On Saturday, Penguin Books announced the two inaugural winners of the Penguin Prize for African Writing, though neither of the African writers honored currently live in Africa. The non-fiction winner ...

Sheila Atim is a Ugandan-British actress, singer, composer, and playwright on the panel. She brings a rich CV of her own to ...

Amuka says that writing must be different to avoid being irrelevant. “Mochama must be different because they are focusing on tradition they know best, the post-colonial experiences.” The Africa Writes ...

Tinashe Mushakavanhu does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

This year’s AKO Caine prize for African writing has gone to Kenyan writer Idza Luhumyo for her short story Five Years Next Sunday, which was described as “incandescent” by the judges. Okey Ndibe, the ...

Samuel Ajayi Crowther: "Vocabulary of the Yorùbá Language" Ajayi Crowther was a formerly enslaved person who became a leading intellectual of his time and the father of Yoruba print college and ...

Andrew van der Vlies has received funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Australian Research Council. Funding from the Leverhulme Trust in 2013 supported some of his work on ...

"Makerere University College, Kampala, Uganda, 11-17 June, 1962." "Makerere College - Kampala, Uganda"--Added title page. Cover title. AFA copy 39088009748310 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution ...

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