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Features, Lit Scene, News 2018/04/06

Inaugural Graywolf Press Africa Prize Goes to Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s “Sumptuous, Bold” Magical Realist Novel Manuscript

Last September, we brought news of the launch of the Graywolf Press Africa Prize, judged by A. Igoni Barrett. The inaugural Prize has now been awarded to Kenya’s Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, for her novel manuscript The House of Rust. The Prize is given for a first novel manuscript by an African resident in Africa. The […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News 2017/09/20

The Graywolf Press Africa Prize Launches with Igoni A. Barrett as Judge

A new award just dropped: the Graywolf Press Africa Prize, for “a first novel manuscript by an African author primarily residing in Africa.” The inaugural prize will be judged by Igoni A. Barrett, author of the 2013 short story collection, Love Is Power, or Something Like That, and the 2015 novel Blackass, “in conjunction with the Graywolf editors.” In […]

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Features 2019/02/15

PHOTOS | The Asmara Addis Literary Festival in Exile: a Pan-African Event for Feminism, Free Love, and Radical Ideas

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The inaugural Asmara Addis Literary Festival in Exile was held from 8–10 February 2019, in Brussels, Belgium. Founded by Eritrean-Ethiopian novelist […]

Features 2019/02/12

Fever | Sarah Lubala | Poetry

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In a Bali hotel room I shed electricity some quirk of the medication tends and stokes kindles against me […]

Features 2019/02/11

The University of Dar es Salaam to Host Ceremony for the 2018 Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature

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The 2018 winners of the Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature winners will be honoured at the University of Dar es […]

Features 2019/02/11

Death’s Swoop | Andile Ndlovu | Fiction

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On the morning of our mother’s funeral, three women showed up unannounced and unavoidably. Three women I had seen […]

Features 2019/02/10

A Dead Deer from the Past | Romeo Oriogun | Memoir

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WHEN HE PASSED BY ME FOR the first time, I was on my second glass of Venus Portion, a cocktail made […]

Features 2019/02/10

Trifonia Melibea Obono’s La Bastarda, the First English-Language Novel by a Woman from Equatorial Guinea, Honoured by Global Literature in Libraries Initiative Prize

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Trifonia Melibea Obono’s La Bastarda, the first English-language novel by a woman from Equatorial Guinea, has been named an honour […]