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Africa39
Africa39 was a collaborative project initiated by the Hay Festival in partnership with Rainbow Book Club, celebrating Port Harcourt: UNESCO World Book Capital 2014 by identifying 39 of the most promising writers under the age of 40 with the potential and talent to define trends in the development of literature from Africa and the African diaspora."Imagine the World" Africa39, Hay Festival. Launched in 2014, Africa39 followed the success of two previous Hay Festival initiatives linked to World Book Capital cities, Bogotá39 (2007) and Beirut39 (2009). The judges for Africa39 were |
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond (born October 5) is an American-Ghanaian writer of novels, short stories and a poet. She has written for AOL, ''Parenting Magazine'', the ''Village Voice'', ''Metro'' and ''Trace Magazine''. Her short story "Bush Girl" was published in the May 2008 issues of ''African Writing'' and her poem "The Whinings of a Seven Sister Cum Laude Graduate Working Board as an Assistant" was published in 2006’s ''Growing up Girl Anthology''. A cum laude graduate of Vassar College, she attended secondary school in Ghana. Her book ''Powder Necklace'' is loosely based on the experience. In 2014 she was chosen as one of 39 of Sub-Saharan Africa's most promising writers under the age of 40, showcased in the Africa39 project and included in the anthology ''Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara'' (edited by Ellah Allfrey). She is also a contributor to the 2019 anthology ''Daughters of Africa#New Daughters of Africa, New Daughters of Africa'', edited by Margaret Busb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackee Budesta Batanda
Jackee Budesta Batanda is a Ugandan journalist,Jackee Budesta Batanda profile page ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 10 April 2014. writer and entrepreneur.Invitation to the November Writing Workshop – with writers Jackee Batanda and Shafinaaz Hassim 30 October 2013 , allaboutwritingcourses.com. Retrieved 10 April 2014. She is a senior managing partner with Success Spark Brand Limited, a communications and educational company, and a co-founder of Maste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Arac De Nyeko
Monica Arac de Nyeko (born 1979) is a Ugandan writer of short fiction, poetry, and essays, living in Nairobi.Monica Arac de Nyeko african-writing.com. Retrieved 5 May 2014. In 2007 she became the first Ugandan to win the ,2007 winner: MONICA ARAC DE NYEKO , caineprize.com. Retrieved 5 May 2014. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eileen Barbosa
Eileen Almeida Barbosa is a Cape Verdean writer and former advisor to the Prime Minister. She has a bachelor's degree in Tourism and Marketing. In 2005 Barbosa received the National Pantera Revelation Prize for Short Stories, as well as the Pantera Revelation Prize for Poetry. ''Eileenístico'', a collection of short stories, was published in 2007. In 2014, Barbosa was chosen as one of those named in the Africa39 project to showcase promising young African writers, and was included in the anthology ''Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara'' (edited by Ellah Allfrey Ellah Wakatama, OBE, Hon. FRSL (born 16 September 1966), is Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books, a senior Research Fellow at Manchester University and Chair of the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing. She was the founding Publishing Direct ..., 2014). One reviewer commented: "My favorite piece was Eileen Almeida Barbosa's mellifluous and passionate 'Two Fragments of Love,' and I hope more of her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ( ; born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer whose works include novels, short stories and nonfiction. She was described in ''The Times Literary Supplement'' as "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors hichis succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature", particularly in her second home, the United States. Adichie has written the novels '' Purple Hibiscus'' (2003), '' Half of a Yellow Sun'' (2006), and ''Americanah'' (2013), the short story collection '' The Thing Around Your Neck'' (2009), and the book-length essay ''We Should All Be Feminists'' (2014). Her most recent books are '' Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions'' (2017), ''Zikora'' (2020) and '' Notes on Grief'' (2021). In 2008, she was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. She was the recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize in 2018. She was recognized as one of the BBC's 100 women of 2021. Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwige-Renée Dro
Edwige-Renée Dro (born 1980s) is a writer, translator and literary activist from Côte d'Ivoire. She is co-founder of the literature collective Abidjan Lit. Career In 2014 Edwige-Renée Dro was named as one of those chosen for the Africa39 project intended to showcase 39 promising young African writers under the age of 40, and was included in the anthology ''Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara'' (edited by Ellah Allfrey, 2014). She was a PEN International New Voices award judge, and was also on the judging panel of the Etisalat Prize for Literature in 2016. About the literature collective that she co-founded in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, she has said: "Whatever Abidjan Lit is, it wants to put books at the centre of lives and at the heart of cities, cities in Côte d’Ivoire but also cities throughout the black world." Other literary ventures with which she has been involved include Jalada and Writivism. She was awarded a Morland Writing Scholarship in 2018. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadreck Chikoti
Shadreck Chikoti (born 7 October 1979) is a Malawian writer and social activist. Chikoti writes in both English and Chichewa. His published works include ''Free Africa Flee!'' (2001) and ''Mwana wa Kamuzu'' (''The Son of Kamuzu'') (2010). His short story “The Beggar Girl” was included in the anthology ''Modern Stories from Malawi'' (2003), edited by Sambalikagwa Mvona. “The Baobab Tree,” for which he won third prize in the 2008 FMB/MAWU Literary Awards, was published in ''The Bachelor of Chikanda: And Other Stories'' (2009). Chikoti has received national and international recognition for his writing. In 2001, he received the Peer Gynt Literary Award for his short story, “The Trap.” In 2011, Chikoti was selected to attend the Caine Prize African Writers’ Workshop in Cameroon, and the story he wrote while there, “Child of a Hyena,” was published in the Caine Prize 2011 anthology, To See the Mountain and other Stories'. Chikoti won the 2013 Peer Gynt Literary Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Busby
Margaret Yvonne Busby, , Hon. FRSL (born 1944), also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, resident in the UK. She was Britain's youngest and first black female book publisherJazzmine Breary"Let's not forget" in ''Writing the Future: Black and Asian Writers and Publishers in the UK Market Place'', Spread the Word, April 2013, p. 30. when she and Clive Allison (1944–2011) co-founded Margaret Busby"Clive Allison obituary" ''The Guardian'', 3 August 2011. the London-based publishing house Allison and Busby (A & B) in the 1960s. She edited the anthology ''Daughters of Africa'' (1992), and its 2019 follow-up ''New Daughters of Africa''. She is a recipient of the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature.Natasha Onwuemezi"Busby to compile anthology of African women writers" ''The Bookseller'', 15 December 2017. In 2020 she was voted one of the "100 Great Black Britons". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elechi Amadi
Elechi Amadi (12 May 1934 – 29 June 2016) was a Nigerian author and soldier. He was a former member of the Nigerian Armed Forces. He was an author of plays and novels that are generally about African village life, customs, beliefs, and religious practices prior to contact with the Western world. Amadi is best regarded for his 1966 debut novel, '' The Concubine'', which has been called "an outstanding work of pure fiction". Early life and education Born in 1934, in Mbodo-Aluu in what is now the Ikwerre local government area of Rivers State, Nigeria, Elechi Amadi attended Government College, Umuahia (1948–52), Survey School, Oyo (1953–54), and the University of Ibadan (1955–59), where he obtained a degree in Physics and Mathematics. While in university, he adopted the name Elechi Amadi, which he felt reflected his Ikwerre heritage more than his birth name, Emmanuel Elechi Daniel. Career He worked for a time as a land surveyor and later was a teacher at several schools, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellah Allfrey
Ellah Wakatama, OBE, Hon. FRSL (born 16 September 1966), is Editor-at-Large at Canongate Books, a senior Research Fellow at Manchester University and Chair of the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing. She was the founding Publishing Director of the Indigo Press. A London-based editor and critic, she was on the judging panel of the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award and the 2015 Man Booker Prize. In 2016, she was Visiting Professor & Global Intercultural Scholar at Goshen College, Indiana, and was Guest Master for the 2016 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Foundation international journalism fellowship in Cartagena, Colombia. The former deputy editor of ''Granta'' magazine, she was senior editor at Jonathan Cape, Random House and assistant editor at Penguin. She is series editor of the ''Kwani?'' Manuscript Project and the editor of the anthologies '' Africa39'' (Bloomsbury, 2014) and ''Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction'' ( Dundurn/ Cassava Republic). Her jour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rotimi Babatunde
Rotimi Babatunde is a Nigerian writer and playwright. Biography and education Rotimi Babatunde was born in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria, where he attended St. Joseph's Nursery and Primary School before going on to secondary education at the Federal Government College, Odogbolu, and subsequently to Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Rotimi Babatunde lives in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Works His published work includes poems and stories in anthologies, including ''Little Drops'', ''A Volcano of Voices'' and ''Die Aussenseite des Elementes''. Babatunde's plays have been presented at institutions such as London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Swedish National Touring Theatre and the Halcyon Theatre, Chicago, as well as being broadcast on the BBC World Service. His other works includes: *''An Infidel In The Upper Room'', Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, London (reading), 2006. *''The Bonfire of the Innocents'' (Elddopet), Riksteatern, Stockholm, 2008. *''A Shroud For L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beirut39
Beirut39 is a collaborative project between the Hay Festival, Beirut UNESCO's World Book Capital 2009 celebrations, ''Banipal'' magazine and the British Council among others in order to identify 39 of the most promising Arab writers under the age of 39. The project was carried out during 2009-10 and followed on the success of Bogotá39, an earlier contest held in 2007 to identify the most promising young Latin American writers. In connection with Port Harcourt being World Book Capital 2014, Africa39 was launched by Hay Festival, featuring 39 writers under the age of 40 from sub-Saharan Africa. Beirut39's requirements for eligibity stipulated that the author be born in or after 1970, be of Arab heritage and have at least one publication. The judges for the contest included Egyptian literary critic Gaber Asfour, Lebanese poet and journalist Abdo Wazen, Lebanese writer Alawiya Sobh and Omani poet and journalist Saif Al Rahbi. The project resulted in a literary anthology called ''Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
