Tag: Teju Cole
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US National Book Critics Circle Awards 2023 finalists announced.
The National Book Critics Circle Awards 2023 finalists have been announced today, Thursday, January 25, 2024. Here are the writers of African descent on the lists. The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) bestows its awards honouring the best books published in the past year in the United States since 1974. The finalists are nominated, evaluated,…
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Ngugi Wa Thiong’o to headline action packed Ake Festival 2016
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o will be the headline guest at this year’s edition of Ake Festival 2016. Ngugi, who will sit in conversation with Okey Ndibe about his life and work, will be joined by a galaxy of stars in the African literary space. This year’s edition is themed “Beneath this Skin.’ 15-19 November 2016 are…
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No Africans for Windham Campbell Prize in 2016
There were no Africans in the Windham Campbell Prize selections that were announced earlier in the month. Sob. So every year, we all eagerly look through our emails hoping to hear that we are the winners of the coolest awards on the planet. This award was founded by lifelong partners, Donald Windham and Sandy M.…
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Teju Cole and Taiye Selasi are NOT Charlie
Teju Cole and Taiye Selasi have withdrawn from the PEN USA gala at the World Voices Festival, a weeklong event that brings dozens of writers from around the globe to New York City. The two Africans have a valid reason for withdrawing from this prestigious event; PEN American Center has decided to give its annual…
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Teju Cole, Helon Habila, and Ivan Vladislavić get paid! #WindamCampellPrize2015
We have a winner or rather a list of winners for the Winham Campbell Prize 2015. And just like last year when Aminatta Forna was feted, there is an African on the list. In fact this year there are three; Teju Cole, Helon Habila, and Ivan Vladislavić all who are writers of fiction. The first…
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Meet African writers on the Palm Print’s The Living Room
Getting to read Africans is getting easier and easier with spaces like Amazon and more publishers than ever getting into the fiction space in the recent past. Whilst it is relatively easy to pick up the book and read the story from the author the author is usually unseen like in other art forms like…
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Top Writers in New African 100 most influential list.
The New African magazine has published its highly regarded 100 Hundred Most Influential Africans 2014 and it has some of what the team who run the publication considers the Africans to watch in 2014. The list is segmented into different categories like politics, media, arts and culture, business, and more. A few of the writers…
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Excerpt for new old Teju Cole book Every Day is for the Thief
So Teju Cole came to Nairobi in a blaze of glory last year at the Storymoja Hay Festival. He came to these shores on the back of the Faber & Faber published Open City. The book is about a psychotic rapist Nigerian/German walking around New York and giving his strange view of the world. The…
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Teju Cole’s Open City; A review
Book: Open City Writer: Teju Cole Nationality: Nigeria/USA Number of pages: 259 Publisher: Faber and Faber. Open City is the highly praised debut novel of Nigerian/US writer Teju Cole who was the main speaker at the Storymoja Hay Festival in 2013. The novel is about Julius, a psychiatrist who was born to a Nigerian father…
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The Storymoja Hay Festival cancelled… will be back better.
I am not a huge fan of terrorists. It’s just not my scene. I report on the social aspect of the human story. Birthday parties. Weddings. Literature. National Days of countries in Kenya, launches of products. You will never see me at the front line of a major news story unless you see me covering…