Wole Soyinka to publish first novel in almost 50 years | Wole Soyinka | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2020/oct…

Our dissertation writing group, which we named JESSICA, has commenced!

Absolutely gorgeous conversation on Dambudzo Marachera btw Lily Saint & Tinashe Mushakavanhu Please buy Tinashe Mushakavanhu's gorgeous book right away: "Reincarnating Marechera: Notes On a Speculative Archive" uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/r… #Zimbabwe #archives

How gorgeous is this US cover for DISRUPTION, the latest Short Story Day Africa anthology? Read more about the book and the cover here. brittlepaper.com/2021/05/cover-…

Barricade publishes antifascist literature in translation - from all times and places of resistance! Donate to our printing fund and get the journal + zines, Barricade stickers and pins, antifascist playlists + poems, and more! chuffed.org/project/help-g…

It's the first time a Namibian writer is winning the @cwwriters prize. Rémy Ngamije's winning story is titled “Granddaughter of the Octopus." It's “an experimental short story filled with humour, voice, and quiet, earnest truths.” brittlepaper.com/2021/05/namibi…

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The recent intensification of the ongoing violence in occupied Palestine underscores the need for vocal and visible international solidarity with the Palestinian people. Educational resources & info on upcoming actions in our statement below — barricadejournal.org/ramparts/solid…

Dr. Abdullah Abdurahman was the first black South African to be elected to a political position. He won a seat on the City of Cape Town Council in 1904. Find out more from the author of a new book about his life, Martin Plaut bbc.in/3uNvID5

Wish I could say I squeezed this tomato in between tons of other networking and service work, but no, not much going on except melting. (AC to-come)

The Banality of Empathy (TM)

This one’s for you, Andrea Gadberry !

a pandemic is someone who’s attracted to academics from all disciplines

“Neither empathy nor literature is necessarily a form of moral action. To be clear, language can be active, can do things in the world—consider political policies or declarations of independence—but that doesn’t mean all language-based forms do.” yalereview.org/article/unethi…

103 African Writers Respond to Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize Win brittlepaper.com/2021/10/103-af…

The Facebook Papers: Here's our country-by-country view of how Facebook's repeated underinvestment has helped spur hate, violence, and even armed conflict around the world restofworld.org/2021/facebook-…

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the #2021BookerPrize is 'The Promise' by Damon Galgut! Watch Damon’s winner’s interview live on the BBC now: bbc.in/3EzQ340 Chatto&Windus Vintage Books Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚

2021 is a huge year for #AfricanLiterature -- started with David Diop (International Booker), Abdulrazak Gurnah (Nobel), Boris Diop (Neustadt) and Damon Galgut (Booker)🥂💥 Disappointed Nadifa Mohamed's urgent brilliant book did not win💔 Read hers before all the others, please!

Marvellous news 📰 * Voters roar 🦁 anger at corruption, sleaze, collapsed local state. Listen 🎧! * Damon Galgut bags Booker after Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel for literature * Global green deal to transition economy from coal generation is massive * Also jacarandas and Diwali

In the process of archiving literary references in Succession, which I also found out is very loosely based on King Lear.