ivoire
Gauz at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 5.
Gauz featured at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 5 from Kansas City, USA on Thursday, July 30, 2020. He was hosted by Renee Edwige Dro. Afrolit…
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Prix Kourouma 2020 shortlist announced.
The shortlist for Prix Kourouma 2020 was announced on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. Ahmadou Kourouma was the Ivorian novelist who wrote Allah N’est Pas (Allah…
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Tanella Boni at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 3.
Tanella Boni kicked off the Sunday on Season 3 of Afrolit Sans Frontières from Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire on May 31, 2020. She was hosted by…
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Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 3: Meet the writers.
Here are the writers who will feature at Season 3 of Afrolit Sans Frontières running from May 25 – June 1, 2020. The festival theme…
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Edwige Renée Dro at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 2.
Edwige Renée Dro kicked off day three of Season 2 of Afrolit Sans Frontières on Instagram from Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire on Wednesday, April 22, 2020.…
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Cote D’Ivoire’s Prix Ivoire 2019 finalists announced.
The finalists for Prix Ivoire 2019, the leading literary prize from Cote D’Ivoire, were announced on August 9, 2019. The Prix Ivoire is an award…
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Veronique Tadjo to headline Salon International Du Livre Abidjan 2019.
Véronique Tadjo will headline the Salon International Du Livre Abidjan 2019 (International Book Fair of Abidjan 2019) scheduled for Abidjan, Ivory Coast from May 15…
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David Diop is Prix Ahmadou Kourouma 2019 winner.
David Diop is the winner of the Prix Ahmadou Kourouma 2019 for his book Frere D’ame (Brother of Soul). Ahmadou Kourouma was an Ivorian novelist…
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Orange Book Award in Africa 2019 finalists announced.
The six finalists for the Orange Book Award in Africa 2019 were announced on March 7, 2019. In November 2018, a new literary prize called…
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Ivorian novelist, playwright, and poet Bernard Dadié has passed on.
Cote D’Ivoire novelist, playwright, and poet Bernard Dadié passed away on March 9, 2019. Bernard Dadié was a prolific writer whose work was in several…
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Dro, Tubosun, Masinyana, Ndlovu are Morland Writing Scholars 2018.
The Morland Writing Scholars 2018 have been announced today, Tuesday, November 27, 2018. The four are Edwige Renee Dro, Kola Tubosun, Sibabalwe Oscar Masinyana, and…
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Morland Writing Scholarships 2018 shortlist announced.
The Morland Writing Scholarships 2018 shortlist has been announced today with twenty writers from ten African countries in the running. The Morland Writing Scholarship is…
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Abidjan Lit makes its Cote D’Ivoire debut on Friday
Abidjan lit, or Abidjan reads, is a new initiative set to rock Côte d’Ivoire’s economic capital as it makes its debut on Friday 23 September.…
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New Etisalat Prize Judges 2016 seek your entry (Self-published folks need not apply)
The Etisalat Prize Judges 2016 were announced yesterday and they are already looking for your submissions. Only books by debutant authors from publishing houses who…
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