View a Webcast of this Program, November 16, 2011 This archive should prove invaluable to students of African literature and stimulate a broader appreciation of the African literary tradition and heritage. Arimah was born in the UK and grew up in Nigeria and wherever else her father was stationed for work. View a Webcast of this Program. Somalia Sallah's writings have received accolades from critics. His works are inspired by the social injustices in his country. Wright was born in Johannesburg, South Africa 23 February 1920 of normal hearing. Her stories have been honored with a National Magazine Award, a Commonwealth Short Story Prize and an O. Henry Award. He is known for his book, The Good Doctor which explores political tensions and other happenings in a hospital setting. He is the author of Arrows of Rain and Foreign Gods, Inc., both critically acclaimed novels. View a Webcast of this Program, April 2, 2013 April 12, 2017 Helon Habila He is a great writer and clearly deserves a mention in the top ten. Under the Udala Trees is her first novel. He openly criticizes the state of South African society and further discusses the sexual and religious topics in a very open way. Krog translated Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, works by Henk van Woerden and Tom Lanoye, as well as a selection of South African verse written in the indigenous African languages into Afrikaans. Anna Mwalagho Sissay was the official poet of the 2012 London Olympics. It is with good reason that he was awarded Africaâs most esteemed literary accolade, the Noma Award in 1984. Ngugi wa Thiongo Zainab Hassan Keorapetse Kgositsile His works have been translated into 94 languages. An assistant professor of English at Cornell University he is the author of Conversing with Africa: Politics of Change and Hurling Words at Consciousness. Maaza Mengiste is a novelist and essayist whose work examines the individual lives at stake during migration, war, and exile, and considers the intersections of photography and violence. She is the author of several novels, plays, short stories, and children’s books. She is famously known for her books Country of my Skull and A Change of Tongue. Described as one of Africa's most important poets of the post-Soyinka, and Achebe generation, Sallah writes poems that are evocatively simple and rich. There are so many amazing writers coming out of South Africa, and Imraan Coovadia is one of the most daring; his Green-Eyed Thieves is a wicked and weird riff on the crime novel, and from what I’ve heard, Tales of the Metric System will be equally memorable. wishes South African poetry to be even more confrontational. Mosaic magazine named Foreign Gods, Inc. one of the 10 best books of 2014. Even before turning 30, Nomazo Mbatha already earned herself a net worth of $3 million. Kenya Morning Session Webcast South African Sonnets. Cote d'Ivoire on Poetry and Pan-Africanism. In 1980, Sallah published his first poetry collection, When African Was a Young Woman, under the Writers Workshop publication series. In 2019, she was awarded a Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress. Susan Nalugwa Kiguli He is the son of world-renowned African writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Mazrui came up with the idea of a list of Africa's 100 best books in order to direct the world's attention on the achievements of African writers who have had their work published during the 20th century. South Africa Folarin’s first novel, A Particular Kind of Black Man, was released in 2019. Zambia In his writing, he has clearly pointed out the problems facing his country through the symbolic characters. His poetry, novels and short stories are indeed unique works of literature. Kadija Sesay He was awarded the 2019 PEN Pinter Prize. Tope Folarin She was educated in the United States after moving with her family when she was nine. He has been chancellor of the University of Manchester since 2015, and joined the Foundling Museum's board of trustees two years later, having previously been appointed one of the museum's fellows. View a Webcast of this Program, March 20, 2014 Her short story "The Sack " garnered her the coveted literary prize. She is also the Manager of Inscribe publications for Inscribe, a writer development program housed by Peepal Tree Press, and will be editing a collection of short stories set in Africa for Comma Press. November 7, 2012 His further research is devoted to genres of African oral literature, heroic tales, epic and initiation, and their influence on the modern novel. Her novella The Dream Chasers was highly commended in the Commonwealth Book Prize 2012. This writer effectively depicts in his works just how far apartheid would go. Shenaz Patel He is considered a vanguard in the primary use of African languages in literature. Born and bred in South Africa, this great South African writer is known for her great works in books like Zoo City, The Shining Girls and other literary works. She studied at the University of Abidjan, the Sorbonne in Paris, as well as Howard University. The first fictional works to emerge from South Africa were produced by colonial writers whose attitude to indigenous South Africans was, at best, ambivalent, if not outright hostile. Noted as a perennial favorite to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Ngugi wa Thiongo is an award-winning, world-renowned Kenyan novelist, scholar and playwright, who has been publishing written works for over 50 years. Kgositsile lived in exile in the United States from 1962 until 1975, the peak of his literary career. View a Webcast of this Program, June 10, 2014 Miriam Tlali. However, South African literature has subsequently taken a path similar to that followed by post-colonial authors in African states that gained their independence in the 1960s. Her works mostly speak about the struggles and politics of the country and are interesting to read. Lists books, journal articles, chapters in books, has a photograph of the author, covers of his books. Our own shadows disappear as … Commemoration of the 40,000 women and children who, August 9, 1956, presented themselves in bodily protest against the “dompass” in the capital of apartheid. Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, her critically acclaimed debut novel, was selected by The Guardian as one of the 10 best contemporary African books and was named one of the best books of 2010 by The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, and other publications. He served in the African National Congress in the 1960s and 1970s and was inaugurated as South Africa's National Poet Laureate in 2006. He is also a columnist for BBC Focus on Africa magazine and former co-editor of Pambazuka. Mukoma wa Ngugi was born in 1971 in Evanston, Ill., but raised in Kenya, before returning to the United States for his university education. As a journalist, historian, and novelist, he has published for more than 40 years in various media outlets such as ABC, Informaciones, Diario 16 y El País (Madrid) and La Vanguardia (Barcelona). She founded SABLE LitMag which was published for 15 years and featured internationally renowned writers on the covers including, Nawal el Saadawi, Sonia Sanchez, Chinua Achebe and Walter Mosley. Evening Program Webcast. This 1919 born writer is known as one of the most prolific South African writers / authors and his works depict the racial practices done is South Africa against the South African blacks. e Breyten Breytenbach (/ ˈbreɪtɛn ˈbʌx /; born 16 September 1939) is a South African writer and painter known for his opposition to apartheid, and consequent imprisonment … He was named in the Hay Festival Africa39 list of “the most promising writers under the age of 40 who will define future trends in African writing.”. Patel writes in both French and Mauritian Creole. Mandlakayise C. Matyumza From 1948 to 1990, poetry flourished in spite of violent oppression and censorship in apartheid South Africa. Chinelo Okparanta is novelist and short-story writer. Waberi champions using indigenous art forms, such as the Somali poetic tradition, especially highlighting writing in African languages. Ali Mazrui was an academic and political writer on African and Islamic studies and North-South relations. Following those programs, the Library of Congress became an integral part of annual Caine Prize for African Literature winners’ residency at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University. Djibouti Many authors in South Africa often express the things people are afraid to say, taking to writing books, poetry and plays in the midst of the political confusion and social instability. Submit: poetry, short stories, flash fiction, essays and reviews The Single Story Foundation It was reviewed on the BBC by Florence Akst and received also several other favorable reviews. Damon Galgut is one writer who has drawn inspiration from his difficult predicament. February 3, 2015 He also won the BBC African Performance Prize and was the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Fellow in 2013. This was followed by a reworking of narratives in the extinct language /Xam into Afrikaans poems in "Die Sterre Se 'tsau'" and English poems in "The Stars Say." Kgositsile was one of the first to bridge the gap between African poetry and African-American poetry. She has won awards such as the Arthur C. Clarke award , M-Net literary award, World fantasy award and many more. She was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, where she was raised until the age of 10, when she immigrated to the United States with her family. Mazrui compiled Africa’s Best 100 Books of the Twentieth Century project. Having been diagnosed with cancer when he was aged six, he bases his literary works on this difficult period of his life. Galgutâs writing style is truly unique because of his use of an unreliable narrator which actually makes an interesting read. Some of the best South African writers are outlined below; these are the 10 who have gained prominence over all the others both at home and outside the country. View a Webcast of this Program. Koné's field of research and teaching extends from the oral literature of Africa to its modern written literature, and he has won international recognition as an author, essayist and playwright. Ali A. Mazrui Lesley Nneka Arimah Omekongo Dibinga is a motivational speaker, trilingual poet, TV talk show host, rapper, and professor of cross-cultural communication at American University. This is one white South African writer who is known for his candidness in his literary works as he condemns the actions of Nelson Mandelaâs successors in the ANC. November 3, 2008 Authors include both established and highly talented new and emerging writers. November 9, 2012 His writing style is gripping and one wouldn’t fail to notice the way he depicts the problems facing the nation. View a Webcast of this Program, April 3, 2012 This is especially true of the writers of adventure-type stories, in which colonial heroes are romanticised and the role of black South Africans was reduced to that of enemy or servant. South African He studied Literature at the University of Jos and lectured for three years at the Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, before going to Lagos to write for Hints Magazine. Mqombothi read from his prize-winning short story "Memories We Lost." In the new issue of The White Review, an excellent interview with Marlene Van Niekerk, "the foremost Afrikaans writer of her generation." Readings recorded in this series feature these authors’ written works, the genres of which range from fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, to literary criticism. However, out of the many talented writers, some have distinguished themselves through works that have amazed everyone and left the entire world in awe of their uniqueness. Serpell ‘s first novel, The Old Drift won the 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book prize for fiction. September 28, 2017 Donato Ndongo is a prominent writer and journalist from the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. Progeny of Air was the winner of the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection in the UK. Lidudumalingani Mqombothi is the recipient of the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing. From 1977 to 1990, he taught literature in his country at the University Nationale de Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan in the Department of Modern Languages. Al-Fadil, won the coveted prize for his short story titled “The Story of the Girl Whose Birds Flew Away.” Characterized by experimentation and daring artistic adventures, al-Fadil also won the 2012 Al Tayeb Salih Prize. November 14, 2013 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, published in 1958, was followed by sequels No Longer at Ease in 1960and Arrow of God in 1964. This anthology is the ultimate overview of South African poetry, reaching from its earliest manifestations in the oral culture of the land’s indigenous inhabitants to the complexities of post-apartheid verse. Sudan He passed away in January 2018. The book was nominated for the Nigerian Writers Award (Young Motivational Writer of the Year), longlisted for the 2013 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. When he was 7 years old he contracted… November 18, 2016 He... Dineo Moeketsi, popularly known as Dineo Langa, has come a long way in the South African entertainment and media industry. She was an IWP (International Writing Program) Honorary Fellow in the U.S. in 2016, and was a fellow at the W. E. B. Amadou Koné Also in 2002, he moved to England to become a Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Some of these authors have given way to the hip, misunderstood, radical and frustrated authors of today. June Jordan - 1936-2002. Van Wyk is famous for his poem "In Detention" on the suspicious deaths that befell South African political prisoners during Apartheid. Nigeria May 1, 2012 The Gambia View a Webcast of this Program, March 14, 2016 View a Webcast of this Program. Namwali Serpell is the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing. Born in South Africa in 1923, Nadine has inspired many through her literary works, and the Nobel Prize she was awarded… Sierra Leone/United Kingdom Keorapetse Kgositsile also known as "Bra Willie," was a South African political activist and poet. South Africa is a land of diverse cultures and exceptional natural beauty – vibrant with a range of fauna and flora that is well known around the world. Véronique Tadjo is a journalist, painter and award-winning author of numerous volumes of fiction, poetry and children's literature. Tadjo's work includes A Vol d'Oiseau/As the Crow Flies, Reine Pokou/Queen Pokou which was awarded the Le Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique Noire in 2005, Le Royaumme Aveugle/The Blind Kingdom, L'Ombre D'Imana/In the Shadow of Imana, and Loin de Mon Pere/Far from My Father. She teaches creative writing to young girls at her alma mater in Nairobi, and is currently working on her first full-length novel. Presented at The United Nations, August 9, 1978. Donato Ndongo Born in South Africa in 1923, Nadine has inspired many through her literary works, and the Nobel Prize she was awarded in 1992 further shows how much her writing is valued. It is not by accident that Scandal is one of the most successful and among the most followed TV shows in Mzansi. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar. His first volume of stories, The Land without Shadows, won Belgium's Royal Academy of French Language and Black Africa's Grand Literary Prize for French speakers. View a Webcast of this Program. Helon Habila read excerpts from his novel Oil On Water and discussed his anthology The Granta Book of the African Short Story. Ethiopia Such a spectacular run did not replicate... Themba Zwane might have been in the PSL for close to a decade, but he fully registered his name in the league with many... Nomzamo Mbatha has had a very successful stay in the South Africa movie industry and is currently breaking ground in Hollywood. NEARLY all the South African poets have, with varying success, experimented with that exquisite yet severe mode of poetic expression--the Sonnet. Kenya His literary works depict the life of a white person in an apartheid South Africa. Okwiri Oduor Tadjo is professor and head of the French department at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. Democratic Republic of the Congo/United States Kiguli has been an advocate for creative writing in Africa, including service as a founding member of FEMWRITE, a collective of Ugandan women writers, a judge for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (African Region, 1999), and an advisory board member for the African Writers’ Trust. Poet and writer, Krog has won major awards in poetry, journalism, fiction, and translation. He has written a number of books and plays. Veronique Tadjo Born in Canada, croc E moses has spent more than half of his life in Swaziland and South Africa and refers to himself as a ‘global African’. It calls itself simply “a magazine of writing”, believing in the pursuit of “damn fine writing” and a “means to put it in its place”. This is a list of South African women writers, ... Judy Croome (born 1958), novelist, short story writer and poet; Sheila Cussons (1922 – 2004), Afrikaans poet; D. Alide Dasnois (born 1950), journalist and newspaper editor; Nadia Davids (born 1977) Marike de Klerk (1937 – 2001) Her work has been translated into English, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Serbian. The representation of euphoria has quickly been replaced by a feeling of disillusionment as the … Uganda Afternoon Session Webcast He was active in the music scene, known for his readings in New York City jazz clubs. She was selected for the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 and her debut collection, What It Means When A Man Fall From The Sky, won the 2017 Kirkus Prize, the 2017 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and was selected for the New York Times/PBS book club among other honors. She has won numerous national awards in her native Kenya and here in the United States. Included here are poems from Sonnets of South Africa (1911), edited by E. H. Crouch (his preface follows). Arimah is a 2019 United States Artists Fellow in Writing. There are many more awe-inspiring South African writers, but the above ones really deserve to be on the top ten list. The Qwabe twins have continued to find fame within and outside the South African music industry following their spectacular outing in season 15 of... Bokang Montjane is not your regular kind of woman. Nigeria/United States His most famous novel Mine Boy clearly depicts the oppressive culture of a South African industrial city. At What Age Did Dineo Moeketsi Become a Millionaire and How Much Is She Worth. Poet and writer, Al-Fadil is the winner of the 2017 Caine Prize for African Writing. She gets her inspiration from world-renowned writers such as Dostoevsky and Chekhov. Côte d'Ivoire She graduated from the MFA Creative Writing program at New York University. Lidudumalingani Mqombothi He discussed the state of contemporary African culture and post-independence literary production. Mauritius He served in the African National Congress in the 1960s and 1970s and was inaugurated as South Africa's National Poet Laureate in 2006. Kgositsile lived in exile in the United States from 1962 until 1975, the peak of his literary career. It was also a finalist for the 2014 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award as well as the Etisalat Prize for Literature. Antjie Krog Home » A poem about South Africa … The New Century of South African Poetry Edited by Michael Chapman. View a Webcast of this Program. Poetry. Mandlakayise C. Matyumza is the executive director of the Centre for the Book, a unit of the National Library of South Africa in Capetown. Abdourahman Waberi is a novelist, essayist, poet, and short-story writer. His first book, a collection of short stories entitled From Caves of Rotten Teeth, was published in 2005 and reissued in 2008. One such writer, His Urban Music Award winning work has best been described by Nikki Giovanni as “outstanding, exciting, and new while being very old.” His book, From the Limbs of My Poetree, was described by Essence Magazine as “a remarkable and insightful collection of exquisite poetry that touches sacred places within your spirit.” He was one of 5 international recipients out of 750,000 to win the first ever “CNN iReport Spirit Award.” He has received over 1,000,000 views on CNN.com. South Africa Keorapetse Kgositsile also known as "Bra Willie," was a South African political activist and poet. View a Webcast of this Program. The series offers interviews with African writers, from the continent and the diaspora, committed to the literature of continental and diasporic Africa. Carapace is edited by another giant of South African literature, Gus Ferguson. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University in 2018. Visit the Upcoming Events page for announcements of new programs, February 22, 2020 Some of his most known works are Waiting for the Barbarians, Disgrace and many others. It really doesn't matter if your target is to have a large company or a small business; the South African law makes it very... Andile Jali has enjoyed a good run in his career since he made his break in 2007. Bassey Ikpi is a spoken word poet, writer, and mental health advocate born in Nigeria … In Kenya she performed on stage as well as on television and radio with the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation. George edited several important anthologies by writers of African and Asian descent including Burning Words, Flaming Images (1996); IC3: the Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain (2000), co-edited with Courttia Newland; and Write Black, Write British (2005). When he was 7 years old he contracted… The series aims at contributing to greater cross-cultural understanding and dialogue. Nigeria/United States Born in Ga-Rankuwa, Pretoria, on the 28th day of January 1962, the business mogul is... Simmy is an EDM (electronic dance music) and neo-soul singer, who took the giant step into the limelight a couple of years ago. Africa is rich in literature and poetry, and here’s a list of contemporary African poets that you should … Lets start from number 10. Shenaz Patel is a journalist from the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius, where she segued into an author of fiction. September 25, 2013 Maaza Mengiste Barrett was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and lives in Lagos. The Drum writers and associated poets of the 1950s – including such names as as Peter Clark, James Matthews and Richard Rive – reflected a new generation of black authors depicting a pulsating urban black culture for the first time. Tope Folarin is the winner of the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing. This 2003 Nobel prize winner is also one internationally renowned writer from South Africa. His crime fiction novels Nairobi Heat and Black Star Nairobi are set in the capital city of the East African nation. He further depicts the state of poverty in the Cape Town townships and other post-apartheid problems through his writing. His second collection of stories, Love Is Power, or Something Like That, was published in 2013. Wright was born in Johannesburg, South Africa 23 February 1920 of normal hearing. View a Webcast of this Program, May 4, 2017 African Writers Trust is delighted to announce a new partnership with The International Writing Program, The University of IOWA. Equatorial Guinea Chinelo Okparanta The full text was published as a novel in the UK under the title Waiting for an Angel in 2002 and received a Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region, Best First Book) in 2003. He is a winner of the 2005 BBC World Service short story competition, the recipient of a Chinua Achebe Center Fellowship, a Norman Mailer Center Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. He was born in Yola, Nigeria. croc E moses also hosts workshops in South African schools as part of an outreach program, … He studied African-American literature and culture extensively, becoming particularly interested in jazz. Her career success... Andile Ernest Jali is one of the most celebrated Mamelodi Sundowns F.C players. South Africa is one of the most economically stable countries in Africa and its education sector has contributed a lot towards the growth. Nigeria South African literature, the body of writings in either Afrikaans or English produced in what is now the Republic of South Africa.The rest of African literature is treated in African literature.. South Africa was colonized by Europeans against the resistance of Africans and was for some time afterward a battlefield between Briton and Boer. Kenya He appears in a program co-sponsored by the Library, the Africa Society for the National Summit on Africa and Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain. At the African Writers Trust, our mission is to connect African writers in the Diaspora for a mutual sharing of skills and resources. Her books for children include Mamy Wata and the Monster. I believe for consistently high-quality poetry Carapace is unrivalled in South Africa. Ngugi is the founder and editor of the first Gikuyu-language journal and is currently a distinguished professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. March 14, 2019 November 4, 2016 The series hosted the 2013 and 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing winners. Amadou Koné is a professor in the Department of French at Georgetown University. Omekongo Dibinga Formerly a journalist, Ibrahim’s debut short story collection, The Whispering Trees,was long-listed for the Elisalat Prize for Literature in 2014, with the title story short-listed for the Caine Prize for African Writing. Until his death in 2014, he was the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York. Things Fall Apart is the most widely read book in modern African literature. Perhaps of all the arguments which occur between the liberal and the black aesthetics, the most widespread and interesting is the debate over language. Helon Habila is a poet and prose fiction writer. Known for his books, Kafkaâs Curse and Bitter Fruit, Achmat was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Having been exiled to France because of a mixed race marriage, one can clearly see his understanding of apartheid thanks to his personal experience. Zainab Hassan was the project director of the National Library Initiative of the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies in Mogadishu, Somalia. South African Kenya Editors Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani sought out recommendations from poets and literary professionals working around the world, eventually settling on 11 authors. The late Christopher van Wyk, famous for his poignant Apartheid poem “In Detention,” wrote children’s books, poems and… View a Webcast of this Program, December 3, 2013 Lesley Nneka Arimah is the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing winner. Onjerika began writing at age 15, and went on to study fiction at Amherst College. View a Webcast of this Program, August 13, 2019 Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Bazaar, GRANTA and has received support from The Elizabeth George Foundation and MacDowell. September 25, 2012 He is also the author of a memoir, Never Look an American in the Eye: Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American, and co-editor of Writers Writing on Conflicts and Wars in Africa, The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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