So maybe reading huge books to kill that lockdown time isn’t your thing. No worries; there are short story collections aplenty for the reader who wants a quick dose of fiction from time to time. Here, we’ve collected sixteen notable recently-published short story collections that were published by sixteen different independent presses — presses which […]
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The Struggle for Kwani?’s Soul | Isaac Otidi Amuke
During a June 2019 Heinrich Böll Stiftung memorial event in Berlin, the novelist Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor delivered a moving tribute to Binyavanga Wainaina, who died in Nairobi on 21 May 2019, aged 48. Owuor, whose Binyavanga-edited and Kwani?-published short story “Weight of Whispers” won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2003—the year after Binyavanga’s […]
Photos from Bakwa Reading Series No. 3 in Yaounde, with Billy Kahora, Edwige Dro, & Florian Ngimbis
The Bakwa Reading Series, organised by Bakwa Magazine editor Dzekashu MacViban, is a public event featuring writers, translators and editors, aimed at connecting them to local communities in different cities in Cameroon. It debuted in May 2017, featuring the writers Nkiacha Atemnkeng, A. Bouna Guazong, Bengono Essola Edouard, and Dipita Kwa. Its second edition, moderated […]
Of Passion and Ink: New Voices from Cameroon | Bakwa Books to Make Publishing Debut with Anthology in May 2019
Leading Cameroon-based magazine Bakwa recently launched a publishing arm, Bakwa Books, to discover and promote fresh voices in Cameroonian literature. The press will make its debut in May 2019, with the anthology Of Passion and Ink: New Voices from Cameroon, a collection of short stories longlisted for the Bakwa Magazine Short Story Prize, with a few […]
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