Tag: Niq Mhlongo
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Pa Gya! A Literary Festival In Accra for October 2017
The Pa Gya! Literary Festival is set to happen at the Goethe Institut in Accra, Ghana from October 20-22, 2017. It’s been a busy time in the Ghana literary scene in recent times with many things happening from festivals like the Ghana International Book Fair and the Nkabom Literary Festival as well as the Ghana…
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A snapshot of the South African Book Fair 2017
The South African Book Fair 2017 was hosted in Johannesburg from September 8-10. The festival theme was #OURSTORIES. It was a lit few days as some of the best known authors and others in the literary scene converged on Johannesburg for the South African Book Fair 2017. The list of the people see and interact…
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African literary deliciousness in Nairobi, Joburg tonight
It’s all happening in Nairobi and Johannesburg as writers converge on their big towns for African literary deliciousness. Last night Niq Mhlongo unleashed his latest literary gem a short story collection called Affluenza to the world with a launch at Sakhumzi’s Restaurant on Vilakazi Street. We are hearing good things. If you know anyone who…
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South African writers support their strays with new anthology
In 1985, American artists led by Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie came up with a song called We Are The World to help the people of Ethiopia who were going through a horrible drought. It is still one of the best examples of artists coming together to alleviate suffering. South African writers, many of them…
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Authors give tributes to late Zimbabwean author and poet Chenjerai Hove
Zimbabwean author, poet, and commentator Chenjerai Hove passed on in Stavanger, Norway on Sunday. The author who was born in Mazvihwa in 1956 leaves a wife and six children. Hove began life as a teacher before working as an editor for Mambo Press then devoted his life to writing. His works include Masimba Avanhu (1986),…
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Niq Mhlongo’s Affluenza and German Way Back Home
South African Niq Mhlongo is the author of three novels Dog Eat Dog, After Tears ,and Way Back Home. I have read all three and the best of the lot is the most recent one Way Back Home about a tenderprenuer who was an exile fighting for South African freedom. It’s not only brilliant but…
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Long Story Short: Niq Mhlongo next on line
South African author Niq Mhlongo is next in line for the Long Story Short project with his story Gollywood Drama being read by theatre heavyweight Mbali Kgosidintsi. The reading will be happening at 532 Love Lane Street, Hammanskraal (Hammanskraal Community Library) on 25th April. The Long Story Short Project aims at celebrating and elevating African…
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Cynthia Jele short story to kick off Long Story Short Project
There are so many events in and around the African Literature sphere in the very recent. One of the ones which I have been tracking and that interests me very much is the Long Story Short project which is the brainchild of Yewande Omotoso. Omotoso for the uninformed most recently was announced as one of…
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Dilman Dila meets Napo Masheane at Goethe-Institut Johannesburg
I’m starting to notice a pattern with these folks from Germany’s Goethe Institut. Its looking like these fellows are the one’s hosting a lot of the really cool literary events on the African continent be it Authors talk in Nigeria or Conversations with African Authors in Kenya. This month alone there shall be one event…
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Niq Mhlongo lives it up at Edinburgh Literary Fest 2014
Niq Mhlongo was one of the battalions of South African writers who invaded Scotland for one of the biggest literature festivals on the planet: The Edinburgh International Book Festival. The writer is well known for his books Dog Eat Dog, After Tears, and his latest Way Back Home which is as good a book as…