Credo Mutwa, celebrated South African traditional healer and author of several books, died following a period of ill health on Wednesday, March 25, 2020. He was 98 years old. Mutwa, whose full name is Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, was a sangoma who dedicated his life and writings to the preservation of African cultural practices and mythology. […]
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Maaza Mengiste Receives $10,000 American Academy of Arts & Letters Award in Literature
Ethiopian-American author Maaza Mengiste is one of eight writers to receive the 2020 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Each year, the Academy awards “literature prizes, totaling $350,000, to honor both established and emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry.” Mengiste was recognized alongside Viet Thanh […]
Zambian-American Novelist Namwali Serpell Wins $165,000 as a Recipient of the 2020 Windham-Campbell Prize
Zambian-American author Namwali Serpell is one of the eight authors awarded the 2020 Windham-Campbell Prizes. At $165,000 per winner, the prize is one of the richest literary prizes in the world. The 2020 prize is largely dominated by women. Seven out of the eight are women. Serpell was honored for fiction alongside Chinese-American author Yiyun; […]
20.35 Africa Poetry Series Is Offering Personal Consultations with Cheswayo Mphanza to Help Raise Money to Register the Collective as an NGO
As part of 20.35 Africa’s fundraising efforts to register the poetry collective as an NGO, they are organizing an online one-on-one consultation with award-winning poet Cheswayo Mphanza. The programme, which is scheduled to run from March 9 to March 31, is aimed at helping emerging poets to better understand their craft. It would address such […]
African and Black Writers Featured in TIME’s 100 Women of the Year Project
TIME magazine designed the 100 Women of the Year project to retrospectively recognize influential women in their “Person of the Year” archive. This annual special issue was known as the “Man of the Year” issue until 1999, and until now only recognized 11 women. The magazine commissioned artists to design one hundred new covers celebrating […]
Major British Production Company Acquires Film Rights for Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other
It’s been hard keeping up with Bernardine Evaristo ever since winning the Book Prize launched her into the global literary limelight. The latest addition to this heartwarming strings of achievements is the acquisition of the screen rights to Girl, Woman, Other by Potboiler Television. The British production company is run by BAFTA Award-winning producer Andrea […]
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Her Favorite Musicians, Cities, Food, & Biafra
In a recent interview with Tofarati Ige and Mobola Sadiq of Punch, Chimamanda Adichie discusses writing, the stereotypes attached to feminism, her favorite cities in the world, food, her favorite musicians, and more. *** On the question of African literature not been as sophisticated as their Western counterparts: “That is rubbish. What is the definition […]
Apply for the Anaphora Writing Residency for Writers of Color | Visiting Writers Include Chris Abani, Kwame Dawes, Ladan Osman
The Anaphora Writing Residency is a Los Angeles-based program open exclusively to writers of color. This year, the stellar cast of instructors includes Nigerian writer Chris Abani, Ghanaian poet and academic Kwame Dawes, Somali-born artist Ladan Osman , and Ethiopian-Eritrean writer and visual artist Mahtem Shiferraw, among others. The ten-day residency will run from May […]
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