SA LOCAL WRITERS TO THE FORE
Poets, scribes and would-be-authors from our country (SA) districts take centre stage during the Open Microphone session at the Schreiner: Karoo Writers Festival (Cradock, 9 – 11 August 2013).“This is...
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DRAMA: IHOBE THE FREEDOM SONG
DRAMA: IHOBE THE FREEDOM SONGIhobe The Freedom Song has been performed in the Workshop Theatre inBloemfontein from 11-13 June (2013) as part of the Youth Festival of thePerforming Arts Centre of Free...
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VISITING THE NATIONAL LIBRARY, PRETORIA
VISITING THE NATIONAL LIBRARY, PRETORIABy Kgang Abel MotheaneI had a wonderful, illuminating visit to the National Library of Pretoria. I was welcomed by stalwarts Margaret Kibido and Narios, and Prof...
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“DR COOL” BOUND FOR GRAHAMSTOWN
“DR COOL” REVELS IN GRAHAMSTOWN TRIPSeiso “Dr Cool” Mpete (above) is one of the 18 writers in the Free State who were bound for the Grahamstown National Arts Festival this year (June 29 to July 7).The...
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ADIEU, KUNLE APANTAKU
Adieu Kunle ApantakuBy O Bolaji“Upon our son Larry James Olukunle Apantaku falls the hierarchy!” . This phrase will always haunt me to my grave; penned by Kunle Apantaku in his debut novel when he was...
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GLEE FOR ZOE WICOMB
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale announced the inaugural winners of the Windham Campbell Prizes, a new global writer’s award created with a gift from the late Donald Windham and...
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Soqaga reviews the book, KUNLE APANTAKU
Recently the world of literature was completely appalled by the demise of the celebrated African writer of all times and seasons, Mr Chinua Achebe. Astonishingly while his death is still very much...
View ArticleFILLIP FOR AFRICAN WRITERS
African Crime Fiction With U.S. $1,000 PrizeCordite Books, an imprint of Lagos-based Parresia Publishers is attempting to bring back African crime and spy fiction by launching a manuscript competition...
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D.O (Daniel Olorunfemi) FAGUNWA (1903 – 1963)
By Dr BAYO ADEBOWALED.O. Fagunwa’s creative art, from inception, has been received with warmth and enthusiasm. His early-time audience consumed the themes and contents of his works eagerly and with...
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TEBOHO IN THE THICK OF THINGS
Publisher: MBALI PRESS, LadybrandSponsored by the National Arts Council of South Africa
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KOFI AWOONOR (1935 - 2013
Writers and poets from around the world have joined in mourning following the news that Professor Kofi Awoonor, a Ghanaian poet and diplomat, died after sustaining injuries during the terrorist attack...
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THE VUVUZELA MURDERS By Aryan Kaganof
Publisher: MBALI PRESS, LadybrandSponsored by the National Arts Council of South Africa"Aryan Kaganof is arguably South Africa’s most versatile and resilient cultural activist. He is an eclectic...
View ArticleFREE STATE BREWED SHORT STORIES
Amazingly, this new anthology of short stories was published just a few days before Alice Munro was internationally announced as the 2013 winner of the Nobel award in literature. The blurb of this book...
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CELEBRATING A GREAT AFRICAN FEMALE WRITER....
For decades, she took up the pen and told the most gripping stories that hooked many a reader. She is no doubt a woman who has powerfully influenced East Africa’s literary narrative.Grace Ogot is a...
View ArticleFESTUS IYAYI DIES
By Abubakar Adam IbrahimThe death of (Nigerian) novelist and academic, Professor Festus Iyayi in a ghastly accident along Abuja-Lokoja road has been greeted with grief and outrage...Staggering from the...
View ArticleJUDE DIBIA
Interview by By Taiwo Ajayi The fact that Jude Dibia is not a desperate voice on social media, trying to prove a point, jostling for “over-lordship” in a set-up that is swallowed by too much noise...
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THE PROLIFIC MEJA MWANGI
Meja Mwangi, from Kenya is one of Africa's most prolific authors especially of fiction. Like Nigeria"s Buchi Emecheta (to name only two) he has published many more novels than the illustrious Chinua...
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NGUGI: CREATIVE WRITING RUNS IN THE FAMILY!
Ngugi wa Thiong'o: "And then there are my kids too, Mukoma Wa Ngugi has written NairobiHeat and Black Star Nairobi."And then my daughter Wanjiku whose first novel The fall of Saints is being published...
View ArticleKUDOS FOR SOMALI FEMALE POET
Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The African Poetry Book Fund and Prairie Schooner are pleased to announce that Ladan Osman’s collection, The Kitchen Dweller’s Testimony, is the winner of...
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