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Floating on the Southbank with Mulatu Astatke: Review, Africa Utopia
AiW Guest Lennon Chido Mhishi By the time the music has started playing, I am excited inside already. For a moment my mind is lost somewhere, and I only realise then that there was a solo on the piano,...
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Publishing in Africa and African Studies: Review, ASAUK 2014 (Part 1)
AiW Guest Stephanie Kitchen A stream of five panels at ASAUK considered ‘practical and political aspects of publishing in African studies’. The stream brought together representatives from key...
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Publishing in Africa and African Studies: Review, ASAUK 2014 (Part 2)
AiW Guest Stephanie Kitchen This post is the second in a two part series reviewing the panels in the Publishing Stream at ASAUK. Read Part 1: the politics of publishing in Africa. Journal publishing...
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Mxolisi Nyezwa’s ‘Malikhanye': Are there words?
AiW Guest: Tom Penfold. ‘Malikhanye': Are there words? i cannot understand why man exists and why things happen Mxolisi Nyezwa is a South African poet and Malikhanye (2011),[1] published by Deep South...
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Africa 39 in Conversation: Review, Storymoja Festival
AiW Guest Alexander Nderitu Writers from the Africa39 list were in conversation at this year’s Storymoja Festival which took place from 17th to 21st September in Nairobi, Kenya. The young authors, ably...
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Reflections: Open Book (17-21 September, 2014)
AiW Guest Zukiswa Wanner Arrivals I receive my invitation to Open Book in March 2014. Just the way I like it. It’s a good six months before the Festival and I can mark my calendar accordingly. My...
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s ‘Weep Not, Child’– 50 Years On
AiW Guest Sarah Jilani This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not, Child. When the novel was originally published in 1964 by Heinemann’s African Writers Series, its author...
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Between Imagination and Madness: Matière grise (2011) – review
AiW Guest Catherine Gilbert Matière grise (Grey Matter), 2011. Directed by Kivu Ruhorahoza. 110 min. Kinyarwanda and French with English subtitles. 2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of the genocide...
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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s ‘Kintu’ Made Me Want to Tell Our Stories
AiW Guest Nyana Kakoma When upcoming writers like me hear that Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi started writing Kintu in 2003, we despair. We reach into that part of our brain that always doubts that we will...
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Abderrahmane Sissako’s ‘Timbuktu’ (2014): Film Africa, Review
AiW Guest Sarah Jilani © Film Africa Returning to London for its fourth year, the Royal African Society’s Film Africa 2014 festival brought a wealth of diverse voices from Africa and beyond in a...
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Literary Studies at the African Studies Association 2014: Review
AiW Guest Nathan Suhr-Sytsma The 57th annual meeting of the African Studies Association took place in Indianapolis over the weekend of 20-23rd November, under the theme ‘Rethinking Violence,...
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Q&A: Felwine Sarr – Writer, musician and co-founder of Jimsaan publishing...
Interview and translation by AiW Guest Ruth Bush Felwine Sarr co-founded Editions Jimsaan in 2012. His co-founders are Boubacar Boris Diop and Nafissatou Dia Diouf, both leading figures in the...
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Review: Transition Magazine’s Special Issue on Nelson Mandela (116)
AiW Guest Kristen Roupenian A surprising number of essays in Transition’s special issue on Nelson Mandela share the same basic argument: in the ongoing transformation of Mandela into a global icon,...
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What Are Publishers Looking For in Fiction?: Report from Ake Festival,...
AiW Guest Emma Shercliff The theme of the second Ake Festival, which took place from 18-22 November 2014 in Abeokuta, Nigeria, was ‘Bridges and Pathways’. Festival Director Lola Shoneyin had emphasized...
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Teaching Africa: the Great War in Africa
Africa in Words Guest Anne Samson: Ready packaged resources for those who want to explore the Great War in Africa are scarce. However, that shouldn’t put teachers and other educators off doing so as...
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‘This is literary achievement; where is yours?’ Radio Ghana’s ‘The Singing...
Africa in Words Guest Victoria Smith: On 28th January 1955 the Ghanaian song Yaa Nom Montie played for the first time on radio as the theme music of the country’s first literary programme, Singing Net....
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The Literature Gap in African Legal Academia
AiW Guest Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire Writing for Africa in Words in May 2014, Dustin Zacks presented a case for the inclusion of African Literature in American legal academia. The case for the inclusion of...
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Review – Jacob Dlamini’s Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal
AiW Guest: James Smith. On Jacob Dlamini’s Askari: A story of collaboration and betrayal in the anti-apartheid struggle (Jacana Media, 2014). To many the mere notion of an askari challenges. In the...
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Africa Travels, Africa Writes. Notes on African Intellectual Mobilities.
AiW guests: Janet Remmington and Nicklas Hållén Typically Africa has been framed as a destination, not source, of travellers. Also it has been taken to be the subject, not origin, of texts. Travel and...
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A brief introduction to South African house music
AiW guest: Tom Simmert In the end it’s all DJ Lunga’s fault. Without the feature about him and his label Baainar Records in the German magazine BEAT, I’d never (or at least much later) have thought...
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