Tag: Samuel Kolawole

  • Diane Awerbuck is the Short Story Day Africa 2014 winner

    Diane Awerbuck is the Short Story Day Africa 2014 winner

    The Short Story Day Africa prize has been announced. Short Story Day Africa for the uninformed brings together writers, readers, booksellers, publishers, teachers and school children from all over the globe to write, submit, read, workshop and discuss stories – and foster the love of reading and writing African fiction. They also run a prize…

  • A Smashing Writivism 2014

    A Smashing Writivism 2014

    The last week saw one of the biggest gatherings of African writers on this continent of ours for a long while as the Writivism Festival 2014 rolled into Kampala, Uganda. There were also writing master classes, panels, speeches, and a variety of talks from Ellen Banda-Aaku, Samuel Kolawole, Zukiswa Wanner, literary agent David Godwin, Ella…