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…
Between October 2014 and January 2015 Angela Wachuka AKA Sister Killjoy shared her #100DaysofAfricanReads – a beautiful series of portraits highlighting the work of an African author in print or online each day for 100 days. Ahead of our own…
What are your thoughts on “African Books to Inspire”? I spend most of my time looking into the screen of my laptop waiting for the right phrase, the better wording of a sentence – sensing semi-formed ideas welling up –…
What is your “African book to inspire”? It has to be Things Fall Apart – usual suspect, yes, I know, but I had to choose it. I first read it back in my student day and apart from being ‘the…
Ben Okri expounds and exalts “the genius of inner freedom” in this profound yet controversial article for The Guardian. From James Joyce to Homer, Okri argues that great literature transcends subject; the beauty of art giving the work a greater…
Trailer 'N - THE MADNESS OF REASON', a film by Peter Krüger - ENG SUBTITLES from INTI FILMS on Vimeo.
N is a story of an unusual obsession. It recounts the story of the Frenchman Raymond Borremans, who left Europe for Africa in the mid-20th century. He devoted his life to the creation of the first encyclopaedia of this other…
Below musician, Harper Simon and Ben Okri describe how they met and how Okri came to compose lyrics for Simon’s solo album, including the song, Wishes and Stars, featured in the video. Or did Simon compose the music for Okri’s words?…