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Features, Lit Scene, News 2018/09/04

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 2017/09/11

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 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 […]