Category: Film
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Happiness is a Four Letter Word novel for film debut
Happiness is a Four Letter Word is the debut novel of South African novelist Cynthia Jele. The book came out in 2010 and won a raft of awards in South Africa and abroad. One of the awards the book won was the MNET literary award in 2011 which meant that the book would be commissioned…
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When Tsitsi Dangarembga came to Nairobi
Zimbabwean author and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga was in Nairobi for a period last week for the International Images Film Festival for Women which she founded.Dangarembga’s biggest contribution to African literature so far has been the novel Nervous Conditions, which won the African section of the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1989 and is considered one of…
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Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a yellow sun movie trailer out
We all read books then watch their movie version and complain bitterly that the director never did justice to the jewel we all read. It’s not often that we get to see books by our fellow Africans in the cinematic form so this post will please some of us. The movie trailer for Half of…
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Lauren Beukes book for Leonardo Dicaprio TV production company
It looks like author Lauren Beukes is going all the way as her book The Shining Girls gets signed up by MRC and Leonardo Dicaprio production company Appian Way. I came upon this information from the Hollywood Reporter as I tried to distract myself from watching the Groove Awards happening in Nairobi right now. I…