Tag: Nii Ayikwei Parkes
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African writers converge on Alain Mabanckou powered Atlantide 2018
Writers from across the African continent converged on Nantes, France at the Alain Mabanckou-powered Atlantide Literature Festival 2018 on February 15 to 18, 2018. The Atlantide Literature Festival, founded in 2013, has gathered dozens of international and French writers to the French city of Nantes. In 2018, the artistic director of the festival was Alain…
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Mboka Festival 2018 gives tribute to fallen writers
The Mboka Festival 2018 hosted an evening of celebration to honour the life and achievements of Keorapetse Kgositsile, Buchi Emecheta, Dr Raphina Philott Almeida and Musa Jallow on Sunday January 14, 2018. The African Poetry Library at the National Centre for Arts and Culture (NCAC) in Banjul, The Gambia was the venue that hosted an…
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Mboka Festival 2018 literary program unveiled
The literary program for Mboka Festival 2018 has been unveiled. We here at JamesMurua.com have been following the proceedings from Western African country Gambia with the Mboka Festival of Arts, Culture and Sport. The festival is organised by Camp Africa, Global Hands and SABLE Publications with support from partners and funders including, Gambia Tourism Board…
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Sudanese writer Bushra al-Fadil Is the Caine Prize 2017 winner
Sudan’s Bushra al-Fadil Is the Caine Prize 2017 winner for his story The Story of the Girl Whose Birds Flew Away. The announcement was made in London, UK on July 3rd, 2017. The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual literary award for the best original short story by an African writer published in…
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African writers mourn Ghanaian author Kojo Laing
Ghanaian author of short stories and speculative fiction Kojo Laing passed on April 20, 2017. Kojo Laing, born as Bernard Kojo Laing in 1946, is one of the best know writing voices from West African nation with many works to his name. He emerged in the 1970s as a poet winning the National Poetry Prize…
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Caine Prize for Africa Writing 2017 judges announced
The Caine Prize 2017 judges have been announced and they are led by award winning author, poet and, editor Nii Ayikwei Parkes. He will be joined by Monica Arac de Nyeko, Professor Ricardo Ortiz, Ghazi Gheblawi, and Dr Ranka Primorac. The applications for the Caine Prize for Africa Literature will be closing on 31st January…
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A snapshot of the Storymoja Ghana Festival 2016
The Storymoja Ghana Festival 2016 was hosted at the W.E.B. Dubois Centre in Accra, Ghana from 21-25 September 2015. We were there when the Storymoja Festival was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 2007 when we had a little event called the Nyama choma festival. Knowing our love for all things nyama choma (roast meat in…
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Joe Frazier kicks off Ghana Voices Series 2015
The Ghana Voices Series is a monthly event where authors read their work to an audience that was started in 2010 at the Niagara Plus Hotel in Osu in Accra. That first event in June of that year featured Martin Egblewogbe reading from his collection of short stories, Mr Happy and the Hammer of God.…
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A review of Nii Ayikwei Parkes Tail of the Blue Bird
Book: Tail of the Blue Bird Author: Nii Ayikwei Parkes Publisher: Flipped Eye Publishing Year of publication: 2009 Number of pages: 197 Buy your own copy of Tail of the Blue Bird Tail of the Blue Bird published by Flipped Eye Publishing is the debut novel from Ghanaian poet and writer Nii Ayikwei Parkes. It…