Ghana to host 2014 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa
The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa was established by The Lumina Foundation in 2005. The prize honors Africa’s great writers bringing recognition to their work. They also make books available and affordable by subsidizing the publication of books in their top list.
Warsame Shire Awale killed
Warsame Shire Awale was gunned down by unknown assailants near his home on Monday evening.
Warsame had received death threats because of his work and songs calling for people to join the police, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists.
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Warsan Shire shares powerful prose
Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-Somali who has quite a way with words. She is fierce; she is talented; she is a creative wordsmith.
Warsan Shire
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Pisho Pencil inspires children to read
Jamati: Give us a little bit of background on you.
My full name is Vaishnavi Ram Mohan, but everyone calls me Vaish. I was born in May 1994 and I’m a junior-year student at United States International University in Nairobi. I’m a psychology major and an aspiring author. Aside from writing, I play chess and I love reading novels and traveling.
The Incredible Adventures of Pisho Pencil
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Munaluchi Bridal “Bible” Magazine Spring/Summer 2011 issue in-stores January 25th!
Coming at a Barnes and Noble’s and Border”s near you is the Spring/Summer 2011 issue of Munaluchi Bridal Magazine, featuring MTV’s Lala Vazquez gracing the cover in her stunning Vera Wang wedding gown. In this newest issue, Munaluchi magazine will take you into a journey of real wedding’s including Lala’s star studded wedding.
For those who are in the dark about the Magazine, Munaluchi bridal magazine is Africa’s brain child that is built on how to improve the options for the bride of color, by offering much needed opportunities to easily source wedding information in quest of their dream wedding.
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Munaluchi Bridal Magazine- The modern bridal bible, for the bride of color
Recently I had the pleasure of meeting Eronmwon Balogun the creative director of “Munaluchi Bridal Magazine“, “a publication built on how to improve/enhance the options for the bride of color. “Munaluchi Bridal” is the modern face of the African/Caribbean brides. The representation of the brides is perfectly executed, and it shares with its readers opportunities to successfully source wedding information including banquet halls, photographers, wedding gowns , invitation cards, e.t.c.
This magazine is a true prime source for all brides of color who are looking for top notch wedding vendors. One of the big points about this magazine, is how they impressively and tastefully showcase both the western and traditional parts of the wedding, redefining the face and style of the bride of color.
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Introducing ‘Through the Gates of Thought’
Deep thinker, Nana Awere Damoah is fast becoming a prolific writer in the area of his peculiar style of writing. His stimulating brand new book, “Through the Gates of Thought” is an eclectic collection of stories, articles, poems, which touch various aspects of everyday life.
Gates of Thought cover
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Beneath the Lion’s Gaze by Maaza Mengiste
Beneath the Lion’s Gaze is a novel by Maaza Mengiste an Addis Ababa, Ethiopian born author with an MFA in creative writing from New York University.
This novel is about “an epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopians revolution”. “It tells a gripping story of family, of the bonds of love and friendship set in a time and place that has rarely been explored in fiction before. It is a story about the lengths human beings will go in pursuit of freedom and the human price of a national revolution. Emotionally gripping, poetic and indelibly tragic.
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‘New American Table’ by Marcus Samuelsson
Ethiopian-born and Swedish-raised reknowned chef Kassahun Tsegie, better known as Marcus Samuelsson, is the co-owner of Aquavit and C-House restaurant and the youngest chef ever to receive a three-star restaurant review from The New York Times. Chef Marcus is at it again, promoting his new book titled ‘New American Table‘, a bridging gap between a cook book and a travelougue that celebrates the ethnic influences on the American ways of eating. The book is infused with 300 different types of meals that be enjoyed during breakfast, brunch, lunch and dinner.
How Not to Write About Africa, by Binyavanga Wainaina :Narrated by Djimon Hounsou
“How not to write about Africa” is a satire piece by Kenyan born and raised and New York-based author and an award-winning journalist, Binyavanga Wainaina. Binyavanga is currently a Bard Fellow and Director at the Chinua Achebe Center for African Literature and Languages in Bard College.
Oprah picks Uwem Akpan’s “Say You’re One of Them” as her 63rd book club selection
History has been made as the number one most influential woman, Ms. Oprah Winfrey selected “Say You’re One of Them” by Nigerian native Awem Akpan as the 63rd book to make it into her book club collection. You’re probably wondering where in all this the history making is that but ever since Oprah started her book club collection, she has never selected a collection of short stories before which is what “Say You’re One of Them” is all about. A collection of five stories set in different parts of Africa including Nigeria and Rwanda, which tells a tale about the journey’s of African children ‘s hardship and the bitter sweet occurrences of having to grow up in Africa.
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