The Making and Re-making of Zimbabwe Sunday 1 July, British Library 11:30 – 12:45 With Panashe Chigumadzi and Novuyo Rosa Tshuma. Chaired by Ranka Primorac. Spanning fifty tumultuous years in southern Africa, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s debut novel House of Stone…
Progressive Pasts: The Afrofuturist Ideologies of Black Panther in Literature, Art and Fashion Sunday 1 July, British Library 12:00 – 13:30 An interactive workshop with Ifeanyi Awachie and Moha Lami Audu (FUNCTION) & Ziki Nelson (Kugali). Learn to read Afrofuturist…
Small Magazines, Literary Networks & Self-Fashioning in Africa and the Diaspora Sunday 1 July, British Library 12:30 – 13:45 With Christopher Ouma, Kate Wallis, Madhu Krishnan, Nancy Adimora, Dzekashu MacViban and Jama Musse Jama. Exploring magazines in contemporary African literary…
Loving Womxn: Deliberate and Afraid of Nothing Sunday 1 July 13:00 – 14:15 Queer womxn’s narratives in Africa and the diaspora with Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Trifonia Melibea Obono and Liv Little. Chaired by Eliza Anyangwe. This event brings together…
Books In Your Ears: On Literary Podcasts Sunday 1 July 14:00 – 15:15 With BooksAndRhymes, bookshybooks, Dzekashu MacViban, Will Taylor, Eloise Stevens, and Beverly Ochieng & Nyambura Mutanyi (via video). Chaired by Kate Wallis. A discussion looking at one of the…
Lives of Great Men by Chiké Frankie Edozien Sunday 1 July, British Library 14:30 – 15:00 Book launch with Chiké Frankie Edozien in conversation with John Gordon. From Victoria Island, Lagos to Brooklyn, U.S.A. to Accra, Ghana to Paris, France;…
Africa in Translation Masterclass Sunday 1 July, British Library 14:30 – 16:30 | £15, £12 This 2-hour masterclass with Wangui wa Goro is designed for translators who are either interested, starting out, or experienced in the craft of translating literary texts out of and…
African Books to Inspire Sunday 1 July 15:15 – 16:30 With Akwaeke Emezi, Ayesha Harruna Attah and Novuyo Rosa Tshuma. Chaired by Panashe Chigumadzi. Join us for an afternoon of books and inspiration as four Africa Writes 2018 launch authors…
Meet Octavia, the poetry collective for womxn of colour, founded by Rachel Long. Octavia was born in response to the lack of representation and inclusivity in literature and academia. Since 2015, Octavia have come together to read beyond the canon and…
AFREADA x Africa Writes Present: Warsan Shire Flash Fiction Competition The UK’s biggest annual African literature festival is just around the corner and, as the creatures of habit that we are, we’ve decided to return with the AFREADA x Africa…