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Features, Lit Scene 2019/01/04

Read the Transcript of Bibi Bakare-Yusuf’s Keynote Address at the 2018 Abantu Book Festival

For the 2018 Abantu Book Festival, Cassava Republic founder Bibi Bakare-Yusuf was selected to deliver the Keynote Address. The full transcript of her speech, titled “Archival Fever,” is now available on Dipsaus.org. At the end of a year in which Cassava Republic received the London Book Fair’s Inclusivity in Publishing Award and released books that shaped […]

Features, Lit Scene 2019/01/04

Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Stella Nyanzi, Lola Shoneyin, Panashe Chigumadzi Honoured in AWP Network’s 2018 Power List, Alongside Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde, Genevieve Nnaji, and Uzo Aduba

Entrepreneurship platform AWP Network has released its sixth annual “Power Network List” of 40 “African women with powerful, inspiring, and influential voices,” all of whom “create programs and policies that support the development and growth of African women and girls.” Among the 2018 honourees are Cassava Republic founder and Brittle Paper 2018 Person of the […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News 2018/12/22

The 2018 Brittle Paper African Literary Person of the Year Is Bibi Bakare-Yusuf

The Brittle Paper African Literary Person of the Year recognizes individuals who work behind the scenes to hold up the African literary establishment in the given year. Our 2018 honour goes to Dr. Bibi Bakare-Yusuf for her long service and leadership in publishing. As Publishing Director of one of Africa’s most beloved indie presses, Cassava Republic, […]

Chimamanda Adichie Is Coming to South Africa for the 2018 Abantu Festival

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is coming to South Africa for the 2018 Abantu Book Festival. The announcement was made this morning on Twitter by the festival organizers. She joins a list of guests that includes Cassava Republic founder Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, This Mournable Body author Tsitsi Dangarembga, Fred Khumalo, Helon Habila, Happiness Is a Four-Letter Word author […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News 2018/05/17

Writing in Migration | Photos from the Festival of African Writers in Berlin

Last month, the Nigerian-German novelist Olumide Popoola, author of When We Speak of Nothing, curated a star-studded festival of African writers in Berlin. The event, held from 26–28 April at Kino Babylon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 3010178, Berlin, was themed “Writing in Migration” and was presented by the literary agency InterKontinental. It was sponsored by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and Berlin’s Senate Department for […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News 2018/05/02

Cassava Republic Wins London Book Fair’s 2018 Inclusivity in Publishing International Excellence Award

Cassava Republic has been awarded the Inclusivity in Publishing Award at the 2018 London Book Fair’s International Excellence Awards. The awards are sponsored by Hytex and held in association with the Publishers Association. The London Book Fair—held this year from 10-12 April, 2018—is an annual gathering of publishers, writers, editors, literary agents, booksellers, journalists, and every other group within the […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News, Stories and Poems 2018/02/12

The Brittle Paper Digest: 79 Notable Pieces of 2017

It isn’t that time of the year when we look back on what happened in it—that time is December, and this is February. But a delay in releasing this list seemed inevitable for a year that, on several levels, saw our literary culture expand. Organisations took groundbreaking steps: in March, Jalada Africa held a 12-city, […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News 2017/12/22

Olumide Popoola to Curate Star-Studded 2018 Berlin Festival of African Writers

Olumide Popoola, Nigerian-German author of When We Speak of Nothing, will be curating a star-studded 2018 festival of African writers in Berlin. The event, themed “Writing in Migration,” is presented by the literary agency InterKontinental, and will be attended by writers from Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, DR Congo, Zimbabwe, and Ghana. For the first […]

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