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  • Literary Magazines: Jalada, Johannesburg Review of Books, Ipikai, Weganda

    Literary Magazines: Jalada, Johannesburg Review of Books, Ipikai, Weganda

    New editions of Jalada, Johannesburg Review of Books, Ipikai, and Weganda are available for your reading pleasure. Jalada Jalada Africa is a pan-African writers’ collective, with the aim of publishing literature by African authors regularly founded in 2014. Their latest issue is a translations project lead by Wanjeri Gakuru and artwork is by Marziya Mohammedali.…

  • Jalada Africa’s “Bodies Anthology” launches in Nairobi.

    Jalada Africa’s “Bodies Anthology” launches in Nairobi.

    The Bodies Anthology, the tenth from the Nairobi-based Pan African collective Jalada Africa, launched at the Kioko Mwitiki Gallery, Nairobi on Friday, December 13, 2019. Pan African writers’ collective and publisher Jalada was born in 2014 when writers from across the continent converged for a literary do in Nairobi. Since then the collective has gone…

  • Callouts: Jalada, Arablit Quarterly, Colour Culture Arts, Rari Poetry, Commonwealth, Myaambo.

    Callouts: Jalada, Arablit Quarterly, Colour Culture Arts, Rari Poetry, Commonwealth, Myaambo.

    We share six opportunities for writers to showcase their work and learn across the continent. It’s a good time in the African literary scene with many opportunities for those who want to either learn the craft or share their work to the world. Dear African writer, here are a few opportunities for you to take…

  • Jalada’s latest anthology “AFTER+LIFE” launches in Nairobi.

    Jalada’s latest anthology “AFTER+LIFE” launches in Nairobi.

    Jalada’s newest anthology AFTER+LIFE launched at the McMillan Library in Nairobi on May 31, 2019. Jalada is a pan-African writers’ collective that was born when writers from across the continent had converged in Nairobi for a literary event in 2014. That collective went on to publish the critically acclaimed anthologies Sketch of a Bald Woman…

  • Jalada seeks submissions for sixth anthology “AFTER+LIFE.”

    Jalada seeks submissions for sixth anthology “AFTER+LIFE.”

    Jalada, the Pan African collective, is looking for submissions of fiction, poetry, prose and visual art for its sixth anthology AFTER+LIFE. Jalada is a pan-African writers’ collective that was born from a team of writers that had converged in Nairobi for a literary event. That collective of a few dozen writers from across the continent…

  • Jalada’s Afrofuture anthology is coming; be afraid, be very afraid

    Jalada’s Afrofuture anthology is coming; be afraid, be very afraid

    Jalada’s Afrofuture anthology: Jalada Africa has announced that their newest anthology with the “Afrofuture” theme will be unleashed on an unsuspecting public on January 2015. They have given a sneak peek of the anthology with a non-fiction piece on visual artist Wangechi Mutu and her career by Binyanvanga Wainaina. The hottest new thing in the…