Shadreck Chikoti wrapped up day six of Afrolit Sans Frontières on Instagram and Facebook from Lilongwe, Malawi on Saturday, March 28, 2020. The Afrolit Sans Frontiers Virtual Literary Festival is an initiative from writers of African origin curated by Zukiswa Wanner. Sixteen writers from 10 African countries are sharing their work from 15 different cities […]
The Afrolit Sans Frontieres Virtual Literary Festival, an initiative of writers of African origin curated by Zukiswa Wanner, kicks off on the Internet from March 23 – 30, 2020. In the last few weeks, the world has become unrecognisable as the Corona Virus pandemic reaches across the planet. Activity has ground to a halt in […]
The Feminart Arts and Book Festival 2019 officially kicked off at the Crossroads Hotel, Lilongwe, Malawi on November 23, 2019. The festival theme is “The Pursuit of Happiness.” The Feminart Arts and Book Festival is the first major literary festival to happen in the Southern African country of Malawi. It is a unique festival, not […]
Batsirai Chigama, Shadreck Chikoti, Soukaina Habiballah, Tade Ipadeola, Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah, Samuel Menghesteab, Martha Mukaiwa, and Yamkela Tywakadi are the African writers to take part in the Iowa International Writing Program 2019. The University of Iowa International Writing Program prides itself as being the oldest and largest multinational writing residency in the world. Started in 1967, […]
Binyavanga Wainaina was honoured at a ceremony at the Story Club Art Cafe in Lilongwe, Malawi on August 24, 2019. Binyavanga Wainaina shot to continental fame in 2002 when his short story Discovering Home won The Caine Prize for African Writing. He went on to become its most famous winner in the years that followed […]
It was a rocking evening at the Goethe Institut in Nairobi as Kenyan actor Abu Sense gave a performance portraying Malawian writer Shadreck Chikoti’s Azotus The Kingdom on Wednesday, March 27, 2019. The event included a question and answer session featuring the author Chikoti and the actor Abu Sense moderated by series creator Zukiswa Wanner. […]
Shadreck Chikoti and Abu Sense will be the first artists to rock the stage for Artistic Encounters in 2019 at the Goethe Institut Nairobi on Wednesday, March 27, 2019. They will be moderated by series creator and curator Zukiswa Wanner. In Artistic Encounters, two artists of different genres meet and create an art experience of […]
The guest list for Berlin’s African Book Festival 2019 has been unveiled. The festival curated by writer and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga runs from April 4-7, 2019. In 2018, writers from across Africa and its diaspora converged on Berlin for the African Book Festival with Chris Abani as the headliner. The festival organised by InterKontinental and […]
The Feminart Arts and Book Festival 2019 is set to be hosted in Lilongwe, Malawi from October 11-13. This inaugural edition will be run by a team led by festival director Shadreck Chikoti. Malawi hasn’t been very active in the African literary festival circuit in the recent past. This is set to change with the newest festival, […]
Artists for Goethe-Institut Kenya’s Artistic Encounters 2019 have been announced by series creator and curator Zukiswa Wanner. In 2017, the Goethe-Institut introduced Kenyan audiences to a series they called “Artistic Encounters.” Curated by Kenyan based South African author and publisher Zukiswa Wanner, two artists of different genres from two different countries meet and share their […]
The Writivism Short Story Prize 2018 longlist was been announced on Tuesday, June 25, 2018. The longlist of ten features writers from Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Ghana, and South Africa. The Writivism Short Story Prize celebrates writers from the African continent of prose from the last year. The prize which was born on the back […]
We need to see these five kickass African novels beloved by many become movies we can all watch at the movies. Those who attended the recently ended Writivism 2016 must have been pleased to find that they could watch one of the continents most beloved books turned movie; Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of A Yellow Sun. […]
Shadreck Chikoti will be the headline guest of the Tilembe Literary Festival the first in Zambia’s history. The literary festival has been making its march into the African continent and Zambia is the latest to answer the call. The country’s National Arts Council has initiated the Southern African country’s first literary festival called the Tilembe […]
The Imagine Africa 500 anthology featuring some of the continent’s leading names in speculative fiction this month. It will make its online debut on April 30. In November last year, I spoke about a workshop hosted by the Story Club in Malawi was facilitated by Billy Kahora, Jackee Batanda and Beatrice Lamwaka. Those at the workshop were […]
Alfred Msadala, a poet, short story writer and critic from Malawi, launched War Drums Are Beating; discourses off the anthill at the Blantyre Sports Club in the nations capital on Thursday evening. Msadala is the President of the Book Publishers Association of Malawi as well as the chair of the Board of Trustees of Blantyre […]
