Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire While working on the programming for the #Writivism2015 festival, my colleague and the fulcrum of the administration of the 2015 Writivism project at the Centre for African Cultural Excellence in Kampala, Rebecca Rwakabukoza always insisted on the…
Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire The Africa39 project needs no introduction. Does it? I think African Books To Inspire however needs. In fact, requires. Most times, when writers are invited to speak on panels, to participate in conversations, it is about their…
A contribution from our #100DaysofAfricanReads collaboration What are your ‘African Books to Inspire’? Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique by Goncalo Tavares. I exploit a technicality in choosing Goncalo Tavares’ novel: he’s Angolan-born. Learning to Pray possesses in spades an alienative…
A contribution from our #100DaysofAfricanReads collaboration What are your ‘African Books to Inspire’? Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owour This beautiful and difficult book poignantly captures loss of family, self and nationhood. Yvonne weaves a sorrowful tale that takes Kenyans to lands…
Ben Okri sits among the greats, not only of Nigerian or African literature, but of the world’s literature. Here is a list including his 1991 novel The Famished Road. Seeing the names of such esteemed Nigerian Novelists alongside Okri’s in…