With her story 'Five Years Next Sunday', Idza Luhumyo wins the 2022 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing!
The 5th Kenyan Writer to win this prize, with her story about a young woman able to call rain with her hair.
This story will be published in the forthcoming 2022 anthology!
Calling on book lovers eQonce and surrounds: Sign up for an opportunity to be selected as a member of the in-studio audience this month. To book a place and for further details, email [email protected]
Join us this coming Thursdays for a discussion of “The Wanderers” by @mpushntabeni in conversation with @AdvThembeka and @sewela_langeni
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@KwelaBooks
We’re going to publish novels that you want to read, and we need you to write them. Five publishing contracts up for grabs, for five talented South African storyteller writers. https://t.co/fymYNjEERe
Just finished reading An Unusual Grief by Yewande Omotoso @yomotoso - and I am blown away.
Really want to acknowledge @CassavaRepublic -a publishing house founded in Nigeria- for publishing great talent & giving us some of the best novels of our time by African writers.
Hear ye hear ye. First live launch of this novel on October 16, at the opening of my solo art exhibition at St Lorient Art Gallery/The Viewing Room Art Gallery in Pretoria - we’ll be talking SePitori
For this women's day here is a thread on women we should know. I want to start with Mazhar Makatemele who was also known as 'Black Sara'. She was the first Black woman in Sweden. How? She was kidnapped from Kwa-Zulu Natal by enslavers in 1846. She is buried in Sweden.
We are announcing the winner of the 2021 AKO @CainePrize TODAY at 5pm BST! 🎉🌟
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Join us tomorrow afternoon. Take a real lunch break. Conversations with @sisonke_msimang are always a highlight, so if you join us, we’ll all learn something, we’ll be deep, we’ll have fun & we’ll definitely laugh. Come and find out what the new book is about, & place your order
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“The great richness of this novel lies in its poetry, its grasp of history, its depth of enquiry and, in many places, beauty.” – Henrietta Rose-Innes