On November 5, 2019, African Twitter was abuzz with the news that Lionheart (2018), Nigeria’s first ever submission to the Academy Awards, was disqualified on the grounds that it contained too much English dialogue. The disqualification provoked Twitter responses from several African authors and other prominent individuals of the African literary scene who have written or […]
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Kalaf Epalanga, Angolan Author & Musician, Named Curator of the 2020 African Book Festival in Berlin
The Angolan musician and author Kalaf Epalanga, who looks like the actor Mahershala Ali, has been announced as the curator of the 2020 African Book Festival in Berlin. The inaugural event in 2018, themed “Writing in Migration,” was curated by the Nigerian novelist Olumide Popoola. The 2019 event, themed “Transitioning from Migration” and headlined by […]
Event | (Re)membering Africa: Women’s Narratives Conference at the University of Houston | 28-30 March
On 28-30 March, the University of Houston will be hosting a conference themed “(Re)membering Africa: Women’s Narratives on the Continent and Beyond.” In an email to Brittle Paper, the novelist Novuyo Rosa Tshuma explained that the event, which is organised by the university’s graduate students, will feature the Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga and the American […]
Ben Okri to Headline the 2019 African Book Festival in Berlin, with Ainehi Edoro, Musa Okwonga as Moderators | All the Guests + Key Events
Ben Okri will headline the 2019 African Book Festival in Berlin, curated by Tsitsi Dangarembga, where panels will be moderated by Brittle Paper founder Ainehi Edoro, the Berlin-based writers Musa Okwonga and Clementine Burnley, and TV literary programme host Denis Scheck. The event—funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, presented by the literary agency InterKontinental, and themed “Transitioning from Migration”—will be held […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga to Curate 2019 Berlin Festival of African Writers
Tsitsi Dangarembga has been tapped to curate the 2019 Berlin Festival of African Writers. The event, themed “Transitioning from Migration,” will be held from 4-7 April 2019. It is presented by the literary agency InterKontinental, and will be attended by writers from across the continent. The inaugural event, themed “Writing in Migration” and curated by Olumide Popoola, […]
Read an Excerpt from Tsitsi Dangarembga’s New Novel, This Mournable Body
Earlier this month, we brought news of the publication of This Mournable Body, the final novel in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai Trilogy which includes the modern classic Nervous Conditions (1988) and The Book of Not (2006). The 296-page novel is published by Graywolf Press, and comes with a blurb by Canadian novelist Madeleine Thien, author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Do Not Say […]
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