We are delighted to announce the shortlists for the 2018 Brittle Paper Awards. Begun in 2017 to mark our seventh anniversary, the Awards aim to recognize the finest, original pieces of writing by Africans published online. The $1,100 cash prize is split across five categories: the Brittle Paper Award for Fiction ($200), the Brittle Paper Award […]
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Ama Ata Aidoo, Haruna Ayesha Attah Among Guests for 2018 Accra International Book Festival
The 2018 Accra International Book Festival will be held from 6-9 September, to coincide with the International Literacy Day on September 8. The festival theme is “Amplify,” which “emphasises the power of the writer to shape the destiny of his people by capturing their hurts, pains, and worries in their projects.” The programme is aimed at promoting a […]
How Contemporary African Novelists Have Embraced Historical Fiction
Most of the best-known Africa-set African novels of the last five years are works of historical fiction: from Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust (2013), from Kenya, and Jennifer Makumbi’s Kintu (2014), from Uganda, to Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees (2015), from Nigeria, Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016), from Ghana, Peter Kimani’s Dance of the Jakaranda (2016), […]
WATCH | Haruna Ayesha Attah Announces New Novel Set During the Slave Trade in Ghana
Haruna Ayesha Attah is the author of two novels: the Commonwealth Prize-shortlisted Harmattan Rain (2009) and the Kwani? Manuscript Contest-nominated Saturday’s Shadows (2015). Ayesha is a 2014 Africa Centre Artists in Residency Award Laureate and Instituto Sacatar Fellow. In 2016, she won the Miles Morland Scholarship to write a nonfiction book about kolanuts. Her third novel, The Hundred Wells […]
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