Ghanaian author Ayesha Harruna Attah’s The Hundred Wells of Salaga and Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body have been shortlisted for the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Also shortlisted is American author of Ghanaian heritage Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah for his novel Friday Black. Founded in 2003, the William Saroyan International Prize for […]
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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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