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You can now access the special issue on @AdhiamboKE's works. @GodwinSiundu has written a terrific introduction to this special issue with contributions on "Weight of Whispers" (2006), Dust (2014) and The Dragonfly Sea (2019)
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Every crime has a price. Every secret has a story. Every fate has a twist. Dive into John Kiramiti’s gripping Crime & Suspense Collection, where danger lurks and nothing is as it seems! Explore the collection on: africanbookscollective.com #johnkiriamiti #eaep #africanliterature
We have yet another article by Tom Mboya! This is the time of day to enjoy Congolese music in restaurants in Kenya, sung in Lingala, and Mboya reads this genre as an avenue for reading Kenyan cosmopolitanisms
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An article is out by Tom Mboya of @MoiUniversity_ on valences of home in relation to postcolonial identity-based politics, based on a reading of Chains of Junkdom by Okiya Omtata Okoiti. Read it on the link below:
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What happens when one is both victim and perpetrator? How does this complicate identity esp. in the wake of a genocide? Kathleen Jennings of @MandelaUni answers these questions via a reading of Gilbert Gatore’s novel 'The Past Ahead'
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Artivism! Read Edna Olondo's reading of the graphics anthology 'Meanwhile … : Graphic Short Stories about Everyday Queer Life in Southern and East Africa' (2019) for counternarratives of queer lives in Africa
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We are huge fans of @AdhiamboKE's work & we have here a paper by Julian Namiyindo of @MakLiterature who follows the character of the poignant Ajany, in this reading of how female agency mediates alternative versions of historical justice & reconciliation
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Pleased to see our article on Perusi Kagaju in the latest print issue of @EALCS_Journal @auukarekezi @mcinally_d @StAModLangs
Alice U. U. Karekezi, Nicki Hitchcott & John McInally's utilisation of narrative biography & oral testimony of the genocide in Rwanda to show the colonial representation of black motherhood as, among other things, threatening and disposable
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Mashariki conference series goes back to Nairobi in June next year, and today we look back to Dar 2025 and share the keynote that was delivered by our very own Susan Kiguli, on Ngugi wa Thiong'o the writer, the critic. Read it on the following link:
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Excited to share my new article in Visual Studies. I argue that photographs in Anglophone African autobiographies are not mere illustrations but narrative forms in their own right. I welcome critical engagement and conversation!
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Finally, we have all read Mariama Bâ's So Long a Letter, but have you read Wanjiku Kabira's A Letter to Mariama Bâ? Then you certainly need to read Omoyemi Asijebutu's reading of bonds of resistance in the novella
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How might Ubuntu be useful for destabilising hegemonic masculinity? Lilian Mbabazi, Patrick Mangeni, Pamela Khanakwa & Dominica Dipio answer this, with a reading of Bakiga storytelling:
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Alice U. U. Karekezi, Nicki Hitchcott & John McInally's utilisation of narrative biography & oral testimony of the genocide in Rwanda to show the colonial representation of black motherhood as, among other things, threatening and disposable
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Mariambibi Khan's reading for contemporary jewelry as a site for reading cultural identity and belonging from a Muslim perspective, with a focus on the artistic work of Egyptian and Saudi Arabian female jewellers
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Enjoy Paul Mukundi's refreshing reading of Margaret Ogola's Place of Destiny for death as psychoredemptive
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New Issue alert! If you are interested in African women's writing and African feminisms, this is for you!
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Guys, @OnyebuchiEwa is now an author. Big man with big strides.👏👏 Get your copies now, and join the virtual launch today by 5 p.m.
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Macondo Baraza returns for its third year; bringing writers, artists and readers together in Swahili for conversations that live beyond the festival stage.
Mark your calendar and karibuni Macondo Baraza!
📍18–20 Sept
(peep the biryani 🤩)
#Macondo2026
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We're thrilled to announce we've created a new competition...the BPA Short Story Award! 🥳
Enter for the chance to catch the eye of a literary agent.
Open to any writer who hasn't yet published a novel / short story collection.
The webpage goes live tomorrow!
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This poem has a special place in my heart.
I'm always torn between wishing @samuelpoetry's talent and wanting to simply marvel at the beauty of his poetry.