We knew this association was bound to happen soon. News came days ago that The Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle is guest-editing the September issue of British Vogue, the most important issue of fashion magazines, making her the issue’s first guest editor in the magazine’s 103-year-old history. Turning down a chance to appear on the […]
Warsan Shire and Yrsa Daley-Ward in Vogue’s “World Poetry Day” Special
As we talk about the Brunel Prize including six women on its eight-name 2018 shortlist, two female African poets have been included in Vogue magazine’s feature for the 2018 “World Poetry Day” on March 21. Somali Warsan Shire and Nigerian-British Yrsa Daley-Ward appear alongside seven other poets of international renown: Lang Leav, Kaveh Akbar, Donika […]
New-Generation African Poets 2017 Box Set Featured in Vogue Magazine
African Poetry Book Fund’s New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne) has been featured in Vogue magazine. The feature, written by Tariro Mzezewa, who is Zimbabwean, is titled “In Times of Division, Finding Refuge—and Fighting Back—Through Art.” It explains how poetry and the writings of black women constitute important resistance in the age of […]
Watch Actress Ruth Negga Read an Excerpt of Zadie Smith’s Swing Time
Ethiopian and Irish actress Ruth Negga reads from Zadie Smith’s Swing Time. Ruth Negga was nominated for the Golden Globes for her role in Loving, an American movie about interracial marriage. Smith’s novel explores status and class and the way these distinctions shift between Africa and the Western world; a shift to which Negga herself […]