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MEET THE SMALL NIGERIAN PRESS WITH ITS SIGHTS SET ON THE WORLD
Jolyon Hoff/Vimeo- CASSAVA REPUBLIC WANTS TO BROADEN YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF AFRICAN LITERATURE October 25, 2017 By Shayera Dark Most people would spike an idea if the business plan revealed negative numbers year after year. But Bibi Bakare-Yusuf is not most people. With precisely no entrepreneurial experience, she ignored the numbers, she says, “because I’m not a business woman” and, in 2006, launched Cassava Republic,…
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Final Call: 2nd Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation International Conference 2018
Originally posted on Finding Africa: 2nd Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) International Conference 22-24 March 2018 University of the Witwatersrand ? Keynote Speakers ? Molly Andrews is Professor of Political Psychology, and Co-director of the Centre for Narrative Research (www.uelac.uk/cnr/index.html) at the University of East London. Her research interests include political narratives, the psychological…
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Call for Submissions: Mawazo Novel Writing Workshop
Aiw thanks to Mawazo Africa Writing Institute for this info about their upcoming writing workshop… Call for Submissions: Mawazo Novel Writing Workshop Mawazo Africa Writing Institute announces a Call for Submissions for its first writing workshop: Writing the Novel, led by award-winning author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi. The aim of the workshop is to provide advanced training and support to…
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Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Source: Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
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A Study in Contrast: A Review of Stanley Gazemba’s Forbidden Fruit
AiW Guest: Amanda Anderson Stanley Gazemba’s 2002 novel Forbidden Fruit, previously published in Kenya as The Stone Hills of Maragoli, presents a tightly woven tapestry of human experience. The narrative follows Ombima, a poor man from the small village of Ivona, Kenya struggling to meet his basic needs. In fact, it is his desire and…
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Michael Ondaatje opens archive to reveal his writing methods
Author’s papers, acquired by the Harry Ransom Center in Texas, include a photograph that formed the basis of one of the scenes in The English Patient ‘I sometimes need a few visual breaks along the way’ … Michael Ondaatje. Photograph: Pete Smith/Harry Ransom Center An image of a drunken Oxford party that Michael Ondaatje clipped…
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Quotes: Dazzling Contradictions
Originally posted on Urban Poetry: Every now and then I love to write quotes, I call this “Dazzling Contradictions.” This quote is about a little girl who is untamed by society. Little girls are beautiful in all their thunderstorms and sweetness. I try to teach my Bianca to shout, to scream, to hold her head high,…
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A Review of Daniel Chukwuemeka’s Iliad of Dreams
Originally posted on The Muse: ? Poetry is “an emergence of a playfield of metaphor which tasks the mind to appreciate and reflect upon the subtlety of artistic language” — Daniel Chukwuemeka ? Katherine Isobel Baxter Monday 21 August 2017 08:38 GMT ? ? In Iliad of Dreams Daniel Chukwuemeka takes us on a journey…
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