Africa in Words

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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New Words On... the site now! - generosity from @NoisyStreetss' founder, Modupe Daramola, on the release of Vol. III of their annual 'Love in Detty December' collection... https://t.co/ncd02kmTif

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We're back! after a break, Sanya Osha introduces his conversation with writer Maik Nwosu, on the publication of Nwosu's latest novel, The Book of Everything . Up on the site now 👉https://t.co/qmFpPrgi1i

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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: https://t.co/gOxlR64bxL

[The Shallow Tales Review @ShallowTales]

“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 @AfricainWords).

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👋🏾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: https://t.co/rdCNhluw1r
~"defying expectations in the unequal societies they speak out to"

[Writing Africa @writingafrica_]

UK’s Jhalak Prize 2025 longlist announced
#LiteraryAwards #Fiction #Poetry #UK @jhalakprize
https://t.co/HFoa2YGMS4

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Up now: the last in our 2024 @CainePrize Shortlist coverage.

Looking beyond the stories & the literary text, @DoselineKiguru spoke with Ellah Wakatama as Chair of this influential prize body "one of the main canon producers of African literatures today":
https://t.co/1mTWaxgnQr

[Tanaka Chidora @TanakaChidora]

What a story!

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@TanakaChidora What a review! 🙌🏾

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In the last of our latest series - award-winning author, translator and scholar @TanakaChidora, lecturer at UNIMA...
reviews award-winning author, theatre-maker and scholar, Nadia Davids' 'Bridling' - shortlisted for & 🎊winner 🎊of the 2024 @CainePrize:
https://t.co/R1uvlaovXJ

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Beatrice Grace Munala, lit teacher & PhD student at Stellenbosch, reviews @tryphena_yeboah's 'The Dishwashing Women' for the latest in our @CainePrize 2024 Shortlist series.

Full of care for the "elegance", depth of "insight" & "skill" of Yeboah's story: https://t.co/uRDvCXQQ5l

[Doek! Literary Magazine @doeklitmag]

WE ARE OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS

FICTION & POETRY ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
Namibians living in the country or in the diaspora and foreign nationals who permanently reside in Namibia.

DUE DATE: midnight on Sunday, 31 March 2025.

Submission guidelines & portal: https://t.co/aqCNd6vYgf

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The 2024 @CainePrize Shortlist series continues- a review of @SamuelKerubu'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:
https://t.co/RNm9eti9jf

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More in our Reviews series of all the stories shortlisted for the 2024 @CainePrize.

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: https://t.co/y8pUthn3fQ

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Up today - the first in our Reviews series of the stories shortlisted for the 2024 @CainePrize.

Spemba Spemba, lecturer in Literature at the University of Dar es Salaam, reviews the "concise ... visceral" rhythm & control of @PemiAguda's 'Breastmilk':
https://t.co/y3iyZvZ9Pv

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Thanks for all the @CainePrize '24 Q&A🔥!
@chikaunigwe (Chair of the Judges);
Writers @PemiAguda & Uche Okonkwo;
Our Writer-Publisher sets: @SamuelKerubu & Carolyn Kuebler of @NERweb; @tryphena_yeboah & Tom Jenks at @NarrativeMag: Nadia Davids & Gerald Maa (@GeorgiaReview)

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On the site now, with all in the series, the last in the @CainePrize 2024 Shortlist Q&As are out - another twinned Writer-Publisher set with Nadia Davids, who talks about her winning 🎉story, 'Bridling', & @GeorgiaReview's Gerald Maa, on its publication.

https://t.co/hIa5XgC3Se

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Another gem in Nadia Davids' A.s on the Q. about investment in/ advice on the craft:
"1) keep writing, keep showing up, keep hewing close to the work that holds meaning for you; 2) find and forge community with other writers or readers who appreciate what you’re trying to do..."

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More in our dynamic duo Writer-Publisher @CainePrize 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 @NarrativeMag https://t.co/ya84AKDSUR

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This! 👇🏾
& also (shamelessly) revisiting @twongye's words on anthologies here: https://t.co/sGHW7iEHci
"...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"

[Hilda J. Twongyeirwe @twongye]

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