Tag: Yewande Omotoso
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The Koffi Addo Writivism Prize for Non Fiction 2016 call out
The Koffi Addo Writivism Prize for Non Fiction is an annual award for non-fiction by emerging African writers resident in Ghana administered by the Center for African Cultural Excellence (CACE). This award is open to Ghanaian writers but in future will have other African nationals. So who is this Koffi Addo y0u ask? Nana Koffi…
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Writivism Workshop 2016 participants announced at Ake Festival 2015
The young writers who will be taking part in the Writivism workshops in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry were announced on Friday afternoon at the Ake Festival happening in Abeokuta, Nigeria. The workshops will be running in Accra, Kampala, Abidjan, Dakar, and Goma in 2016 and will be facilitated by Yewande Omotoso, Sitawa Namwalie, Mamadou Diallo,…
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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…
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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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Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike’s story for Long Story Short
I’ve been following the Long Story Short Project where the work of African writing is brought alive with interest. The work of some of the best writers on the continent is read by some of the better names in the arts in recordings that are presented as podcasts. It’s scintillating stuff with previous writers like…
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Long Story Short; Chibundu Onuzo reading next
I’ve talked about this hot new literary event called Long Story Short which is the brainchild of Kgauhelo Dube and curated by Yewande Omotoso. The idea is that instead of having the prose only in the written form the word is read by some of the people who are leading in the performing arts. These…
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The African Women’s Development Fund and Femrite have something for you ladies
If you are an African women writer or journalist, you are free from July 27 to August 5, 2015, and came to make it to Kampala, Uganda then do I have a deal for you? The African Women’s Development Fund and Femrite (Uganda Women Writers Association) have organised a 10-day writing workshop dubbed the Writing…
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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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Writivism Creative Writing Workshop 2015 attendees announced
It’s all happening at the Ake Festival today. Our friends from Writivism have announced the writers who will be attending the Writivism 2015 workshops in cities around the continent. The writers who were shortlisted will attend workshops led by Dilman Dila (Kampala), Zukiswa Wanner and Anne Ayeta Wangusa (Dar es Salaam), Yewande Omotoso and Saaleha…
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The Sunday Salon with Noviolet, Jennings and Yewande
The Sunday Salon. It came to us in 2008 as a new space Nairobians could enjoy listening to literature apart from the Kwani Open Mic which had become a bit crazy with the drinking in that gig going into the wee hours of the next morning. In that year, we had writers like Muthoni Garland,…
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Noviolet Bulawayo, Karen Jennings and Yewande Omotoso for Nairobi
Noviolet Bulawayo, Karen Jennings, and Yewande Omotoso who were shortlisted for the Etisalat Prize for African Literature will be in Kenya next week. They will be here as part of their three-city promotion tour which was one of the prizes that they went home with when they were shortlisted. For those who want to interact…
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Noviolet Bulwayo gives up Etisalat fellowship to Yewande Omotoso
Zimbabwean writer Noviolet Bulawayo was the winner of the inaugural Etisalat Prize for African Literature earlier this year for her book “We Need New Names.” Apart from the US$15,000 prize money she was also supposed to participate in a unique £10,000 fellowship to the winner of the Etisalat Prize for Literature lasting four months in…
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Youssou N’dour for Etisalat Prize for African Literature 2014 Ceremony
The Etisalat Prize for African literature is set to be announced in Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday with a performance by very famous artist Youssou N’dour. The event which we have been following for the last few years with the long list and then the shortlist has been quite cool. Now we come to the main…
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A review of Bom Boy by Yewande Omotoso
Book: Bom Boy Writer: Yewande Omotoso Publisher: Modjadji Books Year of publication: 2011 Number of pages: 255 Bom Boy by Yewande Omotoso published by Modjadji Books recently found itself (magically?) on the shortlist for the Etisalat Prize for African Literature 2014. With this happening I went back and reread the book I first enjoyed in…