Tag: Musa Okwonga
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Writers of African descent on UK’s Gordon Burn Prize 2021 longlist.
Musa Okwonga, Hanif Abdurraqib, Salena Godden, Courttia Newland, and Caleb Azuma Nelson are on the longlist for the Gordon Burn Prize 2021 announced today, June 22, 2021. Gordon Burn was an English writer who wrote four novels and several works of non-fiction who passed away in 2009. In 2013 the Gordon Burn Prize, celebrating fiction…
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African writers converge for Berlin’s first African Book Festival.
Writers from across the African continent converged on Berlin for the first African Book Festival with Chris Abani as the headliner on April 26-28, 2018. Organised by the InterKontinental and curated by Olumide Popoola, the festival looked at transnationalism and migration in a more literary sense of “keeping in motion”. Berlin has a very unique…