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Reviews

Clemantine Wamariya Writes a Moving Account of the Rwandan Genocide

ByEditorJuly 24, 2018March 10, 2021

In the early pages of her memoir, The Girl Who Smiled Beads, Clemantine Wamayira confesses: “I have never been inviolable. Often, still, my own life story feels fragmented, like beads unstrung. Each time I scoop up my memories, the assortment is slightly different.” In...

Events Reviews

Yomi Sode an Exciting African Playwright

ByEditorJuly 1, 2018August 19, 2018

by, Lydia Kakwera Levy Africa Writes, the annual literature festival sponsored by the Royal African Society is currently taking place in London and will end on Sunday, July 1, 2018. One of the most sought after ticket of the festival was to Yomi Sode’s...

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Contemporary African Writers and Social Media

ByEditorMay 17, 2018May 17, 2018

by Lydia Kakwera Levy Is Social Media good for Contemporary African Writers? What are some benefits and drawbacks of using social media to publish one’s work? At a recent panel discussion celebrating the five-year anniversary of Writivism, the topic of social media was front...

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and The Politics of African Languages

ByEditorApril 25, 2018September 16, 2018

by Lydia Kakwera Levy At the 7th Annual Igbo Association Conference, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discussed the gap within Igbo communities to document and archive their histories. Adichie made a plea for all African communities in the diaspora to preserve their linguistic heritage. As a...

Events Reviews

Buchi Emecheta archival exhibition

ByEditorApril 15, 2018April 25, 2018

From April 5-April 19th, manuscripts from the writer Buchi Emecheta’s archives will be on display at Goldsmiths University, in London. The exhibition is titled “Comeback Mother: Buchi Emecheta.” This archival and performance exhibition explores Emecheta’s views and wit on feminism, race and identity. The...

Interview

Writing Our Culture

ByEditorApril 13, 2018April 13, 2018

Kwanjura Conversation with Amoti Alice Katenta Amoti: In the old tradition, when you found a husband before you could marry, the two families had to meet. Today we say Kwanjura- the introduction of the families. Kwanjura Owaitu (in our culture), means everyone gets...

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African literature and achebe

ByEditorApril 9, 2018April 15, 2018

Sixty years ago, Chinua Achebe published one of the most well read novels titled: Things Fall Apart (1958). This novel has played a great role in allowing readers to see how African literature engages history and politics. If you are interested in politics, I...

Interview

ByEditorMarch 31, 2018January 5, 2022

It has been said that literature is a great icebreaker. In this short discussion, I spoke to Toyin Jawanda, who lives and works in Nigeria. We talked about the small book We Should All Be Feminist by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This book is poignant...

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Book Review- Nervous Conditions

ByEditorMarch 30, 2018April 13, 2018

I want to begin this book review by recommending two books that had a profound impact on me as a young reader. My love and appreciation of Africana literature began with two books: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye (1970) and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel Nervous...

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