Tag: Zukiswa Wanner
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Super Thursday: Zukiswa Wanner, Panashe Chigumadzi and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
Zukiswa Wanner, Panashe Chigumadzi and Abubakar Adam Ibrahim will be in discussions about their work in Abuja and Johannesburg today. It’s a Super Thursday as far as we are concerned as some of the more well regarded names in the African literature are concerned talk about their work in unrelated events in two African cities.…
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Long Story Short: All the videos from 2015
Check out all the videos of the Long Story Short from 2015 project below. Last year was the one where we were all introduced to a concept called “Long Story Short.” The concept which was a brainchild of South African Kgauhelo Dube and curated by Yewande Omotoso. In it there would be public readings of…
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A brief look back at Writivism Festival 2013 #TBT
It looks like this year’s Writivism Festival will be the best yet. That list of guests you will meet at this festival is looking quite healthy. Anyone who follows Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire on social media will follow his happy announcements of the latest Prince Clause Fund artist whose travel has been funded to Kampala. For…
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Twelve writers for Caine Prize workshop 2015 in Ghana
The Caine Prize workshop is one of those events that come along once a year. In these workshops which have been happening since 2003, writers who were shortlisted for the Caine Prize in the previous year are joined by other promising writers. They are mentored by experienced writers on the craft of writing. The workshops…
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Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire interviews African authors on This is Africa
Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire will be familiar to readers of this blog as one of the driving forces behind the Writivism initiative. The Writivism initiative aims at mentoring the next generation of writers in conjunction with the current writers on the continent. Bwesigye will be hosting a series of interviews of nine African authors that will…