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Review: Moses Tladi UNEARTHED, South African National Gallery, 24 September...
AiW Guest: Anthea Gordon To get to the South African National Art Gallery (SANG) you walk through the Company Gardens in Cape Town’s city centre. After passing baobab trees, a rose garden, and...
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Living in and through Zambia: Review of Tanvi Bush’s ‘Witch Girl’ (Modjaji...
AiW Guest: Gráinne O’Connell Witch Girl is a 2015 novel that reads like a play. Indeed, I hope to see more titles by this author, including plays. The title of the book, Witch Girl, reflects in part...
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Q& A: “It’s just not enough to be a lawyer”– Sophie Alal on law and literature
AiW Author: Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire Sophie Alal, photo courtesy Deyu African Sophie Alal founded Deyu African, a non-profit that publishes folk tales, literary work, commentary and journalism about arts...
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Telling the African Story: A Review of Janet Kofi-Tsekpo’s Yellow Iris
AiW Guest: Jovia Salifu This month, Jovia Salifu continues our deep dive into Eight New Generation African Poets. As a lover of poetry, it is always a wonderful feeling to come across beautiful poetry....
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Q&A: Law is a form of literature – Busingye Kabumba
Busingye Kabumba AiW Author: Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire Dr. Busingye Kabumba teaches Human Rights and International Law at Makerere and other universities. Educated at the University of Pretoria, Harvard,...
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Q&A: Justice is merely a feeling – Peter Kagayi
AiW Author: Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire Peter Kagayi, image via Writers of the Pearl Peter Kagayi is a Ugandan poet and lawyer. Recently announced as Anglophone coordinator at Writivism, he has taught...
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Q&A with Ernest Emenyonu on African Children’s Literature
At the recent African Literature Association conference in Atlanta, Africa in Words had the opportunity to speak with Ernest N. Emenyonu, Professor and Chair of the Africana Studies department at the...
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The Truth outside Context: Jumoke Verissimo reviews Elnathan John’s Born on a...
This review of Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday is the first in a series of reviews of books published by Cassava Republic Press that we’ll be running over coming weeks to celebrate the launch of...
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Caine Prize 2016: “Memories We Lost”—The Text, Its Readers and the World, a...
AiW Guest Pede Hollist Lidudumalingani The biography at the end of “Memories We Lost” quotes South African writer, filmmaker, and photographer Lidudumalingani as saying, “I am fascinated by mental...
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Review: Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
AiW Author Sarah Jilani With her faithful old Porsche Buttercup, her toe-rings and her zest for life, Dr. Morayo Da Silva is a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman whose 75th birthday is just around the corner....
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Les Blancs – Farber’s production provoked reflection on innocence, the...
AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin The National Theatre’s production of Lorraine Hansberry’s play, Les Blancs, directed by Yaël Farber, involved phenomenal use of sound, music and lighting, live fire on stage,...
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An Interview with Prof. Ernest Nneji Emenyonu on Pita Nwana’s Omenuko
AiW Guest: Kalapi Sen It is a truism in today’s world that ‘African literature’ covers a major portion of literary scholarship, included now on high-school syllabi as well as at undergraduate and...
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Rwandan hip-hop poet Eric 1Key: Entre 2
AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the first in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of...
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Eric 1Key’s Entre 2 -Virtually Yours, an ‘online love story’
AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the second in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of...
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Eric 1Key’s Entre 2: a ‘story about a hero and a coward’
AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the third in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of...
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Eric 1Key’s Entre 2: Gene Aise, 1Key’s life story
AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the final post in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations...
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Sahel Sounds: Inspiration from West Africa
AiW Guest: Kev Kelly This post originally appeared on Sign Records’ blog and is re-published with their permission. We love Sahel Sounds. Set up by the adventurous Christopher Kirkley, it started as a...
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Q&A: Uche Peter Umez interviews poet Obiwu
AiW Guest: Uche Peter Umez ‘Poetry is sometimes the only glimmer of hope in the darkest corners and most difficult conditions of life.’ – Obiwu Obiwu (photo by 1buRi6hw4n courtesy Wikimedia Commons)...
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Q&A: Safia Elhillo on her Sillerman Prize-winning collection January Children
Sudanese by way of Washington, DC, a Cave Canem fellow and poetry editor at Kinfolks Quarterly: a journal of black expression, Safia Elhillo received an MFA in poetry at the New School. Safia is a...
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Film preview: ‘My Name is Adil’– a lyrical autobiography of displacement and...
AiW Author: Sarah Jilani Sarah Jilani previews My Name is Adil, which is showing this week in selected cinemas as part of the Royal African Society’s Film Africa festival 2016, running from Oct 28 –...
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