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Festivals Nigeria

Veronique Tadjo is Ake Festival 2022 headliner.

Veronique Tadjo will headline the Ake Arts & Book Festival 2022 which runs in Abeokuta, Nigeria from November 24-26, 2022. The announcement was made on Wednesday, October 12, 2022. The Ake Arts & Book Festival, popularly known as the Ake Festival, has been running in Nigeria since 2012. Lovers of books and the arts attend […]

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Cameroon Cote D'Ivoire Fiction New Books United States Young Adult

Book Digest: Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Véronique Tadjo, Nana Nkweti, Kalynn Bayron

We wrap up book news for our readers in our Book Digest feature. Today our focus is books from Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Véronique Tadjo, Nana Nkweti, and Kalynn Bayron. Unbury our Dead With Song, Mukoma Wa Ngugi Publisher: Cassava Republic Press Publication Date: September 21, 2021 Genre: Literary fiction Language: English Where to find it: […]

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Cote D'Ivoire Festivals

Veronique Tadjo to headline Salon International Du Livre Abidjan 2019.

Véronique Tadjo will headline the Salon International Du Livre Abidjan 2019 (International Book Fair of Abidjan 2019) scheduled for Abidjan, Ivory Coast from May 15 to 19, 2019. Salon International Du Livre Abidjan 2019 (International Book Fair of Abidjan 2019) has been organised annually by the Association of Publishers of Ivory Coast for the last […]

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Awards Fiction

Veronique Tadjo to chair Orange Book Prize in Africa 2018 jury.

Veronique Tadjo is the chair of the Orange Book Prize in Africa jury announced on January 22, 2019. The other judges are Valérie Marin La Meslée, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Wilfried N’Sondé, Michèle Rakotoson, Kouam Tawa, Elizabeth Tchoungui, and Fawzia Zouari. In November 2018, a new literary prize aimed at French- speaking Africa called the Orange […]

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Festivals Nigeria

The Ake Arts and Book Festival 2015 is here!

At this moment people are flying into Nigeria from all over world headed to Abeokuta; they are all coming to that city a couple of hours away from Lagos to attend the Ake Festival 2015. The Ake Festival was born in 2013 and it has quickly become the go to festival to meet African and […]

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South Africa

Cynthia Jele short story to kick off Long Story Short Project

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 […]