Zukiswa Wanner‘s “The F Word” will be the seventh story to be read in the #longstorySHORT series that is being recorded by our friends in South Africa. Zukiswa Wanner is well known to African literature followers. Her most recent gig is as the judge of the Etisalat Prize for African Literature where she and two […]
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Doreen Baingana is not a new name on this blog. The Ugandan writer emerged in 2005 with her collection of short stories Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe (my review) which established her as the golden girl of Ugandan literature. For that book she won an AWP (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Prize for […]
I’ve been following the Long Story Short Project where the work of African writing is brought alive with interest. The work of some of the best writers on continent is read by some of the better names in the arts in recordings that are presented as podcasts. Its scintillating stuff with previous writers like Chibundu […]
The #longstorySHORT project is one that tries to bring life to literature by having some of the best storytellers told by some of those who tell stories the best. This is a partnership between word smiths and those who perform best in the business around the continent. The fourth in the series of public readings […]
The fourth in the series of public readings that is the #longstorySHORT project that we love so much will be happening tomorrow at the Es’kia Mphalele Community Library in Pretoria tomorrow. The featured story will be The Weeping Willow by Thando Mgqolozana and it will be read by film, TV and theatre actor Khulu Skenjana. […]
I’ve talked about this hot new literary event called Long Story Short which is the brainchild of Kgauhelo Dube and curated by Yewande Omotoso. The idea is that instead of having the prose only in the written form the word is read by some of the people who are leading in the performing arts. These […]
South African author Niq Mhlongo is next in line for the Long Story Short project with his story Gollywood Drama being read by theatre heavy weight Mbali Kgosidintsi. The reading will be happening at 532 Love Lane Street, Hammanskraal (Hammanskraal Community Library) on 25th April. The Long Story Short Project aims at celebrating and elevating […]
There are so many events in and around the African Literature sphere in the very recent. One of the one’s which I have been tracking and interest me very much is the Long Story Short project which is the brainchild of Yewande Omotoso. Omotoso for the uninformed most recently was announced one of the scholars […]
