Engaging the Fringe at the Ake Festival #AkeFest2015
The theme at the Ake Festival 2015 this year was Engaging The Fringe. This meant that there were events that […]
Cat Hellisen wins Short Story Day Africa Prize 2015 #AkeFest2015
Cat Hellisen is the winner of the Short Story Day Africa Prize for Short Fiction 2015. The winner has just […]
Book bloggers strut their stuff at #AkeFest2015
Book bloggers are a very important lot in the African literary ecosystem and on Thursday afternoon some of the most […]
Writivism Workshop 2016 participants announced at Ake Festival #AkeFest205
The young writers who will be taking part in the Writivism workshops in fiction, non-fiction and poetry were announced on […]
Writing our way out of social inequality in Africa #AkeFest2015
Ayodele Morocco-Clarke moderated “Writing our way out of social inequality in Africa”, one of the first panels at the Ake […]
Nigerian writers get paid as Ake Festival begins #AkeFest2015
It’s finally here. After months of preparation and all the hype with the tweets and the Facebook posts and the […]
The Ake Arts and Book Festival 2015 is here!
At this moment people are flying into Nigeria from all over world headed to Abeokuta; they are all coming to […]
African literary festivals you can attend in 2015
2014 was a great year for Africa’s literature and a slew of festivals across the continent. So with the new […]