Tag: Jalada Africa

  • New poetry anthology seeks submissions from Burundi nationals

    New poetry anthology seeks submissions from Burundi nationals

    A new anthology titles A Song for Burundi is seeking submissions from Burundians living in exile. Huza Press in collaboration with Africa Writes and Jalada Africa have announced a call for submissions for a poetry anthology from Burundians living in exile. Inspired by the creative force of the large Burundian population living in Rwanda, this…

  • Jalada Africa to launch Languages Anthology

    Jalada Africa to launch Languages Anthology

    Jalada Africa will launch their Languages Anthology, their fourth, this Saturday at the Creatives Garage, off Ngong Road, Nairobi on Saturday, November 14th, 2015. We all know about the collective of writers from all over the continent who changed the way some of us looked at writing in the same way that the Wu-Tang Clan…

  • Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor continues the Jalada Conversations

    Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor continues the Jalada Conversations

    The other week I talked about our friends from Jalada and their innovative way they are introducing their new Languages anthology. They are doing thing this by doing a series of interviews they call “conversations” that they feel will be the best to sell it. The first of the conversations was between Ivorian Renee Edwige…

  • Richard Ali A Mutu kicks off Jalada Conversations

    Richard Ali A Mutu kicks off Jalada Conversations

    Richard Ali A Mutu popularly known as Richard Ali is a very special man. He came to our attention last year for a story in the Africa39 anthology which shows Kinshasha in such vivid detail that I am determined to see this town very soon. The beauty about it is that he wrote this story…

  • Port Harcourt Literature Festival hosts the Africa 39

    Port Harcourt Literature Festival hosts the Africa 39

    Last week was the Port Harcourt Literature Festival in the city of Port Harcourt in Nigeria. The highlight was of course the Africa 39 writers who were in town as part of the World Book Capital 2014 celebrations in the Nigerian coastal town. Reports from the writers state that there are better-organised festivals. The opening…

  • Jalada Africa seeks your porn and sex stories

    Jalada Africa seeks your porn and sex stories

    Jalada Africa is a brilliant new initiative to bring new African voices to the literary landscape. Their first collection of stories was Sketch of a bald woman in the semi-nude and other stories which I really enjoyed. The next collection is already in production and will be a Porn/Sex anthology. The anthology in both English…

  • Jalada Africa’s first short story anthology out

    Jalada Africa’s first short story anthology out

    Jalada Africa is a pan-African writers’ collective aimed at publishing literature by African authors regularly. The idea is to make it as easy as possible for any member to publish anything or execute any literary project as quickly and effectively as possible. I ran into a meeting of the collective a few weeks ago when…