Category: Liberia

  • Emmanuel G.G. Yamba wins Abu Sherif Poetry Prize 2024

    Emmanuel G.G. Yamba wins Abu Sherif Poetry Prize 2024

    Emmanuel G.G. Yamba was declared the winner of Liberia’s Abu Sherif Poetry Prize 2024 on Monday, July 1, 2024. The Abu Sherif Poetry Prize is named in honour of Abu Sherif, a prolific Liberian poet who lost his life to sickle cell. It is open only to Liberians between the ages of 17 and 35.…

  • Abu Sherif Poetry Prize 2024 shortlist announced.

    Abu Sherif Poetry Prize 2024 shortlist announced.

    The six shortlisted writers in the running for the Abu Sherif Poetry Prize 2024 were announced on Thursday, April 25, 2024. The Abu Sherif Poetry Prize is named in honour of Abu Sherif, a prolific Liberian poet who lost his life to sickle cell. It is open only to Liberians between the ages of 17…

  • Literary Magazines: Baladi, Debunk, Pepper Coast Lit, Will This Be a Problem

    Literary Magazines: Baladi, Debunk, Pepper Coast Lit, Will This Be a Problem

    New editions of Baladi, Will This Be a Problem, Debunk Quarterly, and Pepper Coast Lit are available for your reading pleasure. Baladi Magazine Baladi بلدي is an Arabic word that means my home or my country. It connotes folk and indigenous culture for Earthdwellers at home and in the diaspora. Baladi Magazine is a home…

  • Book Digest: Njambi McGrath, Jason Allen-Paisant, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Farouk Sesay and Elizabeth L. A. Kamar

    Book Digest: Njambi McGrath, Jason Allen-Paisant, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Farouk Sesay and Elizabeth L. A. Kamar

    We wrap up book news for our readers in our regular Book Digest segment with books from Njambi McGrath, Jason Allen-Paisant, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Farouk Sesay, and Elizabeth L. A. Kamar. Rinsing Mukami’s Soul by Njambi McGrath Publisher:  JacarandaDate:  February 2, 2024Genre:  FictionLanguage:  EnglishWhere to find it:  Jacaranda Njambi McGrath Njambi McGrath is a…

  • Wayetu Moore wins Premio Inge Feltrinelli 2023

    Wayetu Moore wins Premio Inge Feltrinelli 2023

    Wayetu Moore’s I draghi, il gigante le donne, the Italian translation of her 2020 memoir, won the inaugural Premio Inge Feltrinelli 2023 in Milan, Italy on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Premio Inge Feltrinelli was set up by the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation and the Feltrinelli Group to celebrate a German-born Italian photographer and director Inge Schönthal…

  • Literary Magazines: Kikwetu, Pepper Coast, Isele, and Tampered Press

    Literary Magazines: Kikwetu, Pepper Coast, Isele, and Tampered Press

    Kikwetu Journal, Pepper Coast Lit, Isele Magazine, and Tampered Press are currently available for your reading pleasure. Kikwetu Journal Kikwetu is an annual online literary journal that publishes both new and established writers from East Africa and beyond in English and Swahili. The current edition has contributions from among others Moses Abukutsa, Florence Onyango, Raheem…

  • Literary Magazines: Writers Space Africa, Open Country Mag, Pepper Coast Lit, Masobe Quarterly

    Literary Magazines: Writers Space Africa, Open Country Mag, Pepper Coast Lit, Masobe Quarterly

    Writers Space Africa, Open Country Mag, Pepper Coast Lit, and Masobe Quarterly are currently available for your reading pleasure. Pepper Coast Lit Pepper Coast Lit is a literary magazine that seeks to give attention to brave voices from the coast of Liberia. They accept poetry from around the world, cutting across any/and every theme and/or…

  • Lamelle Shaw at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 4.

    Lamelle Shaw at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 4.

    Lamelle Shaw kicked off the second day of Season 4 of Afrolit Sans Frontières streaming from Johannesburg, South Africa on June 30, 2020. She was hosted by Troy Onyango. Afrolit Sans Frontières, a virtual literary festival for writers of African origin, started as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic international lockdown. The festival format is…

  • Vamba Sherif kicks off day two of Season 3 of Afrolit Sans Frontières.

    Vamba Sherif kicks off day two of Season 3 of Afrolit Sans Frontières.

    Vamba Sherif kicked off the second day of Season 3 of Afrolit Sans Frontières from Amsterdam, Holland on May 26, 2020. He was hosted by Troy Onyango. Afrolit Sans Frontières, a virtual literary festival for writers of African origin, started as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic international lockdown in March. It has had two…

  • Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 3: Meet the writers.

    Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 3: Meet the writers.

    Here are the writers who will feature at Season 3 of Afrolit Sans Frontières running from May 25 – June 1, 2020.  The festival theme is Future. Present. Past. Afrolit Sans Frontières, a new initiative for writers of African origin, was started as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic international lockdown in March. There have…

  • A snapshot of Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 2.

    A snapshot of Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 2.

    Season 2 of Afrolit Sans Frontières was hosted by African writers from cities all over the world over the Internet from April 20-27, 2020. The Afrolit Sans Frontiers Virtual Literary Festival, an initiative by and for writers of African origin, started in March as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic international lockdown. The second edition…

  • Elma Shaw at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 2.

    Elma Shaw at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 2.

    Elma Shaw kicked off the second day of Season 2 of the Afrolit Sans Frontières on Instagram from Kigali, Rwanda on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. She was hosted by Remy Ngamije. Afrolit Sans Frontières, a new initiative for writers of African origin, was started in March as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic international lockdown.…

  • A snapshot of Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 1.

    A snapshot of Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 1.

    Afrolit Sans Frontières was hosted by African writers from cities around the world from Monday, March 23 to Monday, March 30, 2020. The Afrolit Sans Frontiers Virtual Literary Festival is an initiative from writers of African origin curated by Zukiswa Wanner. Sixteen writers from 10 African countries shared their own original work from 15 different…

  • Hawa Jande Golakai at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 1

    Hawa Jande Golakai at Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 1

    Hawa Jande Golakai was the final participant on the second day of Afrolit Sans Frontières on Facebook from Monrovia, Liberia on March 24, 2020. Afrolit Sans Frontières is an initiative from writers of African origin curated by Zukiswa Wanner. Sixteen writers from 10 African countries are sharing their work from 15 different cities in English,…

  • Morland Writing Scholarships 2019 scholars announced.

    Morland Writing Scholarships 2019 scholars announced.

    The scholars selected for the Morland Writing Scholarships 2019 was announced on November 22, 2019. The Morland Writing Scholarships for African Writers, popularly referred to as the Morland Writing Scholarship, is an opportunity to allow writers to finish a manuscript. Scholars writing fiction receive a grant of £18,000, paid monthly over twelve months while those…