A new literary magazine of African writing, whose inaugural issues if slated for July 2021, has announced a contest for African writers on the continent and in the Diaspora. This new literary outfit is “a space for African writers to tell the stories of the continent and its peoples worldwide.” Akuko’s vision includes…
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Interview in Shona: Tinashe Muchuri Anokurukura naIgnatius Mabasa
Munyori Shona Contributing Editor, Tinashe Muchuri, chats with Ignatius Mabasa on story telling in the Ngano genre. The interview is allowed to unfold organically, with all its kinks, knots, pauses, digressions, interruptions and empty spaces. In talking about ngano, the two writers were telling each other ngano; they were both audience and story-teller at the…
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Graywolf Press Announces Submission Period for the Second Africa Book Prize
A. Igoni Barrett is the author of a story collection, Love Is Power, or Something
Like That and a novel, Blackass. Barrett is the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. He lives in Nigeria.
Graywolf Press is an award-winning independent publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of contemporary American and international literature. Founded in 1974, the press is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota (www.graywolfpress.org).
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Hopes and Dreams by Mbogo Ireri (Kenya)
Mbogo Ireri, shortlisted for the 2018 Writivism short story contest, is 38 years old and was born in Embu, Kenya. He lives in Nairobi with his wife and son (although currently he is away on a short job contract in Doha, Qatar). He wrote his first short story, “One False Move,” when he was 18…
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The Photograph by Mali Kambandu (Zambia)
Mali Kambandu, shortlisted for the 2018 Writivism Fiction Contest, lives in Lusaka, Zambia, with her husband and two children. Mali’s writing influences are Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, but her most cherished book is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. While storytelling came early for her, she didn’t write for pleasure until after university at…
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New poems by Chad Norman (Canada)
Chad Norman’s poems have appeared for the past 35 years in literary publications across Canada, as well as a number of other countries around the world. He hosts and organizes RiverWords: Poetry & Music Festival each year in Truro, NS., held at Riverfront Park , the 2nd Saturday of each July. In October 2016 he was invited…
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GRAYWOLF ANNOUNCES AFRICA FIRST-NOVEL PRIZE
September 18, 2017— Graywolf Press has announced the Graywolf Press Africa Prize, to be awarded for a first novel manuscript by an African author primarily residing in Africa. The prize will be judged by A. Igoni Barrett, author of the acclaimed novel Blackass, in conjunction with the Graywolf Editors. The submission period will run from October 1—October…
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Atemnkeng Reviews Imbolo Mbue’s “Behold the Dreamers”
Limbe is a coastal resort city by the black, sandy beaches of the Atlantic in the Anglophone South West Region of Cameroon. It is also where Africa’s first million dollar novelist, Imbolo Mbue was born and raised. Her debut novel, “Behold the dreamers” is partly set there. Most of the flashback in her novel also goes there. Imbolo’s very moving reminiscences of places like Half Mile, Down Beach and Isokolo, resonated with me a lot because they are all places that I lived in or visited in Limbe while growing up. Yet, no matter how neatly she paints the portrait of that clean city in her novel, it is ironically a place that she left. It is also a city which her novel’s two main characters, Jende and Neni Jonga also leave behind.
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A Conversation with Farayi Mungoshi
Although author and film maker Farayi Mungoshi comes from an artistically gifted family, he has found his own niche. He recently published Behind The Wall Everywhere and Other Stories (2016, Mungoshi Press) which is an amazing collection of English short stories, and he is finalizing work on the film Makunun’unu Maodzamoyo, based on his father…
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Interview with Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Munyori Literary Journal has just reviewed Manyika’s second novel, Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun, which was published this year by Cassava Republic Press Abuja-London and was officially launched in Harare. The following is an exciting conversation which writer/literary journalist Beaven Tapureta (BT), recently held with Sarah Ladipo Manyika (SLM) about herself,…
