Africa in Words
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Focusing on creative cultural production and Africa - books, art, film, history, sounds, ideas & all their interactions - only one (1/2? a) foot in the academy.
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The 1st of our Writer-Publisher duos: Dr. Samuel Kolawole, writer of THE ROAD TO THE SALT SEA and Prof at Penn State English, on his 2024 The Caine Prize for African Writing shortlisted story, 'Adjustment of Status', & Carolyn Kuebler, editor at New England Review, about its publication. In full at: africainwords.com
This! 👇🏾 & also (shamelessly) revisiting Hilda J. Twongyeirwe's words on anthologies here: africainwords.com/2025/01/28/spo… "...a story that does not force itself on the reader but one that offers a voice of hope, a voice of resilience, a voice of alternatives, of compassion, of a future reimagined"
More in our dynamic duo Writer-Publisher The Caine Prize for African Writing 2024 Shortlist Q&As. With much wise on practice, ethics & industry advice, Tryphena Yeboah talks about her shortlisted story, 'The Dishwashing Women', and Tom Jenks, its publication in Narrative Magazine africainwords.com
Up today - the first in our Reviews series of the stories shortlisted for the 2024 The Caine Prize for African Writing. Spemba Spemba, lecturer in Literature at the University of Dar es Salaam, reviews the "concise ... visceral" rhythm & control of @PemiAguda's 'Breastmilk': africainwords.com/2025/02/10/rev…
More in our Reviews series of all the stories shortlisted for the 2024 The Caine Prize for African Writing. Difrodah Mnyika, pursuing a Master's at the University of Nairobi, opens the subtleties of Uche Okonkwo's 'Animals', both in family life & contemporary Nigerian discourse: africainwords.com/2025/02/11/rev…
The 2024 The Caine Prize for African Writing Shortlist series continues- a review of Dr. Samuel Kolawole's story, by Ekari Phiri, MA student & teacher at the University of Malawi. Intertextuality, undocumented states of being, cultural mobility, longing & want - all here, all on fire: africainwords.com/2025/02/12/rev…
Beatrice Grace Munala, lit teacher & PhD student at Stellenbosch, reviews Tryphena Yeboah's 'The Dishwashing Women' for the latest in our The Caine Prize for African Writing 2024 Shortlist series. Full of care for the "elegance", depth of "insight" & "skill" of Yeboah's story: africainwords.com/2025/02/13/rev…
In the last of our latest series - award-winning author, translator and scholar Tanaka Chidora, lecturer at UNIMA... reviews award-winning author, theatre-maker and scholar, Nadia Davids' 'Bridling' - shortlisted for & 🎊winner 🎊of the 2024 The Caine Prize for African Writing: africainwords.com/2025/02/14/rev…
Up now: the last in our 2024 The Caine Prize for African Writing Shortlist coverage. Looking beyond the stories & the literary text, Wanjirū Doseline spoke with Ellah Wakatama as Chair of this influential prize body "one of the main canon producers of African literatures today": africainwords.com/2025/02/28/qa-…
UK’s Jhalak Prize 2025 longlist announced #LiteraryAwards #Fiction #Poetry #UK Jhalak Prize writingafrica.com/uks-jhalak-pri…
👋🏾Post! After a conversation & performance by poet #Fannysdor in Chad (excerpted!), Leonie B Predic expands on the rise of 'voice against blade' from slameuses in francophone Africa READ: africainwords.com/2025/04/29/spo… ~"defying expectations in the unequal societies they speak out to"
“A writer is either inspired or he is not; but a second kind of inspiration is that which becomes possible out of moments and years of training for that instinct.” — Remi Raji (via Africa in Words).
Up on the site now! - 25 yrs on, Ranka Primorac reflects on Caroline Rooney's "thought-inspiring, intellectually demanding, funky 2000 monograph" & what it (still) tells us about the "deadliness of Western thought as well as its literary antidotes" today: africainwords.com/2025/05/13/spo…
