Afrolit Now is returning to Audible with Hemley Boum ‘s Little Pa translated by Edwige Dro coming out on August 11. Afrolit Now is a series I am curating of short stories from six African writers in conjunction with Audible. Inspired by Afrolit Sans Frontières, the virtual literary festival I founded the Afrolit Now series …
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I have been nominated for South Africa’s The Book Behind Awards for Best Female author. Please vote for “BEFA3” to 34877 for me to win.
Nana Nkweti’s Walking on Cowrie Shells is the featured book for the series “Virtually Yours,” which runs on Saturday, July 9, 2022. She will be hosted by Goethe-Institut and moderated by Zukiswa Wanner. Virtually Yours is a regional project of Goethe-Institut Sub Saharan Africa, a series of online discussions with contemporary authors from Africa. “Virtually …
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Artistic Encounters is a project where artists from two different disciplines offered a performance combining their two specialities at the Goethe-Institut Nairobi. Typically, the anchor disciplines were either poetry or prose combined with the visual arts, music instruments, acting, and loads more. The artists came from Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Botswana, Germany, South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe, …
Read more →“<strong>July 9: Artistic Encounters with Tsitsi Dangarembga</strong>”
