Talking China in Africa at the PEN World Voices Festival in New York. Literary festivals are usually a disappointment. Vice News and the war against Boko Haram. The old is dying and the young ones have just been born. We are angels, victims of everybody.

African writers should realise that there is a price to pay for a suburban existence in a sedated part of the world. 8221; For people to .

Podcasts of 2015 Shortlisted Stories. The Caine Prize has commissioned podcasts of the 2015 shortlist, to run alongside the pdfs of each story that are uploaded for audiences to read in the run up to the announcement of the 16th Caine Prize winner on 6 July. Click the links below to listen to the stories. Listen to The Folded Leaf, read by Olu Alake, produced by Alice Lloyd.

And so it is in Montecito, after the fire passed by and the mountain came down. Perhaps it is because the .

Sunday, May 22, 2011. Novelist, poet, and essayist Mukoma Wa Ngugi is the author of Nairobi Heat. He was short listed for the Caine Prize for African writing. He has also been shortlisted for the 2010 Penguin Prize for African Writing. A former co-editor of Pambazuka News.

Mukoma Wa Ngugi and Laura T. When African literature is published in the West, it is all too often realist, in English, and in the spirit of Chinua Achebe. Laugh always arriving a beat too late. A line stretched thin across the ocean and for.

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The Global South Cultural Dialogue Project. Imagining a more egalitarian global culture. The project brings together scholars, writers and activists who share the. Idea that the Cultures of the South have a great deal to learn from each other by engaging in direct relationships and establishing direct lines of cultural and intellectual communication.

TSSF Magazine, on Nov 1, opened its call for submissions.