Tag: Cassava Republic Press
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Bernardine Evaristo to chair Global Black Women’s Nonfiction Manuscript Prize jury.
Bernardine Evaristo is the chair of the jury of the new Global Black Women’s Nonfiction Manuscript Prize announced on November 28. Others are Sylvia Tamale, Natalie Baszile, Carole Boyce Davies, and Panashe Chigumadzi. In October, Cassava Republic Press announced the new Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize open to emerging and established Black women writers globally.…
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Thando Mgqolozana novel “A Man Who Is Not A Man” out as e-book today.
Thando Mgqolozana’s novel A Man Who Is Not A Man, published by Cassava Republic Press, is out as an e-book today, June 17, 2020. In 2009, University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press published a novel from South African Thando Mgqolozana called A Man Who Is Not A Man. The novel had the following blurb; A Man Who…
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Jumoke Verissimo’s debut novel “A Small Silence” for July 2.
Jumoke Verissimo’s debut novel “A Small Silence,” published by Cassava Republic Press, will be available from July 2, 2019. Jumoke Verissimo writes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. The Nigerian has published two collections of poetry in I am memory which won the Carlos Idzia Ahmad Prize’s First Prize for a first book of Poetry, and…
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Leye Adenle makes UK CrimeFest’s eDunnit Award 2019 shortlist.
Leye Adenle is on the shortlist for CrimeFest’s eDunnit Award 2019 for his book When Trouble Sleeps. CRIMEFEST is a convention for people who like to read an occasional crime novel as well as for die-hard fanatics. Drawing top crime novelists, readers, editors, publishers and reviewers from around the world, it gives all delegates the…
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Elnathan John‘s “Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide” out on February 6.
Elnathan John newest nonfiction book Be(com)ing Nigerian: A Guide makes its official debut on February 6, 2019. Elnathan John is a Nigerian novelist, satirist, and lawyer whose fiction was shortlisted twice for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and 2015. His debut novel, Born on a Tuesday, a coming of age novel about…
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Interview: Five questions with Ayesha Harruna Attah.
Ayesha Harruna Attah is the author of the new novel The Hundred Wells of Salaga published by Cassava Republic Press. This is the writer’s second novel. She agreed to answer five of our questions. Ghanaian writer Ayesha Harruna Attah is a writer of no mean repute with her first novel, Harmattan Rain, being shortlisted for…
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“Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak” out April 24
She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak, a ground-breaking collection of 25 first-hand narratives from a cross section of queer Nigerian Women will be out on April 24, 2018. The book edited by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, and Rafeeat Aliyu is published by Cassava Republic Press. The new book covers the experience of queer…
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Sarah Ladipo Manyika makes California Book Award 2018 shortlist
Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s novel Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun is on the California Book Award 2018 shortlist. The book was published by Cassava Republic Press. The California Book Awards are a prize showing the wealth and diversity of literature written in the US state. Monetary prizes for the prize, which began…
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Nnedi Okorafor’s “Sunny and the Mysteries of Osisi” cover revealed
Cassava Republic Press has revealed the cover for the African and European edition of Sunny and the Mysteries of Osisi by award-winning fantasy writer Nnedi Okorafor, the sequel to What Sunny Saw in the Flames, published as the Akata Witch series in the USA. The second instalment of the Young Adult fantasy series takes us one year into the future, as 13-year-old…
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Dr Bibi Bakare-Yusuf gives keynote address at Uganda International Writers Conference 2017
Dr Bibi Bakare-Yusuf gave the keynote address at the Uganda International Writers Conference 2017 on March 6th in Kampala. Bibi the co-founder and publishing director at Cassava Republic Press was the keynote speaker at the Fairway Hotel in Kampala as she addressed publishing industry professionals. The topic of her address would be The Current State…
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Sarah Ladipo Manyika makes Goldsmiths Prize 2016 shortlist
Sarah Ladipo Manyika is on the Goldsmiths Prize 2016 shortlist for her novel Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun. The book is published by Cassava Republic Press which has offices in both Nigeria and the UK. The Goldsmiths Prize, a British literary award worth £10,000, was founded in 2013 for fiction that…