Tag: Richard Ali Mutu
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Richard Ali Mutu kicks off Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 1
Richard Ali Mutu has officially kicked off Afrolit Sans Frontières Season 1 from Kinshasa, DR Congo on March 23, 2020. The Afrolit Sans Frontiers virtual literary festival, an initiative from writers of African origin, curated by Zukiswa Wanner is here. 16 writers from 10 African countries are set to share their work from 15 different…
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Afrolit Sans Frontieres Virtual Literary Festival kicks off on March 23.
The Afrolit Sans Frontieres Virtual Literary Festival, an initiative of writers of African origin curated by Zukiswa Wanner, kicks off on the Internet from March 23 – 30, 2020. In the last few weeks, the world has become unrecognisable as the Corona Virus pandemic reaches across the planet. Activity has ground to a halt in…
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Meet the facilitators for the Goethe Institut’s #AfroYoungAdult workshops.
The team running the Goethe sponsored #AfroYoungAdult project has announced the facilitators for the workshops to be conducted across eight African cities. In September 2018, the Goethe-Institut invited aspiring African writers interested in writing for Young Adult fiction to submit short stories of 3000-5000 words in length in Kiswahili, English or French. The best texts…
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CACE announces guidelines for Writivism Short Story Prize 2016
The Writivism Short Story Prize is an annual award for emerging African writers administered by the Center for African Cultural Excellence (CACE). The prize which was started in 2015 by was won by Pemi Aguda. The race for the new prize winner is officially on with our friends at CACE announcing the guidelines for the…
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Writivism 2016 Workshop Facilitators announced
The facilitators who will be running the 2016 writing workshops in cities around the continent have been announced. They will be Yewande Omotoso, Edwige-Renee Dro, Richard Ali Mutu, Sitawa Namwalie and Mamadou Diallo. We have covered Yewande Omotoso a lot on this blog; she has been very active in the writing thing for the last…