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April 28, 2022

Engaging Borders Africa Announces Screenwriters for Sahel Film Making Project

Three short story authors will be paired with experienced screenwriters to produce scripts.
Engaging Borders Africa
Engaging Borders Africa announces screenwriters

April 18, 2022

Doek Literary Festival Announces Guest List, with Tsitsi Dangarembga as Headliner

Also participating are the Nigerian writer Femi Kayode, the South African writer Zukiswa Wanner, and Doek editor Remy Ngamije.
Doek! Magazine
Tsitsi Dangarembga. By Hannah Mertz in The Guardian

March 29, 2022

TAFM 2022: Owen Olowu’s Songs of Ubong Takes Grand Cheese Prize for Best Film

23 films were screened in competition at The Annual Film Mischief, a festival by The Film Rats Club. Other winners include Olabode Izy’s The Samaritan and Tosan Anyafulu’s Reflections.
The Film Rats Club
Part of the audience at The Annual Film Mischief 2022.

March 21, 2022

Chibuihe Achimba & Sara Elkamel to Guest-edit 20.35 Africa Poetry Series’ Vol. 5

The series is now open to submissions.
20.35 Africa
Sara Elkamel by Sima Diab

March 8, 2022

The Film Rats Club Announces The Annual Film Mischief Festival 2022

The organisation is devoted to low-budget indie films. The inaugural festival theme is “Less is more.”
The Film Rats Club
The Film Rats Club

February 23, 2022

Join Agbowo’s Editorial Team as a Reader

Agbowó
Agbowo issue 2 - Limits

February 23, 2022

Doek! Partners with UEA’s International Chair of Creative Writing for Literary Festival in Namibia

The Doek! Literary Festival will take place from 21-23 April 2022.
Doek! Magazine
Doek Magazine Issue 7. Cover image by Collective For Black Iranians.

February 15, 2022

SBMEN Announces Editorial Practice & Project Management Course for Feb. 2022

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)
society of book and magazine editors of Nigeria

January 27, 2022

Engaging Borders Africa Announces Finalists

The 30 short stories have “the shared aim of changing the ways young people understand radicalization, violent extremism, and disinformation, which are key feeders of conflict and terror in Africa.”
Engaging Borders Africa
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim's novel Season of Crimson Blossoms is set in northern Nigeria, which has suffered a rise in terrorism.

January 21, 2022

Bookshop.org Announces Shortlist for New Futures Programme

It includes BAME, neurodiverse, LGBTQ+, and visually and hearing impaired as well as mental health advocates.
Midas PR
A bookshop.org store. Image by Book Culture.

January 12, 2022

Lolwe Magazine Releases Issue 4

The Pan-African publication’s newest includes writing and photography. Read the editorial note by its founder Troy Onyango.
Lolwe
Lolwe-Issue-4-Cover

January 7, 2022

Doek! Magazine Releases Issue 7

The Namibian magazine’s latest issue, Soon/Come, features contributors from three continents. Read the editorial note by its founder Remy Ngamije.
Doek! Magazine
Doek Magazine Issue 7. Cover image by Collective For Black Iranians.

January 6, 2022

Anietie Isong’s Radio Sunrise Set for Film Adaptation

The production of the novel, which is about brown envelope journalism, is led by two Nollywood companies, Royal Arts Academy and Closer Pictures.
Open Country Mag
anietie isong - radio sunrise

December 23, 2021

Enter for the 2022 AKO Caine Prize

The £10,000 award went to Ethiopia’s Meron Hadero in 2021.
The AKO Caine Prize
Copies of Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize 2015 anthology. From caineprize.com.

December 10, 2021

In Before Them, We, 24 U.K. Poets of African Descent Explore Their Grandparents’ Lives

Midas PR
The cover art of Before Them, We. Credit: Adama Jalloh.

November 19, 2021

The Winners of the Bank Windhoek Doek Awards for Namibian Literature

Judges for the biennial awards selected Ndawedwa Denga Hanghuwo in fiction, Pauline Buhle Ndhlovu in poetry, Natasha Uys in nonfiction, and Namafu Amutse in visual art.
Doek! Magazine
The 2021 Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards trophy for fiction awarded to Ndawedwa Denga Hanghuwo. © Doek.

October 15, 2021

Submit to World Literature Today’s “New African Voices” Portfolio

It is guest-edited by Mahtem Shiferraw.
Open Country Mag
An issue of World Literature Today. Credit: Yahia Lababidi.

October 7, 2021

Bookshop.org Launches New Futures, an Initiative for Underrepresented Communities

Partnering with The Booksellers Association, Gardners, and The Bookseller, the initiative will see booksellers from Black and marginalized groups open their own indie bookshops.
Midas PR
A bookshop.org store. Image by Book Culture.

September 20, 2021

Damon Galgut & Nadifa Mohamed Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

The South African Galgut makes the list for the third time, for The Promise. The Somali Mohamed is chosen for her The Fortune Men.
The Booker Prize Foundation
Damon Galgut. From The Booker Prize.

September 17, 2021

A Long House Announces the Rajat Neogy Editorial Fellowship

The fellowship is named after Rajat Neogy, the Ugandan writer and editor who founded Transition Magazine at age 22.
A Long House
Rajat Neogy on the cover of Transition Magazine's issue 69.

April 28, 2022

Engaging Borders Africa announces screenwriters

Engaging Borders Africa Announces Screenwriters for Sahel Film Making Project

Three short story authors will be paired with experienced screenwriters to produce scripts.
Engaging Borders Africa

April 18, 2022

Tsitsi Dangarembga. By Hannah Mertz in The Guardian

Doek Literary Festival Announces Guest List, with Tsitsi Dangarembga as Headliner

Also participating are the Nigerian writer Femi Kayode, the South African writer Zukiswa Wanner, and Doek editor Remy Ngamije.
Doek! Magazine

March 29, 2022

Part of the audience at The Annual Film Mischief 2022.

TAFM 2022: Owen Olowu’s Songs of Ubong Takes Grand Cheese Prize for Best Film

23 films were screened in competition at The Annual Film Mischief, a festival by The Film Rats Club. Other winners include Olabode Izy’s The Samaritan and Tosan Anyafulu’s Reflections.
The Film Rats Club

March 21, 2022

Sara Elkamel by Sima Diab

Chibuihe Achimba & Sara Elkamel to Guest-edit 20.35 Africa Poetry Series’ Vol. 5

The series is now open to submissions.
20.35 Africa

March 8, 2022

The Film Rats Club

The Film Rats Club Announces The Annual Film Mischief Festival 2022

The organisation is devoted to low-budget indie films. The inaugural festival theme is “Less is more.”
The Film Rats Club

February 23, 2022

Agbowo issue 2 - Limits

Join Agbowo’s Editorial Team as a Reader

Agbowó

February 23, 2022

Doek Magazine Issue 7. Cover image by Collective For Black Iranians.

Doek! Partners with UEA’s International Chair of Creative Writing for Literary Festival in Namibia

The Doek! Literary Festival will take place from 21-23 April 2022.
Doek! Magazine

February 15, 2022

society of book and magazine editors of Nigeria

SBMEN Announces Editorial Practice & Project Management Course for Feb. 2022

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)

January 27, 2022

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim's novel Season of Crimson Blossoms is set in northern Nigeria, which has suffered a rise in terrorism.

Engaging Borders Africa Announces Finalists

The 30 short stories have “the shared aim of changing the ways young people understand radicalization, violent extremism, and disinformation, which are key feeders of conflict and terror in Africa.”
Engaging Borders Africa

January 21, 2022

A bookshop.org store. Image by Book Culture.

Bookshop.org Announces Shortlist for New Futures Programme

It includes BAME, neurodiverse, LGBTQ+, and visually and hearing impaired as well as mental health advocates.
Midas PR

January 12, 2022

Lolwe-Issue-4-Cover

Lolwe Magazine Releases Issue 4

The Pan-African publication’s newest includes writing and photography. Read the editorial note by its founder Troy Onyango.
Lolwe

January 7, 2022

Doek Magazine Issue 7. Cover image by Collective For Black Iranians.

Doek! Magazine Releases Issue 7

The Namibian magazine’s latest issue, Soon/Come, features contributors from three continents. Read the editorial note by its founder Remy Ngamije.
Doek! Magazine

January 6, 2022

anietie isong - radio sunrise

Anietie Isong’s Radio Sunrise Set for Film Adaptation

The production of the novel, which is about brown envelope journalism, is led by two Nollywood companies, Royal Arts Academy and Closer Pictures.
Open Country Mag

December 23, 2021

Copies of Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize 2015 anthology. From caineprize.com.

Enter for the 2022 AKO Caine Prize

The £10,000 award went to Ethiopia’s Meron Hadero in 2021.
The AKO Caine Prize

December 10, 2021

The cover art of Before Them, We. Credit: Adama Jalloh.

In Before Them, We, 24 U.K. Poets of African Descent Explore Their Grandparents’ Lives

Midas PR

November 19, 2021

The 2021 Bank Windhoek Doek Literary Awards trophy for fiction awarded to Ndawedwa Denga Hanghuwo. © Doek.

The Winners of the Bank Windhoek Doek Awards for Namibian Literature

Judges for the biennial awards selected Ndawedwa Denga Hanghuwo in fiction, Pauline Buhle Ndhlovu in poetry, Natasha Uys in nonfiction, and Namafu Amutse in visual art.
Doek! Magazine

October 15, 2021

An issue of World Literature Today. Credit: Yahia Lababidi.

Submit to World Literature Today’s “New African Voices” Portfolio

It is guest-edited by Mahtem Shiferraw.
Open Country Mag

October 7, 2021

A bookshop.org store. Image by Book Culture.

Bookshop.org Launches New Futures, an Initiative for Underrepresented Communities

Partnering with The Booksellers Association, Gardners, and The Bookseller, the initiative will see booksellers from Black and marginalized groups open their own indie bookshops.
Midas PR

September 20, 2021

Damon Galgut. From The Booker Prize.

Damon Galgut & Nadifa Mohamed Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

The South African Galgut makes the list for the third time, for The Promise. The Somali Mohamed is chosen for her The Fortune Men.
The Booker Prize Foundation

September 17, 2021

Rajat Neogy on the cover of Transition Magazine's issue 69.

A Long House Announces the Rajat Neogy Editorial Fellowship

The fellowship is named after Rajat Neogy, the Ugandan writer and editor who founded Transition Magazine at age 22.
A Long House

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