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Features, Lit Scene, News September 4, 2018

The 2018 CODE Burt Award for Young Adult African Literature Goes to Kenya’s Kinyanjui Kombani

The 2018 CODE Burt Award for Young Adult African Literature has gone to Kenya’s Kinyanjui Kombani for his book Finding Colombia. Kinyanjui received a cash prize of $10,000 CDN, while his publisher, Oxford University Press, East Africa Limited, received a guaranteed purchase of 2,000 copies for distribution in Kenya, another 2,000 copies for distribution in Tanzania, and […]

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Features, Lit Scene, News September 11, 2017

CODE’s Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature Unveils 2017 All-Stars Shortlist

CODE has announced the shortlist for its All-Stars Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature. Unlike its previous editions, this one considered “all of the first prize winners of CODE’s Burt Award in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania since 2009.” Founded in 2008 in Tanzania by CODE, “Canada’s leading international development organization uniquely focused on advancing […]

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Features July 13, 2020

What Does Tragedy Have to do With Grief? — Prof. Ato Quayson on a New Episode of Critics.Reading.Writing

Professor Ato Quayson YouTube Channel Critic, Reading, Writing (1)

The first episode of Professor Ato Quayson’s youtube show is up! Ato Quayson is a Professor of English at Stanford […]

Features July 13, 2020

Saara El-Arifi’s Signs 2 Six-Figure Deals for Her Debut Novel The Final Strife

Saara El-Arifi's The Final Strife Double Six-Figure Deals

Sudanese-Arab-Ghanaian-British author Saara El-Arifi won big last week. Her debut novel The Final Strife landed a double six-figure deal in the […]

Features July 13, 2020

The Nigeria Prize for Difference and Diversity Announces Judges and Advisory Council

The Nigeria Prize for Difference and Diversity Announces Judges and Advisory Council (3)

The Nigeria Prize for Difference and Diversity has announced the judges for the inaugural award and the advisory board. The […]

Features July 13, 2020

BBC 4 to Broadcast Reading of Abi Daré’s The Girl with the Louding Voice

BBC 4 to Broadcast The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

Abi Daré’s The Girl with the Louding Voice will be narrated on BBC 4 by actress Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo. The novel […]

Features July 10, 2020

The 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize is Now Open for Entry

Apply for the 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize

The Aspen Words Literary Prize is open for entry as of today. The $35,000 prize annually rewards an “influential work […]

Features July 8, 2020

July 10 | Sarah Ladipo Manyika Hosts Strive Masiyiwa on Conversations Across the Diaspora

July 10 _ Sarah Ladipo Manyika Hosts Strive Masiyiwas on Conversations Across the Diaspora

Sarah Ladipo Manyika, author of In Dependence (2008) and Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016), has teamed up […]