In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re sharing with you some pictures we found on the world wide web of contemporary African women authors as kids. All these authors are also contributors to the monumental anthology New Daughters of Africa (2019), edited by Margaret Busby. Enjoy this walk back through time! (P.S. Head over to […]
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What We are Reading This Week | A Novel Honoring the Emotional Truth of Women’s Lives
On week three of women’s history month, we are celebrating a novel that centers the emotional truth of a woman’s life. Ayobami Adebayo’s debut novel Stay With Me was quite the rave when it came out in 2018. It received massive shout outs from Margaret Atwood and New York Times royalty Michiko Kakutani. Stay With […]
Ainehi Edoro’s Feminism in African Lit Course at UW-Madison Theorizes Mona Eltahawy, Nnedi Okorafor, Titilope Sonuga, Wanuri Kahiu, & Beyonce
As part of her Spring 2020 programme, Brittle Paper founder Ainehi Edoro will be teaching a course, “Feminism in Contemporary African Literature,” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of English, where she is Assistant Professor, and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies. The course, she wrote in a Facebook post, is inspired by the Egyptian […]
Saraba Magazine Will Be Appointing a New Editorial Team | How to Apply
APPLY TO JOIN SARABA MAGAZINE EDITORIAL TEAM: PRESS RELEASE Saraba, the acclaimed literary magazine based in Nigeria, calls for applications for a new editorial team, including an Editor, Fiction Editor, Poetry Editor, Nonfiction Editor, and an Assistant Editor. Since 2009, the editorial team has included Emmanuel Iduma and Dami Ajayi, the magazine’s founders, and other […]
Ayobami Adebayo Wins the 9Mobile Prize for Literature, for Stay with Me
Two weeks after the prize’s Board resigned and the prize reiterated its commitment to announcing a winner 18 months after it released a shortlist, the Nigerian Ayobami Adebayo has been named the winner of the 2017/18 9Mobile Prize for Literature, for her much-honoured debut novel Stay with Me. The shortlist also included the Nigerian Lesley […]
The 9Mobile Prize for Literature Says It Will Announce a 2018 Winner, 18 Months After the Shortlist
The Etisalat Prize for Literature was founded in 2012 by the telecommunications company Etisalat Nigeria. Worth £15,000, it recognized the best debut book by an African writer. It was won by Zimbabwe’s NoViolet Bulawayo in 2014, for We Need New Names; South Africa’s Songheziwe Mahlangu in 2015, for Penumbra; the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Fiston […]
Apply to BookArtArea’s Free 5-Day Writing Masterclass with Teju Cole, Emmanuel Iduma, & Ayobami Adebayo
BookArtArea, the educational initiative of Angels and Muse, the popular artists’ co-working space in Lagos, is calling for applications to its free creative writing masterclass. To be taught by Teju Cole, Emmanuel Iduma and Ayobami Adebayo, the masterclass will take place at Angels and Muse, over five days, from 5 August to 9 August, and […]
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