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At Prestigious Yale Literary Festival, Africanness Affirmed: Ifeanyi Awachie...
AiW Guest: Ifeanyi Awachie As a Nigerian-American undergraduate at Yale, I was both impressed by my university’s grandeur and accustomed not to expect the institution’s most illustrious visitors or...
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Review: Lara Pawson’s ‘In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Massacre’
AiW Guest: John Spall. English language books on Angola aren’t published very often, or indeed, many books at all written by non-Angolans. Despite Angola’s civil war ending over 13 years ago,...
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Borderless Words: The Lagos International Poetry Festival 2015
AiW Guest: Iquo DianaAbasi The Lagos International Poetry Festival 2015 was themed ‘Borderless Words’, aptly so in this period of migrations within Africa and across Europe. The organizers say that in...
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Review: poetry from Modjaji Books –‘Now the World Takes These Breaths’ by...
AiW Guest: Tom Penfold. Now the World Takes These Breaths by Joan Metelerkamp Joan Metelerkamp is one of the most consistent and articulate poets of South Africa’s post-apartheid literary landscape....
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Fiction Writing Workshop with Taiye Selasi, Nnedi Okorafor and Helon Habila:...
Africa in Words Guest: Socrates Mbamalu Now in its third year, the Aké Arts and Book Festival is perhaps not only the largest and best organised gathering of African writers on the continent, but also...
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Review: Ebola ’76 by Amir Tag-Elsir
AiW Guest: Réhab Abdelghany Ebola ’76 is a short novel by acclaimed Sudanese writer Amir Tag-Elsir, whose The Grub Hunter (2010) was short-listed for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011...
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Q&A: Uche Peter Umez interviews poet Efe Paul Azino
AiW Guest: Uche Peter Umez Efe Paul Azino at the 2015 Ake Arts and Books Festival © Victor Ehikhamenor Widely regarded as one of Nigeria’s leading performance poets, Efe Paul Azino has been a...
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Review: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’
AiW Guest: Danielle Faye Tran. “It is my wish […] that people should know I died of AIDS” (27) -from a letter written by character Zola to be read aloud at her vigil The spread of HIV creates a tense...
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Q&A with ‘Imagine Africa 500’ authors Muthi Nhlema and Tiseke Chilima
AiW Guest Joanna Woods With the publication of Pan African Publisher’s new speculative fiction anthology, Imagine Africa 500, two featured writers from Malawi, Muthi Nhlema and Tiseke Chilima, join me...
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Review: Bearing Heavy Things by Liyou Libsekal
This month, Guest Reviewer Rehaana Manek continues our deep dive into the Eight New Generation African Poets. Libsekal writes as though she has witnessed. Witnessed violence, witnessed empathy,...
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Q&A: Juwairiyya Asmal-Lee interviews Ankara Press author Amina Thula
AiW Guest: Juwairiyya Asmal-Lee Amina Thula is the author of two Ankara Press novels: The Elevator Kiss, published in December 2014, and the forthcoming Love Next Door, which will be released on 14...
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Reading Lessons: The Chronic (“New Cartographies,” March 2015)
AiW Guest: Ed Charlton. When it comes to alliances and accords, Africa is full of them. Whether it is bilateral extradition treaties, regional trade agreements, or the pan-continental constitution of...
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I Am Not Done with African Immigrant Literature
AiW Guest Shadreck Chikoti I get afraid, very afraid, when somebody, anybody, prescribes to me which books to read and not to read. When somebody gives me a template of what African literature ought to...
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Of Lagos, startups, cigarettes and prostitutes: a Nigerian writer unveils his...
AiW Guest: Leye Adenle Leye Adenle discusses how an encounter with a sex worker led to him giving her the central role in his first feature-length novel. This is part of our joint series with the LSE...
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Review: Kholofelo Maenetsha’s ‘To the Black Women We All Knew’
AiW Guest: Helen Cousins. What a bittersweet eulogy this is to the suffering of Black women at the hands (and often the fists) of Black men; not always surviving, as indicated by the past tense of the...
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Souffles turns 50: Remembering the “Breath” of Moroccan Francophone Literature
AiW Guest: Khalid Lyamlahy Khalid Lyamlahy recalls the role played by Moroccan review Souffles in initiating a new cultural movement in 1960s Morocco. This is part of our joint series with the LSE...
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Home is now; home is never, now you see it, now you don’t: A Review of ‘From...
AiW Guest Shadreck Chikoti A few months ago we laid to rest Professor Steve Chimombo, one of the leading writers from Malawi, a man of exceptional talent, unwavering in his passion for the arts. His...
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Review: Ivan Vladislavić’s 101 Detectives
AiW Guest: Thando Njovane. As demonstrated by his substantial and sophisticated body of work, South Africa’s Ivan Vladislavić is certainly one of the most remarkable and versatile writers of our time....
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Memory and the Cartography of Dismembered Parts: A Review of Peter Akinlabi’s...
AiW Guest: Iquo DianaAbasi Eke. This month, AiW Guest, poet Iquo DianaAbasi Eke, continues our deep dive in The Eight New Generation African Poets with her review of Peter Akinlabi’s A Pagan Place. In...
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Future Visions: Five Breakout Talents in African Film Today
AiW Guest: Sarah Jilani © Film Africa Returning to screens across London this past November, the Royal African Society’s annual Film Africa festival celebrated and promoted filmmaking from various...
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