February 21: OlongoAfrica Multilingual Anthology

I was delighted to translate Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s Moraya from English to Shona for OlongoAfrica Multilingual Anthology which will be published on February 21, 2023. On February 21, to mark International Mother Tongue Day — an annual event marked globally by UNESCO — OlongoAfrica will present ten African short stories in ten different African languages …

June 16: Artistic Encounters and Strauhof Zurich

Strauhof and the Litar Foundation are dedicating the exhibition trilogy “litafrika” (2022–2024) to literatures from the African continent. The first exhibition “Poetries of a Continent”, based on the anthology “Afrika im Gedicht” (Zurich 2015) by the Swiss literary mediator Al Imfeld, stages a selection of exemplary poems in English, French, Portuguese, and Arabic from postcolonial …