Joyfully encouraging you to critically engage with classic and contemporary (African) literatures🎙 Books & Rhymes: The Podcast - where books & music dialogue.
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Brittle Paper’s Children’s Anthology is out now, and FREE to download!
19 delightful stories by writers from across Africa 🇨🇲🇬🇭🇿🇦🇳🇬🇿🇼🇲🇼🇸🇱🇹🇿🇳🇦🇰🇪
Perfect for your little ones.
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I’m giving away 2 FREE tickets to @BalletBlack’s incredible tribute to Nina Simone tomorrow at @YorkTheatre. Saw them at Stratford in May & they were awe-mazing. Booked ticket to see them again, but enemies of progress won’t let me prosper. DM if you want. yorktheatreroyal.co.uk/show/…
Sawad Hussain stay doing the work. Check out this forthcoming title she co-yea slated with @arablit 🔥🔥🔥
Had the pleasure of spending the evening listening to an utterly illuminating conversation between @EkowEshun & @MarlonJames5 in celebration of the launch of #MoonWitchSpiderKing at the @southbankcentre 🙌🏾
Still can’t believe I was able to find a first edition copy of this extremely rare ‘Festac Anthology of Nigerian Writing’, edited by Cyprian Ekwensi. 😱😱
Won’t He do it! 💃🏾💃🏾
Huge congratulations, Nana. The US edition is GORGEOUS!!
I’m legging it to online shops to get my copy in addition to my UK edition.
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Ohhhh… @bulaqbooks tote is calling out to me. Who am I to refuse?
You can support BULAQ by subscribing, rating, sharing, & also with a small purchase at the @arablit RedBubble shop:
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Last night’s live recording of da poddy was a dream!
Huge thanks @MukomaWaNgugi for the generous dose of laughter, unforgettable stories, and music…
@CassavaRepublic for consistently feeding our imagination with rich texts…
& @LibreriaLondon for a stellar venue.
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Excited to announce that tonight’s live show with Mukoma wa Ngügi is sold out 💥🔥
Our audience are in for a sonically immersive experience of @MukomaWaNgugi’s latest novel, Unbury Our Dead With Song, which I highly recommend you purchase.
Listen to @elnathan_john’s narration of the audiobook edition of @MukomaWaNgugi’s novel Unbury Our Dead with Song.
Also: join me tomorrow, Friday 19th of Nov in conversation with Mukoma.
Details here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-live-po…
Check out Mukoma wa Ngugi's audiobook Unbury Our Dead With Song, which I narrated:
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We are pleased to present to you the Prize’s Audio Collection, available here: caineprize.com/media-1
It includes recordings from podcasts with previously shortlisted authors, judges & with the Chair of the Prize, along with links to stories when available.
Enjoy🔊🌟📖
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Curious about what goes on behind the scenes of a literary translation? Then why not attend this workshop with @RuthAhmedzai Try your hand at translating passages from the original German into English and talk with Kemp about her work! ucl.ac.uk/european-languages…
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This is the canon: decolonising your bookshelf - event now at @brixtonlibrary @BHMLambeth
I had the absolute BEST time yesterday at Brixton Library discussing the practicalities of decolonising the bookshelf with Prof Joan Anim-Addo, Dr Deborah Osbourne and Khadija Sesay.
Thank you @QuercusBooks for making it happen
Spending the evening with the brilliant authors of This is the Canon and @BooksAndRhymes at Brixton Library where they’re chatting all about decolonizing your bookshelves! 👏🏼📚
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Happening today at 7pm! Come through for an enlightening conversation about the practicalities of decolonising the literary canon.
Get your tickets here 👇🏾
Join the authors of This is the Canon TONIGHT at @brixtonlibrary to discuss decolonizing your bookshelves. They will be in conversation with the brilliant @SarahOzoIrabor of @BooksAndRhymes 💭📖
Tickets here: eventbrite.com/e/this-is-the…
🗣🗣 Issa live show with Mukoma wa Ngügi (@MukomaWaNgugi) on the 19th of November at @LibreriaLondon!
Don’t miss our immersive sonic experience of Mukoma’s utterly sublime novel, Unbury Our Dead with Song.
Get your ticket here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-live-po…
THIS!!!!
Our Language and Translations Symposium starts on the 16th, with former Managing Editor, @MosesKilolo curating five panels on #Ngugi wa Thiongo through the day. Free tickets on @eventbrite here, register and share 🙏!
bitly.com/thejaladasymposium
Happening today!!!
We will be discussing the genealogy of African feminist poet(s/ry) with @this_natalia, editor of the groundbreaking anthology, Wild Imperfections (cassavarepublic.biz/product/…)
Join us today at 7pm GMT/ 8pm BST, here: Instagram.com/BooksAndRhymes
Fancy satisfying your curiosity on how poets have shaped African feminist discourse?
This Weds at 8pm BST, Natalia Molebatsi (@this_natalia) will be taking us through the ties that bind past and present African women poets.
Details here: instagram.com/p/CU7fZCGo40u
