Category: Uganda
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Book Digest: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva, Kennedy Ryan, Tracy Deonn
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books from Abdulrazak Gurnah, Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva, Kennedy Ryan, and Tracy Deonn. Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah Publisher: Random HouseDate: March 18, 2025Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Penguin Random House, Bloomsbury Abdulrazak Gurnah Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the…
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Book Digest: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Laila Lalami, Nick Makoha, Laurène Southe
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Laila Lalami, Nick Makoha, and Laurène Southe. Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Publisher: KnopfDate: March 4, 2025Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Penguin Random House Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who grew up in Nigeria has been translated into more than…
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Kampala Writes Literature Festival for Uganda
The inaugural Kampala Writes Literature Festival will be hosted in Uganda’s capital from December 7 – 8, 2024. The festival theme is “Writing Our Truths: Commemorating Ugandan Literature.” The Kampala Writes Literature Festival, the newest literary festival in East Africa, hopes to create a platform for authors, writers, and literature lovers to engage, support each…
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Morland Writing Scholarships 2024 shortlist announced.
The Morland Writing Scholarships 2024 shortlists have been announced today, Monday, October 14, 2024. 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. In the past, the scholarship has been accorded to writers from across the continent like Yewande…
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Ibua Manuscript Project 2024 longlist announced
The longlist for the Ibua Manuscript Project 2024 was announced in Kampala, Uganda on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Ibua Publishing, founded in 2018, is a Uganda-based publishing house committed to providing writers with the tools to grow their craft, improve editorial quality, and bring it to a wider audience. In September 2023, they initiated the…
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eKitabu audiobooks launch in Nairobi
Goretti Kyomuhendo, Lesalon Kasaine, Ciku Kimani, and Scola Moraa launched audiobook versions of their novels at the Alliance Française, Nairobi on Saturday, June 29, 2024. Since 2012, eKitabu has done valuable work to increase accessibility and lower the cost of content for quality education in Kenya. For their efforts, they were feted at the Accessible…
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Jinja International Poetry Festival 2024 starts October 24.
The inaugural Jinja International Poetry Festival 2024 runs in Jinja, Uganda from October 24 – 27, 2024. The festival theme is “roots.” Uganda is one of the most important literary hubs on the African continent. Some of the writers and poets who have made the East African country proud are Okot p’Bitek, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi,…
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Writivism Prize 2023 winners announced
Damilola Omotoyinbo, Mlamli Tyulu, and Hussani Abdulrahim are the winners of the Writivism Prize 2023 announced on Sunday, April 28, 2024. Writivism, the project of writing as activism, was started by Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire, Naseemah Mohamed, and Kyomuhendo A Ateenyi at the Centre for African Cultural Excellence in Kampala, Uganda in 2012. They conducted several…
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Translations: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Blaise Ndala, Djaïli Amadou Amal, Lisette Lombe
Translations for books by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Blaise Ndala, Djaïli Amadou Amal, and Lisette Lombe are available for your reading pleasure. La Femme Premiere by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Book: La Femme PremiereOriginal Title: The First WomanAuthor: Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiTranslator: Céline SchwallerPublisher: Editions MétailiéPublishing Date: March 1, 2024Language: English to FrenchWhere to Find it: Editions Métailié…
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Writivism Prize 2023 shortlists announced
The shortlists for the Writivism Prize 2023 in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry were announced on Thursday, February 29, 2024. Writivism, the project of writing as activism, was started by Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire, Naseemah Mohamed, and Kyomuhendo A Ateenyi at the Centre for African Cultural Excellence in Kampala, Uganda in 2012. They conducted several activities such…
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Afritondo Short Story Prize 2024 longlist announced.
The longlist for the Afritondo Short Story Prize 2024 was announced on Friday, February 23, 2024. Afritondo, a platform that aims to connect with and tell the stories of African and black minority populations across the globe, is the organisation behind the Afritondo Short Story Prize. Previous winners have been Alex Kadiri, Howard Meh-Buh Maximus,…
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Literary Magazines: Agbowo, Fiyah, Weganda, Writers Project of Ghana
New editions of Agbowo, Fiyah, Weganda, and the Journal of the Writers Project of Ghana are available for your reading pleasure. Agbowo Agbowó is a platform dedicated to the curation of literary and visual art from across Africa since its establishment in 2017. Currently on offer is the “Woman Edition” guest edited by Kechi Nomu…
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Dilman Dila, Eugen Bacon are Philip K. Dick Award 2024 nominees.
Dilman Dila and Eugen Bacon were named nominees of the Philip K. Dick Award 2024 in Philadelphia, USA on Tuesday, January 9, 2024. Philip K Dick was a US science fiction writer who wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. In 1983, the…
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Debunk Barbara Achermann Fellowship recipients announced.
The recipients of the Debunk Barbara Achermann Fellowship were announced in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday, January 8, 2024. Barbara Achermann is a Swiss journalist and author. She is deputy editor-in-chief of Das MAGAZIN, a magazine that cultivates in-depth reporting and investigative journalism. The Swiss partnered with Kenyan-based Debunk Media for a new fellowship for writers…
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Femrite’s International Literature Festival celebrates Abdulrazak Gurnah.
The International Literature Festival celebrating Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah will be hosted by Femrite in Kyambogo University, Kampala from November 22 – 24, 2023. Author and academic Abdulrazak Gurnah was declared literature laureate at the Nobel Prize in 2021; he is the first from East Africa to win the coveted award. The Zanzibar-born UK-based writer…