Tag: African Literary Podcast
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African Literary Podcast Episode 15: Joe Khamisi (with Prestige Books).
The African Literary Podcast, sponsored by Nairobi-based Prestige Books, interviews Kenyan writer Joe Khamisi. Joe Khamisi has had a long history of public service in Kenya. For many years he worked as a journalist before transitioning into civil service and then parliament. When his legislative career ended, he wrote the nonfiction titles The Politics of…
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African Literary Podcast 13: Lauren Beukes from Sharjah International Book Fair (with Prestige Books).
The African Literary Podcast episode 13, sponsored by Prestige Books, interviews South African novelist, short story writer, journalist and television scriptwriter Lauren Beukes from the Sharjah International Book Fair 2018. Lauren Beukes is the author of the books Maverick: Extraordinary Women From South Africa’s Past (2004), Moxyland (2008), Zoo City (2010), The Shining Girls (2013),…
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The African Literary Podcast 12: Kinyanjui Kombani interview (sponsored by Prestige Books)
The African Literary Podcast’s episode twelfth sponsored by Nairobi-based Prestige Books features an interview with Kinyanjui Kombani. In Episode 12, we have an interview with Kinyanjui Kombani a writer of fiction for all ages. Kombani has two novels in The Last Villains of Molo and Den of Inequities has written several books for children and…
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African Literary Podcast returns with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor interview, Prestige Books as sponsor
The African Literary Podcast has returned with an Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor interview. The return of the series is sponsored by Nairobi-based Prestige Books. The new season of the African Literary Podcast has returned with an exclusive interview with Kenyan novelist Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor conducted in a little café by Lavington Mall, Nairobi. She talks about…
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African Literary Podcast Season 2 Episodes 2 and 3
In the African Literary Podcast Season 2 Episode 2 and 3 we give you the audio of Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s keynote address and eulogise Zimbabwe author and poet Charles Mungoshi. We give you more African Literary Podcast with two episodes back to back. In the first of these, we share the audio of the Mukoma…
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African Literary Podcast Episode 4
In the African Literary Podcast Episode 4, I speak about the Graywolf Press Africa Prize 2018, Hugo Awards, Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2018, The Sunday Times Literary Awards 2018, and the California Book Award 2018. We also preview very cool books to put on your reading list this month. I also feature an interview with…
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African Literary Podcast Episode 3
Welcome to Episode 3. Thank you everyone for liking and sharing the podcast on all social media platforms so far. Just like in previous episodes, I’ll start with the news section followed by an interview with Barbados/Nigeria/South Africa writer Yewande Omotoso from the side lines of Time of the Writer 2018. This week we are…