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Words on the Times & Call for Entries: Paige Nick, the GBAS Book Cover Design...
AiW Guest: Paige Nick. AiW note: today we bring you a combination post ~ a Words on the Times with Paige Nick – founder of The Good Book Appreciation Society, a Book Club on Facebook with over 16,000...
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Q&A – Siphiwo Mahala: Imbiza Journal for African Writing Words on the Times
AiW Guest: Siphiwo Mahala. AIW note: Today we offer a Words on the Times Q&A from Siphiwo Mahala, Editor of Imbiza Journal for African Writing. Our Words on the Times series (available at the link)...
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“Our discomfort, my discomfort”: a review of ‘Anxious Joburg: The Inner Lives...
AiW Guest: Kagiso Nko. It is part of how Joburg narrates itself, in particular to itself. Editors’ Introduction – Nicky Falkof and Cobus van Staden. AiW note: This review of Anxious Joburg (Wits UP)...
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Q&A: Dr. Emmanuel E. Akanwa Interviews Gil Ndi-Shang on his newest...
With AiW Guests: Emmanuel E. Akanwa and Gil Ndi-Shang. AiW note: The Radio and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Cameroonian writer, Gil Ndi-Shang, recently released with Spears Books....
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Q&A – iwalewabooks Words on the Times
AiW note: Today we bring you an inspiring Words on the Times – a Q&A series initiated to connect up our experiences of life and work as the pandemic hit – with the publishing house iwalewabooks....
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Q&A: On the NLNG Prize for Literary Criticism – Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè...
AiW Guests: Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè and NLNG Prize for Literary Criticism winner 2020/2021, Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike. And the winner of the Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism is… AiW note: We...
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Q&A – Ayo Oyeku Words on the Times
AiW note: Today we bring you an inspiring Words on the Times – a Q&A series initiated to connect up our experiences of life and work as the pandemic hit – with writer and publisher Ayo Oyeku. Ayo...
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Victims and Prey: The Agency of the Body Merchants in Billie McTernan’s “The...
AiW Guest: Nnaemeka Ezema (Nigeria) AiW note: we’ve been holding a series of critical conversations around the work of the Caine Prize, now the AKO Caine Prize, each year since we first joined its...
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The glue that binds: Hannah Giorgis’“A Double-Edged Inheritance”– AKO Caine...
AiW Guest: Megan Brune (South Africa) AiW note: we’ve been holding a series of critical conversations around the work of the Caine Prize, now the AKO Caine Prize, each year since we first joined its...
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‘Till Death Do Us Part’: A Review of ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’ by Nana-Ama...
AiW Guest: Joseph Kwanya (Kenya) Today’s post is the third of our annual guest reviews of the 5 stories shortlisted for the award in 2022. We’ll also be running Q&As with authors and others...
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“Sacks tied around our necks”: Joshua Chizoma’s ‘Collector of Memories’– AKO...
AiW Guest: Innocent Akilimale Ngulube (Malawi) AiW note: The penultimate in our annual guest reviews of the 2022 AKO Caine Prize 5 shortlisted stories runs today. We’ll also be publishing Q&As...
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The illusion of choice: a review of “Five Years Next Sunday” by Idza Luhumyo...
AiW Guest: Yamikani Mlangiza (Malawi) AiW note: Today’s post is the fifth in our annual guest reviews of the 2022 AKO Caine Prize 5 shortlisted stories. We’ll also be publishing Q&As with the...
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Review: “What language is he speaking?” – Musicians Abroad in Jamal Mahjoub’s...
AiW Guest: Camilla Delhanty Jamal Mahjoub’s The Fugitives (Canongate, 2021) is a novel in three parts, detailing the reformation of the fictional Khartoum jazz band, the Kamanga Kings. We open with...
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Q&A: George Norman Sylvester – Ananse comics, Captain Pepsodent and African...
AiW Guest: Tessa Pijnaker. This post forms part of an Africa in Words’ series on African superheroes, guest edited by Tessa Pijnaker, PhD student in African Studies and Anthropology at the University...
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Q&A: Mukoma Wa Ngugi – teasing out the Tizita, and probing poetry and prizes
AiW Guests: Meriel Clode, Lisa Walker, Antonia Cheema-Grubb & Harriet Lewis. Mukoma Wa Ngugi is a US-based Kenyan writer, who was born in Illinois and grew up in Nairobi. He is the author of eight...
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Review: “Growing up lesbian in Nigeria”: Unoma Azuah’s “Embracing My Shadow”
AiW Guest: Pernille Nailor. Written in a clear and powerful language that commands our immediate attention, Unoma Azuah’s latest publication, Embracing My Shadow, is a moving and powerful memoir...
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Refocusing Le Retour: Three Franco-Senegalese Works
AiW Guest: Sebastian Boivin. In an increasingly dynamic and interconnected geopolitical and socioeconomic landscape, so many of us think about the journey of migrants; fewer about their return. Work...
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Q&A – #ReadingAfrica: African Literary Magazine Editors on Curating for the...
With AiW Guests: Nzube Nlebedim – The Shallow Tales Review, Mazi Nwonwu – Omenana Magazine, and Kenechi Uzor – Iskanchi Magazine, interviewed by SarahBelle Selig of Catalyst Press. AiW note:...
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Spotlight on… Afrobeats ascendant – into 2023
AiW Guest: Sanya Osha. Afrobeats is arguably a musical genre that initially evolved tied to the apron strings, albeit tenuously, of the magnificent legacy of Nigeria’s Fela Kuti – but one that has...
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Review Q&A: with author Ever Obi – Some Angels Don’t See God (2022)
AiW Guests: Tọ́pẹ́-ẸniỌbańkẹ́ Adégòkè with author Ever Obi. Ever Obi at the Lagos reading of Some Angels Don’t See God. With thanks to Ever Obi. This Q&A and twinned review, “The Past Is Never...
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