Tag: Brian Chikwava
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Book Digest: Brian Chikwava, Priya Hein, Raymond Antrobus, Ryad Assani-Razaki
Our regular Book Digest segment spotlights new books by Brian Chikwava, Priya Hein, Raymond Antrobus, and Ryad Assani-Razaki. Shamiso by Brian Chikwava Publisher: CanongateDate: August 28, 2025Genre: FictionLanguage: EnglishWhere to find it: Canongate Brian Chikwava Brian Chikwava is a London-based writer and author of Harare North, longlisted for the 2010 Orwell Prize for political writing.…
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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…
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Caine Prize 2015 judging panel announced in Nigeria
The people who will be judging the Caine Prize for 2015 have been revealed. The announcement was made earlier today at the ongoing at the Ake Arts and Book Festival in Abeokuta, Nigeria. The Caine Prize, for the four visitors from Kyrgyzstan who visited this blog in May, is named after the late Sir Michael…