Writing Africa: Archiving African and Black Literature

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  • FT / OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Award 2015 long list out

    FT / OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Award 2015 long list out

    In February I blogged about these FT / OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards where writers, filmmakers, and visual artists would be eligible for cash prizes up to US$40,000 and more goodies. The organisers of the awards covering more than 100 emerging market nations announced their long lists. The fiction lists have some of our favourite writers…

  • Yewande Omotoso new book picked up by Random House imprint

    Yewande Omotoso new book picked up by Random House imprint

    Yewande Omotoso‘s new book The Woman Next Door, an endearing story of two women living in Cape Town, South Africa, is ready for the world. In the new book, Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours and sworn enemies. They share hedge and hatred and prune both with a zeal and vim that belies the…