Tag: Abdilatif Abdalla

  • Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature 2018 winners celebrated.

    Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature 2018 winners celebrated.

    Tanzania’s Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan was the guest of honour as the Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature 2018 winners Zainab Alwi Baharoon and Jacob Ngumbau Julius were feted at the University of Dar es Salaam on February 15, 2019. The Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature was founded in 2014 by Dr Mukoma…

  • African writers converge for Berlin’s first African Book Festival.

    African writers converge for Berlin’s first African Book Festival.

    Writers from across the African continent converged on Berlin for the first African Book Festival with Chris Abani as the headliner on April 26-28, 2018. Organised by the InterKontinental and curated by Olumide Popoola, the festival looked at transnationalism and migration in a more literary sense of “keeping in motion”. Berlin has a very unique…

  • The Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature 2017 reading

    The Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature 2017 reading

    Mabati-Cornell Prize for African Literature 2017 winners Dotto Rangimotto and Ali Hilal Ali were hosted to a reading of their work at the University of Nairobi on Wednesday, February 14, 2018. The Manu Chandaria Centre at the University of Nairobi was the stage for the reading for Mabati-Cornell Prize for African Literature 2017 reading. On…

  • Mabati-Cornell Prize for African Literature 2017 winners feted

    Mabati-Cornell Prize for African Literature 2017 winners feted

    Mabati-Cornell Prize for African Literature 2017 winners Dotto Rangimotto and Ali Hilal Ali were the centre of attention of a cheque handing out ceremony at the Kenya National Theatre on February 13, 2018. The Kenya National Theatre was the scene for the third prize giving ceremony of the Mabati-Cornell Prize for African Literature. The prize…

  • Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature Shortlist 2017 announced

    Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature Shortlist 2017 announced

    The Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature Shortlist 2017 was announced by the board chair, Abdilatif Abdalla on December 4, 2017. The Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature was founded in 2014 by Dr. Lizzy Attree (Caine Prize Director) and Dr Mukoma Wa Ngugi (Cornell University) to recognise writing in African languages and…