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Review: They Called You Dambudzo: A Memoir by Flora Veit-Wild
AiW Guest: Lizzy Attree. Flora Veit-Wild presents this compelling book as a memoir, and it does contain some personal details of her early life in Germany which supplement and enrich the portrayal of...
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Q&A: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike interviews Abubakar Adam Ibrahim about his...
AiW note: Dreams and Assorted Nightmares is Ibrahim’s third book and second story collection, newly released with Masobe Books. In the interview below, Umezurike and Ibrahim discuss the...
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Remembering Olive Schreiner 100 Years After Her Death
AiW Guest: Jade Munslow Ong. AiW note: The 11th of December 2020 marks 100 years since Olive Schreiner’s death. Here, Jade Munslow Ong discusses Schreiner’s legacies as a pioneering feminist,...
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Review of “Paul Mpagi Sepuya”: ‘between desired object and desiring subject’.
AiW Guest: Stacey Kennedy. Paul Mpagi Sepuya forms an intriguing monograph which surveys Sepuya’s complex and provocative visual language as he explores the potential of blackness and desire in the...
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Review: A Community Forms, a Community Mourns: The Death of Vivek Oji
AiW Guest: Rashi Rohatgi. We’ve been a fan of Akwaeke Emezi’s writing since the pre-launch of their debut, Freshwater, at Africa Writes 2018; after that luminous novel and its YA successor, Pet, Emezi...
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Review: Billy Kahora’s The Cape Cod Bicycle War and Other Stories (1)
AiW Guest: Ofonime Inyang. AiW note: This week, we bring you two reviews of Billy Kahora’s short story collection, The Cape Cod Bicycle Wars and Other Stories – originally published by Huza Press...
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Q&A with Ayesha Harruna Attah: The Deep Blue Between
AiW Guests: Trang Vu, Hannah Judge & Naomi Osborne. Ayesha Harruna Attah is a Senegal-based Ghanaian writer. She is the author of Harmattan Rain, Saturday’s Shadows and The Hundred Wells of Salaga...
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Q&A with Writer and Publisher Nii Ayikwei Parkes: ‘The thing about any book,...
AiW Guests: Lottie McGrath, Charlie Renwick, Eloise Percy-Davis and Tilly Everard. Nii Ayikwei Parkes is an acclaimed British-Ghanaian poet, writer, and publisher. Winner of multiple international...
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Q&A with Femi Kayode, author of Lightseekers
AiW Guest: Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè. AiW note: Femi Kayode grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. He studied Clinical Psychology at the University of Ibadan and has worked in advertising over the last two...
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Tasting Feelings: A Review of Iquo DianaAbasi’s ‘Efo Riro’
AiW Guest: Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè. Iquo DianaAbasi’s debut collection of short stories, Efo Riro (Parresia 2020), puts meat on the bones of the observation that the sense of taste is somehow wired...
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“Such noise and screams and blood”: A Review of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s...
AiW Guest: Judyannet Muchiri. AiW note: Abdulrazak Gurnah will be in conversation about his most recent novel Afterlives (Bloomsbury 2020) with Novoyu Rose Tshuma (House of Stone 2018 – see our AiW...
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Q&A with Abdulrazak Gurnah about latest novel ‘Afterlives’: “These stories...
By AiW Guest: Judyannet Muchiri. AiW note: Abdulrazak Gurnah will be in conversation with Novoyu Rose Tshuma (House of Stone) about his most recent novel Afterlives (Bloomsbury 2020) on March 30th in...
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Review: A Reckoning with East Africa’s Colonial Histories – Abdulrazak...
AiW Guest: Florian Stadtler. AiW note: Stadtler’s review is the third in a series of AiW posts introducing Abdulrazak Gurnah’s latest novel Afterlives (Bloomsbury, 2020) in the run up to the third...
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“We can draw from the past and create something new, or we can just present...
AiW Guests: Isobella Norman, Leyla Mohammed and Leoni Fretwell. Wanjeri Gakuru Wanjeri Gakuru is a freelance journalist, essayist and filmmaker invested in gender equality and social justice. From...
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Q&A: Words on the Times – Lizzy Attree
AiW note: Earlier this week we published Lizzy Attrees’s review of They Called You Dambudzo: A Memoir by Flora Veit-Wild (2021, Jacana Media). At the book’s centre is the double heartbeat of...
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Q&A: Words on the Times – Dami Ajayi
“Here are stories that are true … because they are windows that open into our contemporary African existence” (Editors’ Introduction, Limbe to Lagos, p. xi).” AiW note: Last week we published a review...
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Celebrating World Poetry Day with readings from Wreaths for A Wayfarer
AiW Guests: Nduka Otiono and Uche Peter Umezurike. AiW note: by way of introduction to our Guest post here, we are very pleased to be able to share with the editors news of the African release of...
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Q&A: Words on the Times – Nduka Otiono
AiW Guest: Nduka Otiono, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada AiW note: Yesterday we celebrated the African release of Wreaths for a Wayfarer (Narrative Landscape Press), published in honour of writer,...
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Q&A: Words on the Times – Teesa Bahana of 32° East I Ugandan Arts Trust
AiW note: Following Lizzy Attree’s Word on the Times, in which she spoke about teaching and fundraising during a pandemic, Dami Ajayi’s Word on the Times, in which he discussed his experiences of...
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Q&A with Abubakar Adam Ibrahim: “Writing the history of the present”
AiW Guests: Yasmine Arasteh, Skye Frewin & Sally Wright. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim is a prominent Nigerian writer and journalist. He is the author of the short story collection The Whispering Trees...
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