
Monday Interview: Samson Kambalu (Malawi)
Samson Kambalu was born in Malawi in 1975. He attended the Kamuzu Academy, the so-called “Eton of Africa”, graduated from the University of Malawi‘s Chancellor College in Zomba in 1999, and completed his MA in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University in 2003. The best known of his artworks is Holy Ball, a football plastered in pages of the Bible. Kambalu...

„Take Risks“. Interview with Gary Cummiskey, Dye Hard Press, South Africa
The latest issue of African Poetry, published by the Centre for African Poetry (CAP) focuses on Gary Cummiskey’s Dye Hard Press, as part of a planned regular feature highlighting the work of book traders, agencies, educational institutions, publishers and bloggers with a notable commitment to African poetry. Since 1994 Dye Hard Press in South Africa...

Out of Africa: An Imperial Reading List of a Continent
Wendy L. Belcher, in a mail dated 6 September 2012 in H-NET List for African Literature and Cinema, queried for assistance in the selection of “recent African novels” to complement a list that she and her colleague Janice Spleth (and others) were compiling. The idea is/was to form a virtual reading group, which is just...

Von Büchern und Goldgräbern – Ein Pilotprojekt in Tansania
Vor kurzem habe ich hier über die Probleme des afrikanischen Buchmarkts berichtet. In der Folge hat es viele Reaktionen gegeben, unter anderem haben wir eine Facebook-Gruppe zu “Publishing in Africa” ins Leben gerufen, in der sehr lebhafte Debatten stattfinden. Seit vielen Jahren bemüht sich der Schweizer Kinderbuchfonds Boabab um die Förderung und Vermittlung von Kinder-...
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