Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Petina Gappah are two of the many delegates set to attend the International Publishers Association Africa Seminar in Nairobi from June…
View More Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Petina Gappah for International Publishers Association Seminar in Nairobi.Tag: Petina Gappah
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o to headline action packed Ake Festival 2016
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o will be the headline guest at this year’s edition of Ake Festival 2016. Ngugi, who will sit in conversation with Okey Ndibe…
View More Ngugi Wa Thiong’o to headline action packed Ake Festival 2016Petina Gappah receives Zimbabwe Achiever Awards gong
Petina Gappah received the Zimbabwe Achiever Award gong for services to Arts and Media in Harare North (London), UK on Saturday, May 7th, 2016. Petina…
View More Petina Gappah receives Zimbabwe Achiever Awards gongPetina Gappah fails to make Bailey’s Women Prize for fiction 2016 Shortlist
The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist has been announced today and our Petina Gappah is sadly missing on it. :’( The Baileys Women’s Prize…
View More Petina Gappah fails to make Bailey’s Women Prize for fiction 2016 ShortlistPetina Gappah makes Baileys Women’s Prize for fiction 2016 longlist
It seems quite appropriate that the longlist for the Baileys Women’s Prize for fiction would be announced today on International Women’s Day. The longlist for…
View More Petina Gappah makes Baileys Women’s Prize for fiction 2016 longlistAuthors give tributes to late Zimbabwean author and poet Chenjerai Hove
Zimbabwean author, poet and commentator Chenjerai Hove passed on in Stavanger, Norway on Sunday. The author who was born in Mazvihwa in 1956 leaves a…
View More Authors give tributes to late Zimbabwean author and poet Chenjerai HovePetina Gappah’s The Book of Memory out in August
We all loved Pettina Gappah’s first book An Elegy for Easterly which won the Guardian first book award in 2009. It was a short story…
View More Petina Gappah’s The Book of Memory out in AugustA review of Petina Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly
Book: An Elegy for Easterly Author: Petina Gappah Publisher: Faber and Faber Year of publication: 2009 Number of pages: 273 Genre: Short story collection We…
View More A review of Petina Gappah’s An Elegy for EasterlyZukiswa Wanner launches books in Harare, Zimbabwe
t was an evening to remember at the Book Cafe in Harare last night as Zambian born South African/Zimbabwean author Zukiswa Wanner launched two of…
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