Tag: Clifton Gachagua
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Sillerman First Book Prize 2016 open for writers
The Sillerman First Book Prize has started to become one of the best prizes for African poets to show their chops in world poetry. Past winners of the prize include 2014 winner Ladan Osman and 2013 winner Clifton Gachagua, whose collection Madman at Kilifi was released as part of this year’s African Poetry Book series.For…
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Ake Festival assures guests on Ebola, has cool artist line up
So you heard about Ebola and how it is terrorising the Western part of this continent no? Well, it’s concerning many people who want to head to that part of our rock for whatever reason. Well, even the literature world is not spared as two of the biggest literary festivals were lined up for Nigeria;…
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Images from the Caine Prize Zimbabwe Workshop 2014
A few weeks ago the Caine Prize hosted one of its annual workshops in Zimbabwe with some of the leading African writers in attendance. They included South African 2008 winner Henrietta Rose-Innes and a host of short-listed ones like Lawrence Hoba, Abubakar Ibrahim (2013) Elnathan John (2013), and Chinelo Okparanta (2013). Rounding off the participants…