'My mother said there was something they drank that made their voices sour, something that made their voices hoarse and hollow like a ghost’s spectral cough.
Sonnie must have drunk it, just like the many other bus conductors hanging out of Lagos buses like demented monkeys, their rasping voices screaming: “Oshodi o! One more yansh!”
Brian Chikwava’s Harare North is one of the most talked-about African novels of the year. We caught up with Brian in London just after this year’s Hay festival in June. In this 30 minute interview, he talks about the language of his book, the writing process, artistic integrity, his favourite books, the importance of the internet, the location of the writer and the short story as the ideal medium between the poem and the novel.
Lola Shoneyin was interviewed recently on RTE’s the Art Show. Shoneyin’s much-anticipated debut novel, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives is published by Cassava Republic Press in February 2010.
We’re utterly excited to be the first to be publishing this fresh voice in African writing. The American and UK publication will follow later next year.
Her poetry collection For the Love of Flight will be out in October.
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the renowned literary magazine Wasafiri is launching a new writing prize. The deadline for submissions is 30th June 2009.
Are you thinking of an online Creative Writing Course? You may consider this tailored-to-fit course with friendly and supportive professional writer Liz Ashworth.
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I’m back in Uppsala, the beautiful Swedish University town 40 minutes by train from Stockholm. I’ll be participating in the What’s Culture Got to Do With It conference (details here),...
I read my first novel at age seven or so. It was an Enid Blyton book; one of the Famous Five series. I went on to read many more books and in the process fell...
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Rendezvous by Chrispus Kimaru, he wins again! Read it here
And now a little bit about the scheduled Storymoja Story of the Month. All stories that will be submitted by Sunday 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th of the month of July ...
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