Category: Appointments

  • Shadreck Chikoti is new Malawi Writers’ Union President

    Shadreck Chikoti is new Malawi Writers’ Union President

    Shadreck Chikoti was elected the new Malawi Writers’ Union President in Lilongwe on Saturday, December 21, 2024. The Malawi Writers Union is a national body of creative writers in Malawi, an affiliate of the Pan African Writers Association, founded in September 1995. Its role is to lobby for the members and provide them with opportunities…

  • Wendy Njoroge to head new Narrative Landscape Press East Africa

    Wendy Njoroge to head new Narrative Landscape Press East Africa

    Wendy Njoroge is set to head the newly constituted Narrative Landscape Press East Africa. In 2017, doctor-turned-writer and publisher Eghosa Imasuen and editor Anwuli Ojogwu set up Narrative Landscape Press in Lagos, Nigeria. The new outfit promised new fiction, poetry, and nonfiction from talented writers in their country and they went on to do just…

  • African Book Festival Berlin announces new board

    African Book Festival Berlin announces new board

    The African Book Festival Berlin is a project conceived and run by the InterKontinental literary agency in the German capital since 2018. It has featured readings, discussions, music, poetry performances, and interactive, and modern event formats with many leading African writers working today. It has run in themes like the Queer Edition (2024), Yesterday. Today.…

  • Ese Emmanuel, Dennis Mugaa are Rajat Neogy 2023 Fellows.

    Ese Emmanuel, Dennis Mugaa are Rajat Neogy 2023 Fellows.

    Ese Emmanuel and Dennis Mugaa were named A Long House Rajat Neogy Editorial Fellows on July 12, 2023. A Long House is a new frontier for black thought, stories, and critical discourse that was started in 2020. They announced themselves with a series of curated discussions featuring some of the most respected names in the…

  • Margaret Busby is new English PEN President

    Margaret Busby is new English PEN President

    Margaret Busby was appointed the president of English PEN on Wednesday, April 19, 2023. English PEN, founded in 1921, is one of the world’s first non-governmental organisations and among the first international bodies advocating for human rights. It was the founding centre of PEN International, a worldwide writers’ association with 145 centres in more than…

  • John Rusimbi to head Pan African Writers Association interim council.

    John Rusimbi to head Pan African Writers Association interim council.

    The new interim council of the Pan African Writers Association, headed by Rwandan John Rusimbi, was appointed on June 26, 2022. The Pan African Writers Association, popularly known as PAWA, is a Ghana-based cultural institution that is an umbrella body of writers’ associations on the African continent and the Diaspora. The Accra, Ghana-based organisation was…

  • Clarie Gor, Kelechi Njoku are Rajat Neogy Editorial Fellows

    Clarie Gor, Kelechi Njoku are Rajat Neogy Editorial Fellows

    Clarie Gor and Kelechi Njoku were revealed to be the inaugural A Long House Rajat Neogy Editorial Fellows on January 16, 2021. A Long House is a new frontier for black thought, stories, and critical discourse that was started in 2020. They announced themselves with a series of curated discussions featuring some of the most…

  • Appointments: Beatrice Lamwaka, Jared Jackson, Marianne Tatepo, Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman

    Appointments: Beatrice Lamwaka, Jared Jackson, Marianne Tatepo, Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman

    There have been new roles for Uganda’s Beatrice Lamwaka, USA’s Jared Jackson and Khadijah Z. Ali-Coleman, as well as UK’s Marianne Tatepo in the last week. Beatrice Lamwaka to head PEN Uganda Gulu Uganda born and bred Beatrice Lamwaka is Ugandan writer with a keen interest in human rights. She is the founder of Arts…