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Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship
The Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship, also called the Morland Writing Scholarships or the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship is an annual financial scholarship awarded to four to six African writers to enable them write a fiction or non-fiction book in the English language. Character and value The grant is between £18,000 and £27,000 (fiction or nonfiction respectively), given over twelve to eighteen months to each chosen writer. The only requirements are that the writer submit 10,000 words every month and, if they ever get a book contract out of their writing output, donate 20% back to the foundation. The award was established in 2013 by Miles Morland, a British citizen and philanthropist, through the Miles Morland Foundation (MMF), a UK registered charity which makes grants in areas reflecting its founder's interests. It is one of the most prestigious writing scholarships on the African continent. It is currently judged by three writers and publishers: Muthoni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassava Republic Press
Cassava Republic Press is a steering African book publishing company established in Nigeria in 2006 and headed by Bibi Bakare-Yusuf,"About Us" Cassava Republic website. with a focus on affordability, the need to find and develop local talent, and to publish African writers too often celebrated only in Europe and America. Cassava Republic's stated mission is "to change the way we all think about African writing. ...to build a new body of African writing that links writers across different times and spaces." The publishing house is considered to be "at the centre of a thriving literary scene" that has seen Nigerian writers in particular, as well as writers from elsewhere on the African continent, having considerable success both at home and internationally. '' |
Alemseged Tesfai
Alemseged is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Zeresenay Alemseged (born 1969), Ethiopian paleoanthropologist *Alemseged Assefa, Ethiopian banker *Alemseged Efrem Alemseged Efrem (born 19 November 1970) is an Eritrean football coach who is in charge of the Eritrea national football team as of 2015. Eritrea Despite being intransigent that his team were going to win opposing Botswana Botswana (, ) ... (born 1970), Eritrean football coach {{Given name, type=both African given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiction Awards
Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary, or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional portrayals are thus inconsistent with history, fact, or plausibility. In a traditional narrow sense, "fiction" refers to written narratives in prose often referring specifically to novels, novellas, and short stories. More broadly, however, fiction encompasses imaginary narratives expressed in any medium, including not just writings but also live theatrical performances, films, television programs, radio dramas, comics, role-playing games, and video games. Definition Typically, the fictionality of a work is publicly marketed and so the audience expects the work to deviate in some ways from the real world rather than presenting, for instance, only factually accurate portrayals or characters who are actual people. Because fiction is generally understood to not fully adhere to the real world, the themes and context of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Literary Awards
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scholarships
A scholarship is a form of financial aid awarded to students for further education. Generally, scholarships are awarded based on a set of criteria such as academic merit, diversity and inclusion, athletic skill, and financial need. Scholarship criteria usually reflect the values and goals of the donor of the award, and while scholarship recipients are not required to repay scholarships, the awards may require that the recipient continue to meet certain requirements during their period of support, such maintaining a minimum grade point average or engaging in a certain activity (e.g., playing on a school sports team for athletic scholarship holders). Scholarships also range in generosity; some range from covering partial tuition ranging all the way to a 'full-ride', covering all tuition, accommodation, housing and others. Some prestigious, highly competitive scholarships are well-known even outside the academic community, such as Fulbright Scholarship and the Rhodes Scholarsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Do Not Say It's Not Your Country
''Do Not Say It's Not Your Country'' is a collection of twelve short stories by Nigerian author Nnamdi Oguike and published by Griots Lounge in 2019. The collection contains twelve stories, each set in a different African country. It has been compared favourably to Uwem Akpan's ''Say You're One of Them'' by '' Brittle Paper''. In 2019, it won the Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship The Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship, also called the Morland Writing Scholarships or the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship is an annual financial scholarship awarded to four to six African writers to enable them write a fiction or no .... References 2019 short story collections Nigerian short story collections {{Nigeria-lit-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawa Jande Golakai
Hawa Jande Golakai (born June 1, 1979) is a Liberian writer and clinical scientist. 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).Carpenter, Caroline"Africa39 list of promising writers revealed" ''The Bookseller'', 8 April 2014. Early life Golakai was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and lived in Liberia during her childhood. She fled the country as a refugee during the First Liberian Civil War. After moving, she lived in Cape Town, South Africa, and pursued a medical career. Education Golakai received a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Cape Town in 2005, specializing in cell and molecular biology. She wrote her Master of Science dissertation at Stellenbosch University in 2008. Career Immunology Upon graduating from Stellenbosch University, Golakai began working at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu (born 1977) is a Zimbabwe-born novelist and filmmaker. Background She was born and partly grew up in the city of Bulawayo. A few months after she was born, Ndlovu's family moved to Sweden as political refugees, and this is where she spent the formative years of her life. The family then moved to the United States, and returned to Zimbabwe after 1980 when the country had attained its independence. She attended Girls College and thereafter went to the US to pursue her university studies in Boston, Massachusetts (Emerson College); Athens, Ohio ( Ohio University) and Palo Alto, California (Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...). She spent 18 years in the US, before she decided to move back to Africa where she lived between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kola Tubosun
Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún is a Nigerian linguist, writer, translator, scholar, and cultural activist."Writing a New Nigeria: Ideas of Identity" , , His work and influence span the fields of education, language technology, literature, journalism, and linguistics. He is the recipient of the 2016 "Special Prize" for Writings in the Mother Tongue. (Ostana Premio Scritture in Lingua Madre) for his work in language advocacy. He writes in [...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] |
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