Tag: Zukiswa Wanner
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Ayobami Adebayo and Zukiswa Wanner dazzle Nairobi residents
Ayobami Adebayo and Zukiswa Wanner dazzled Nairobi residents over a series of literary events from February 22-24, 2018. The two were in the city at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut Nairobi. There was a whirlwind of literary activity in Nairobi this past weekend as two beloved literary personalities strutted their stuff in the green city…
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Book Buzz Foundation posts up Ake Festival 2017 interviews
The Ake Arts and Book Festival 2017 was hosted in Abeokuta, Nigera from November 14-17, 2017. The Book Buzz Foundation, the festival organisers, have posted videos from festival guests online. The Ake Festival 2017 was the fifth edition of the highly regarded literary event in the West African nation. The festival took the theme of…
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Exclusive: Cover for new Zukiswa Wanner book “Hardly Working” Unveiled
The cover for Zukiswa Wanner’s new book Hardly Working published by Black Letter Media, the South African’s first entry into the travel/memoir genre, has been unveiled. Zukiswa Wanner burst onto the South African literary scene when her novel The Madams was published in 2006. The novel turned the concept of the madam on its head…
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Orlando Pirates Players join Zukiswa Wanner at World Read Aloud Day?
Players for the South African premier league squad Orlando Pirates are set to join Zukiswa Wanner at a public reading to children on World Read Aloud Day in Soweto, South Africa on February 1, 2018, according to our well-placed sources. Every year on World Read Aloud Day, people all around the globe read aloud together…
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Zukiswa Wanner and Niq Mhlongo selected for Johannesburg Writing Fellowships
Zukiswa Wanner and Niq Mhlongo are two of those who have been selected for The Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study 2018 Writing Fellowships. The Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study is a joint initiative of the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Launched in May 2015, JIAS aims to create the conditions…
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Victor Ehikhamenor and Koleka Putuma thrill at Goethe Nairobi
Victor Ehikhamenor and Koleka Putuma shared their brilliance at the Goethe Nairobi on March 16th, 2017. They were moderated by Daystar University don Dr Wandia Njoya. Artistic Encounters is a new project running out of Goethe Nairobi where artists of different genres meet and share their art. The project curated by Zukiswa Wanner will see…
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Huza Press Prize for Fiction 2016 Shortlist unveiled
The Huza Press Prize for Fiction 2016 shortlist was announced on February 28, 2017. The good people at Huza Press Prize for Fiction 2016 have announced those in the running for the ultimate prize in Rwandan writing. The shortlist of ten writers was chosen by judges Paula Akugizibwe, Zukiswa Wanner, Richard Ali, and Felwine Sarr.…
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Lesego Rampolokeng, Zukiswa Wanner feature at Sol Plaatje University Summer School
Lesego Rampolokeng, Zukiswa Wanner, and Moagi Modise were the featured guest lecturers at Sol Plaatje Summer Writing School that happened from January 9 – 13, 2017. Sol Plaatje, pronounced Sol Plackie, was a South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer. He was a founder member and first General Secretary of the South African…
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African writers threaten City of Durban with lawsuit
Professionals in the literary industry are up in arms against the City of Durban for lack of payment for the ARTiculate Africa festival 2017. The group of mainly aggrieved writers come from all off the continent. In November 2016, the ARTiculate Africa literary festival was hosted in Durban, South Africa as part of the Essence…
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Authors and books at the Ake Arts and Book Festival 2016
It was a special time in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria as the Ake Arts and Book Festival rolled into town from 15-19th November 2016. The festival kicked off official on 16th November with a colourful ceremony at the Hurbert Ogunde Hall at the 12 June Cultural Centre. Festival organisers had gone all the way this…
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Abantu Book Festival 2016 announces confirmed guests
The Abantu Festival 2016 set for 06 – 10 December in Soweto, South Africa have announced some of their guests and the lineup is epic. The Abantu Book Festival with Thando Mgqolozana as director and Panashe Chigumadzi as curator is organised under the theme, Our Stories. The new festival celebrates African stories through written and…
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Residencies galore: Ukamaka Olisakwe, Zukiswa Wanner, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
African writers like Ukamaka Olisakwe, Zukiswa Wanner, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and others are currently either in the middle of or headed to residencies galore. “Artist-in-residence programs and other residency opportunities exist to invite artists, academicians, curators, and all manner of creative people for a time and space away from their usual environment and obligations. They provide a…
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Fiston Mwanza Mujila and Penny Busetto dazzle at Etisalat Prize 2015 Nairobi tour
Etisalat Prize 2015 winner Fiston Mwanza Mujila and shortlistee Penny Busetto dazzled as they featured at a variety of Nairobi spaces Etisalat Prize 2015 Nairobi tour. They included Daystar and Nairobi Universities, the Goethe Institute and the party on Saturday at Pawa 254. One of the coolest of the events was at the Goethe Institut,…
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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor speaks Displacement & Refuge at Goethe Nairobi
The Goethe in Nairobi has been hosting a series of events titled “Displacement & Refuge” where experts and authors speak about the pain of displacement after conflict. The first of these happened in 31st March 2016 as German author Tanja Dückers and poet and writer SitawaNamwalie spoke about this issue. Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor was a…
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The Time of the Writer 2016 program
The focus of the week festival wise has to be The Time of The Writer literary festival which kicked off today in Durban, South Africa. The festival which is in its 19th year will be hosting writers from around the continent and further afield will run until Saturday 19th March. Some of the writers who…