Please Surfacing: On being black and feminist in South Africa which contains my essay “Do I Make You Uncomfortable?” about writing in a white publishing industry. Surfacing traces a path within black South African feminist thought in 20 dazzling chapters. The collection shows how radical black South African women have been part of several traditions …
Read more →“Read my essay in “Surfacing: On being black and feminist in South Africa.””
I continue “Virtually Yours” my partnership with Goethe Namibia, a series of online discussions with contemporary authors from Africa. “Virtually Yours” aims to create an online platform for avid readers, writers, academics, publishers, agents, and anyone else interested in literature by writers from Africa. The series of online discussions held once a month from October …
I kick off this year’s UCT’s Great Texts/Big Questions today with the topic, Creativity in The Face of Crisis. Others to look forward to in the series are Yewande Omotoso , Athambile Masola , Lebo Mashile , Percy Mabandu and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Join me if you can at 11am Ghana Time/ 12pm Cameroon Time/13hrs …
I continue my partnership with Goethe Namibia called Virtually Yours which is a series of online discussions – Virtual Gatherings – with contemporary authors from Africa. Virtually Yours aims to create an online platform for avid readers, writers, academics, publishers, agents, and anyone else interested in literature by writers from Africa. The series of online …
Read more →“May 8: Virtually Yours with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor”
One Read is a mobile application, brought to you by Nigeria’s Sterling Bank and Ouida Books, aimed at promoting writers, publishers and other players in the African book industry to create a community of readers. My third novel Men of the South, published by Kwela in 2010, is this month’s reading choice for the One Read …
