Tag: Cassava Republic
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Pumla Dineo Gqola wins Canex Prize for Publishing in Africa 2024
Female Fear Factory written by Pumla Dineo Gqola and published by Cassava Republic won the inaugural Canex Prize for Publishing in Africa in Algiers, Algeria on Friday, October 18, 2024. The CANEX Weekend with the whole artistic compendium on the continent starring was hosted at the capital city of Algeria over the weekend. The writing…
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Jumoke Verissimo on Royal Society of London’s Ondaatje Prize 2020 shortlist.
Jumoke Verissimo’s debut novel A Small Silence is on the shortlist of the Royal Society of London’s Ondaatje Prize 2020 announced on April 20, 2020. The Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize is an annual award of £10,000 for a distinguished work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry, best evoking the spirit of a place. The…
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Africa Publishing Innovation Fund grants $170,000 to seven African publishing-related projects.
The Africa Publishing Innovation Fund granted $170,000 to seven publishing-related projects across Africa on October 29, 2019. The Africa Publishing Innovation Fund was created following the agreement of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Dubai Cares, part of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, and the International Publishers Association (IPA), the world’s largest trade…
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Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2018 winners announced.
The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2018 winners were announced with a ceremony in Yantai, China on May 26. The biggest winners were South African Nompumelelo Mowebu and Motswana Ednah Rosen. The Gourmand Awardsm started in 1995 for cookbooks and wine books at Frankfurt Book Fair, are the major Food Culture event in the world. They…
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The Lagos Arts and Book Festival 2014 starts on Monday
The 16th Lagos Arts and Book Festival will be rocking Lagos from the 10th of November in the commercial capital of Nigeria.This year’s events will honour Prof. Wole Soyinka @ 80; for the uninformed Prof. Wole Soyinka @ 80 is a celebration of Africa’s first Literature Nobel laureate as he turns eighty this year. There…
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Excerpt for new old Teju Cole book Every Day is for the Thief
So Teju Cole came to Nairobi in a blaze of glory last year at the Storymoja Hay Festival. He came to these shores on the back of the Faber & Faber published Open City. The book is about a psychotic rapist Nigerian/German walking around New York and giving his strange view of the world. The…