Lizzy Attree, who has served as director of the Caine Prize for African Writing as a part-time consultant for seven years, is leaving the organisation. The Caine Prize is one of the most important literary prize on the African continent today. It offers UK pounds 10,000 to the best short story writer in the year […]
The Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African literature was founded by Mukoma Wa Ngugi and Lizzy Attree in 2014 to promote writing in African languages and encourage translation from, between and into African languages. Alongside the announcements for the winners of the Mabati Cornell Prize this year, a call for submissions the 2016 edition of […]
The Storymoja Festival 2015 is here ladies and gentlemen! The hype and the tweets and the Facebook statuses and Instagram posts and the planning has culminated to one of the biggest cultural event in the region is upon us. The festival promises some of the best discussions with the book being at the centre of […]
Mukoma Wa Ngugi and Lizzy Attree announced the Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili for African Literature at the Ake Festival last year. Whoever would win it would be doing a bit of travelling and get some change to do as they would like. Folks like myself would probably buy more books. And beer. Is there a need for […]
Kiswahili is the most important language in the East African region having been born in the Indian Ocean coast and rapidly spreading inland. The language is spoken in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, the eastern part of the DRC and Mozambique. Today a new prize for those who write the language was announced at the Ake Festival […]
