Ten poets from across Africa feature on the Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2019 shortlist announced on March 25, 2019. The Brunel International African Poetry Prize was founded in 2012 to revitalise African poetry. The prize planned to draw attention to poetry and to encourage a new generation of poets who might one day become […]
The UK’s Royal Society of Literature has selected its 40 Fellows under the age of 40 with a strong contingent of writers with African roots. These are Bola Agbaje, Sabrina Mahfouz, Nadifa Mohamed, Chibundu Onuzo, Irenosen Okojie, Inua Ellams, and Warsan Shire. Last year the United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Literature announced an initiative to […]
The Brunel University African Poetry Prize is an annual poetry prize aimed at the development, celebration and promotion of poetry from Africa with a prize money of £3000. Pretty good for poetry. The prize is sponsored by Brunel University a public research university located in London, UK and Commonwealth Writers. The shortlist for the 2015 […]
