Starting soon: Writing a Greener World: How African Writers are Responding the Climate Crisis, our second #ReadingAfrica Week panel. We start at 12PM ET, register for the event here https://t.co/VTbdkDUxf1
Today's AiW Team pick,#6 of #ReadingAfrica week (with @catalyst_press), is @Duncan_M_Yoon's *China in 20th and 21st Century African Literature*, examining the "controversial symbol of China" through Africa's literary creative voices, as far back as the Cold War and beyond...
"Now I have decided. I will travel to search for her in every place." For #ReadingAfrica week, we're returning to this work by @AnnElSafiWriter (tr. @nariology) from our collection "Coming into Focus: Sudanese Women Writers" https://t.co/Y0A0jyyz5R
Chaos in Kinshasa, by Barly Baruti & Thierry Bellefroid, tr. Ivanka Hahnenberger.
A Harlem gangster's trip to Central Africa to attend the legendary 1974 Ali-Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle" boxing match becomes a one-way ticket to the seedy underground of Zaire.
#ReadingAfrica
In our latest interview, publicist and South African office head for @catalyst_press, SarahBelle Selig, speaks to @BijlKris about #ReadingAfrica Week (3-9 December), challenges and opportunities in indie publishing, and much more!
“Every so often a name spreads so far out that an entire community comes to believe nobody else is entitled to bear it. “ We’re celebrating #ReadingAfrica week with story by @bboris_diop (tr. from Wolof by El Hadji Moustapha Diop & @CoulibalyBojana). https://t.co/HPnzbjX1c2
"I see an Africa that writes, & publishes, for Africa and beyond, with the focus on supporting the African way of writing and storytelling" Mutesi Gasana, Ubuntu Publishers
@jlpowers leads a discussion @AfricainWords with African publishers #ReadingAfrica https://t.co/fjRIQFw3rx
Celebrate #ReadingAfrica week with MINE MINE MINE (@AfricanPoetryBF), a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s family’s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa.
https://t.co/UupKRn2GZr
Crooks and Straights, by Masha du Toit.
Those who are fans of fantasy and young magicians' coming-of-age titles will enjoy this book. Read more:
https://t.co/Qs0sfsPxPH
#ReadingAfrica#SouthAfricanYALit#IntlYALit
To celebrate #ReadingAfrica Week, @catalyst_press has organised three online events to spotlight African literature starting today.
All events are free to attend and held online, from 5 – 8 December 2023.
Learn more: https://t.co/iZyoj28Z7i
Celebrate #ReadingAfrica week with YOUR BODY IS WAR by @MShiferraw which contemplates the psychology of the female human body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world, refusing to be contained in the face of grief and trauma. @AfricanPoetryBF
https://t.co/O00HIw0hLG
THE FUTURE HAS AN APPOINTMENT WITH THE DAWN wrestles with the ethnic violence and civil war that dominated life in West Africa’s Ivory Coast in the first decade of the millennium. #ReadingAfrica
Save during our Holiday sale: https://t.co/5rYYu84HOl
Igbo is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Igbo people, a once autonomous people who live in Nigeria, Cameroon & Equatorial Guinea. We're proud to publish nearly two dozen titles in this important African language. https://t.co/mTsjrDiK2i
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Team pick #3 reopens a plagiarism scandal & reexamines the place of African writing in its light:
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's magical La Plus Secrete Memoire Des Hommes, + trans. @laravergnaud, The Most Secret Memory of Men https://t.co/jMJepZnA1m
#ReadingAfrica week - @catalyst_press
(BC somehow we were asleep on Sunday) Today we've 2x AiW picks of 2023's reads for @catalyst_press' #ReadingAfrica week -
Day 2's is @iwalesino's Everything is Sampled - a faceted long view on the production of African arts & letters in the digital age:
https://t.co/F20qCPJqUb