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Penguin awards first Prizes for African Writing

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 ...

From Steve Biko to Nelson Mandela: 5 powerful books that shaped South Africa’s human rights struggle

Explore five pivotal books that have significantly influenced human rights movements, particularly in South Africa, and ...
The Africa Report

2023 notable books from the African continent and beyond

A mixture of poetry, plays, memoirs, and novels awaits the reader, showcasing the best of Africa and the diaspora this year. A much-anticipated translation from Portuguese and a second effort by multi ...
insider.si.edu

African writing today edited by Ezekiel Mphahlele

[Nigeria] -- Extract from Arrow of God / Chinua Achebe -- Night of Freedom / Cyprian Ekwensi -- Extract from The Swamp Dwellers, Requiem / Wole Soyinka -- Extract from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts / ...
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Who are we, really? A provocation on definitions and influences of African writing

The creators of Artificial Intelligence bots designed them and continue to upgrade them after the fashion of their lived experiences. This is not surprising as it follows the pattern in which the ...
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5 female African authors you should know

Anyone familiar with African literature is likely to have read one of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novels or NoViolet Bulawayo’s highly praised debut We Need New Names. If you’re looking to delve deeper ...
The Conversation

African novels are being translated to English in a bold new trend. We review Ignatius Mabasa’s The Mad

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 ...
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Neo-African literature; a history of black writing. Translated from the German by Oliver Coburn and Ursula Lehrburger

Definitions: 'From the rubbish-heap'. World literature and national literatures. The cultures of Africa. The literatures of Africa -- Early writers of African descent: Pre-Islamic and early Islamic ...
The Conversation

African Literature in the Digital Age: new book traces the role of the internet, queers and class

Shola Adenekan 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 beyond ...
The New Yorker

Absence Africaine

In 1968, the Malian novelist Yambo Ouologuem won France’s prestigious Prix Renaudot for a bloody satire about a fictional African country called “Bound to Violence.” Opening in mock epic style with ...
The Nation Newspaper

African language and writings on verge of extinction

I am surprised at the level at which our languages are ‘disappearing’. Everybody wants to learn the lingua franca, we all want to learn other people’s languages while branding ours vernacular. While ...