Paivapo Publishers welcomes you to the pre-launch of Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang’s debut novel The Daughters of Nandi, at the Book Circle Capital on Saturday, December 4. at 2pm. Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang is a South African writer, academic, producer and broadcaster who has published six books for young readers. The writer this year made her step …
Read more →“December 4: Nokuthula Mazibuko Msimang’s “The Daughters of Nandi” Joburg pre-launch.”
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and I shall be in conversation about his work hosted by @nyu_accra at 4.30pm Accra Time/5.30pm Abuja Time/6.30pm Joburg Time/7.30pm Nairobi Time. Catch us on their Facebook page and post your questions to him on the page if you are not in this city.
I continue “Virtually Yours” my partnership with Goethe-Institut 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 …
From brick-and-mortar libraries to virtual magazines, cultural institutions provide vital infrastructure for the promotion of African literature. As audiences for African literature continue to grow, African creatives are pursuing increasingly innovative ways to celebrate local talent and foster global reading communities. Join us for a panel featuring three powerhouse figures in the literary world—Edwige-Renée Dro, …
Read more →“October 6: African Literature and Publishing Platforms with Stanford University”
For years now, one of my favourite things to do as a writer is to see how the written word can interact with other art forms (I think the late photographer Alf Kumalo and I collaborating on the Mandela house biography 8115: A Prisoner’s Home back in 2010 or curating Artistic Encounters from 2016-2019 and …
I spent time with members of the Soma Nami Book on Saturday, September 25, 2021. Soma Nami is a bookshop that exclusively sells books written by African writers founded by Muthoni Muiruri and Wendy Njoroge that opened in the Nairobi in August. It also has an monthly book club where members come and discuss the …
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 …
Read more →“September 11: Virtually Yours with Rémy Ngamije”
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 …
Read more →“August 14: Virtually Yours with Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu”
Artistic Encounters, the series I founded in 2017, returned with Mphuthumi Ntabeni and Malcolm Jiyane from Johannesburg, South Africa on June 15, 2021. Watch video of the session below;
On Saturday, July 17, I will be a guest on Ethnikids at their “Meet The Author & Virtual Book Signing” where I will be reading from my new book The Black Pimpernel: Nelson Mandela on The Run. The session runs from 3pmGMT/4pmWAT/5pm CAT/6pmEAT. As it comes a day before Nelson Mandela Day, I kindly ask …
