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Words on… Maik Nwosu: A Voice above the fray (Q&A)
By AiW Guest: Sanya Osha. Maik Nwosu – a novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright and professor of English literary studies at the University of Denver, Colorado – is one of the more intriguing...
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Spotlight on… Step back and step aside: Rereading Caroline Rooney on animism...
AiW Guest: Ranka Primorac, University of Southampton, UK. “This indicates that the Magistrate would need to step back and step aside, to allow for a seeing besides him. Those would be the steps to...
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Spotlight on… Fanny’s D’Or: Voice Against Blade
With AiW Guest: Leonie B. Predić, including a conversation with Fanny’s D’Or. “You were the key to the doors of space, now you are a scar, a phase” In Chad, listed by Saifaddin Galal’s 2023 research...
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Review: Nadia Davids’‘Bridling’ (on the Caine Prize Shortlist 2024)
AiW Guest: Tanaka Chidora. AiW note: Today’s post is the final in our 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Reviews series (in full, with more coverage, here). Tanaka Chidora reviews the winning story by Nadia...
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Review: Home as Relationship – Tryphena L. Yeboah’s ‘The Dishwashing Women’...
AiW Guest: Beatrice Grace Munala. AiW note: Today’s post continues our 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Reviews series (in full with more here), as Beatrice Munala reviews Ghanaian writer Tryphena Yeboah’s...
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Review: The Alienated Migrant – Samuel Kọ́láwọlé’s ‘Adjustment of Status’ (on...
AiW Guest: Ekari Phiri. AiW note: Ekari’s piece continues our 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Reviews series (the complete Caine Prize series is here), today, of Nigerian writer Samuel Kọ́láwọlé‘s...
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Review: Family Dynamics in Uche Okonkwo’s ‘Animals’ (on the Caine Prize...
AiW Guest: Difrodah Mnyika. AiW note: this is the second in our 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Reviews series (full series here); today, our review is of Nigerian writer Uche Oknonkwo’s shortlisted story,...
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Review: Of Motherhood and Negotiation – ‘Breastmilk’ by ‘Pemi Aguda (on the...
AiW Guest: Spemba Elias Spemba. AiW note: this is the first in our 2024 Caine Prize Shortlist Reviews series, of Nigerian writer ‘Pemi Aguda’s shortlisted story, ‘Breastmilk’, published in One Story,...
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Spotlight on… Editing Anthologies: Doorways, Communities, and Reference Texts
With AiW Guests: Chris Abani, Kwame Dawes, Joanne Hichens, and Hilda Twongyeirwe.Edited by: Ashawnta Jackson and Jessica Powers for #readingAfrica 2024 (Catalyst Press). Jackson and Powers:...
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Spotlight Q&A: Editors & Writers talk – Ucheoma Onwutuebe’s ‘Where Are You...
AiW Guests: Ucheoma Onwutuebe and Lydia Mathis. AiW note: what follows is an email conversation between Nigerian writer Ucheoma Onwutuebe and 2023 Editorial Fellow at New York based literary magazine...
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Review: The Social Eyes on Women, Motherhood, and their Being in Elizabeth...
AiW Guest: Tikondwe Chimkowola-Kadaluka. Elizabeth Allua Vaah’s Maame (Mawenzi House, 2020) is not just another clichéd tale about motherhood. Rather, it ties together a myriad of issues, with a...
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Review: Bound to be Re-Read? ‘Bound to Violence’– a Penguin Modern Classic...
By AiW Guest: Lizzy Attree. Author note: Huge thanks for Katie Reid’s editorial support and insight which really enhanced this article and perfected its final form. Le Devoir de Violence / Bound to...
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Review: Ways of Travelling – Kharys Ateh Laue’s ‘Sketches’ (2023)
AiW Guest: Kris Van der Bijl. Sketches front cover. Illustration: Alhyrian Laue. Kharys Ateh Laue’s debut prose work Sketches (MDL SEE, 2023) is recognisably a travelogue. In it, a South African...
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Q&A: Koleka Putuma -Revolutionising the archive and (backspace)...
AiW Guests: Koleka Putuma Interviewed by: Siobhan Bahl, Freya Moulton and Tessa Rhodes On 22 February, 2022 “This is what it is, or what it was, this is the evolution of it all…” Koleka Putuma by...
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Review: Connection and Legacy – Remembering ‘Before Them, We’ (2022)
AiW Guest: Virginia Kelly Before Them, We (flipped eye, London, 2022) is a beautiful anthology of poems and collection of photographs curated by Ruth Sutoyé and Jacob Sam-La Rose. Part of a longer...
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Review: Tragedy and Resilience in Lagos – The Truth About Sadia by Lola Akande
AiW Guest: Ademola Adesola. Ademola with his copy of Akande’s novel Lola Akande’s latest novel, The Truth about Sadia (Tunmike Publishers, 2023), follows Sadia Onaolapo Oyelowo’s journey from childhood...
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Spotlight on… Die Antwoord: the artifice of art, the art of artifice
AiW Guest: Sanya Osha …with a longer form read for us, at around 2.5k words… The recent ‘cancellation’ of Die Antwoord – the South African ‘zef’ subculture-proclaiming, alternative hip hop duo – and...
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Review: Between Self and Selflessness in Protest – ‘Taduno’s Song’ by Odafe...
AiW Guest: Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè. Odafe Atogun’s début novel, Taduno’s Song (2016), is an extended allegory about a people living through the tangle of social oppression and its attendant...
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Q&A: Serawit Bekele Debele —Literatures of the Horn of Africa, a conversation...
AiW Guests Interviewers: Farida Elshafei, Ilana Graham, Lauryn Jenkins, Noha Choudhry. Interviewee: Serawit Bekele Debele. Interview Date: 14th December 2021 AiW note: This is one in a series of...
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Reviews: ‘The porousness of cultural boundaries’ — Thoughts on the...
AiW Guest: Pernille Nailor. AiW note: this is one of two linked reviews of Emeritus Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham, Karin Barber’s latest book, A History of...
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