Tag: New Daughters of Africa
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“New Daughters of Africa” launches in Johannesburg, South Africa.
New Daughters of Africa, the seminal anthology edited by Margaret Busby, launched in Johannesburg, South Africa on August 4, 2019. New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, features the writing of over 200 women writers in Africa and its diaspora. It is a sequel to Daughters of Africa, also edited by Busby and published…
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Africa Writes Bristol 2019 festival to celebrate African writing.
Africa Writes Bristol 2019 is set to celebrate contemporary literature and thought from Africa and the diaspora from June 30 – July 4, 2019. Africa Writes Bristol 2019, co-produced by TJ Dema and Kate Wallis, is an offshoot of the popular London, UK based Africa Writes festival that has been running since 2014. It is…
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Africa Writes 2019 features New Daughters of Africa, Chigozie Obioma.
Africa Writes 2019 returns on July 5-7, 2019 and will star the New Daughters of Africa, and Chigozie Obioma. The Africa Writes festival is a celebration of contemporary literature from Africa and the diaspora, brought to you by The Royal African Society and presented in partnership with the British Library. Previous headline speakers have been…
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Anni Domingo, Rutendo Chabikwa win Myriad Manuscript Prize 2018.
Anni Domingo and Rutendo Chabikwa are the winners of the Myriad Manuscript Prize 2018. The prize is a first drafts competition for unpublished writers. UK based Myriad publishes award-winning literary fiction, graphic novels, political nonfiction, and ground-breaking infographic atlases. The organisation supports new and emerging authors with two competitions for work-in-progress in fiction and graphic novels.…