READING AFRICA 3-9 DECEMBER 2023

Join us for three online events this #ReadingAfrica Week! All events are free, but registration is required. All events begin at 12pm ET | 5pm London | 7pm SAST

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From Nairobi to New York: Kenyan Writers on the Rise
Authors Kiprop Kimutai and Carey Baraka chat with Dr. Lizzy Attree, co-founder of the Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature and Director (UK) Short Story Day Africa about the ever-growing Kenyan literary scene.

Kiprop Kimutai is a Nairobi-based writer whose fiction has appeared in Jacana, Kwani Trust, Jalada Africa, Painted Bride Quarterly, No Tokens, Kachifo, New internationalist and Acre Books.

Carey Baraka is a writer from Kisumu, Kenya. His writing about literary culture, food, and politics, among other topics, has appeared in Literary Hub, The Johannesburg Review of Books, Electric Literature, Serious Eats, Foreign Policy, Gay Magazine, among other outlets.

Dr. Lizzy Attree is the co-founder of the Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature. She has a PhD from SOAS, University of London. Blood on the Page, her collection of interviews with the first African writers to write about HIV and AIDS from Zimbabwe and South Africa, was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2010. She is a Director on the board of Short Story Day Africa and was the Director of the Caine Prize from 2014 to 2018.


Writing a Greener World: How African Writers are Responding the Climate Crisis
Authors Chinelo Onwualu, Dr. Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike, Helon Habila, Dela Gwala and Nelson Rolon in conversation with author and activist Bridget Pitt. Chinelo Onwualu is a speculative fiction writer and co-founder of Omenana Magazine

Dr. Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike is an author of short fiction, poetry, and children’s fiction. Assistant professor of English at the University of Calgary

Helon Habila is a novelist and poet. Professor at George Mason University Dela Gwala, feminist facilitator, researcher, creative chameleon and a multidisciplinary storyteller.

Dela Gwala is a feminist facilitator, researcher, creative chameleon and a multidisciplinary storyteller. Her writing has been published in three books: Our Ghosts Were Once People, Feminism Is, and This is How it is. Dela is currently working on a documentary about an ocean scientist who is also a Sangoma.

Nelson Rolon is a speculative fiction writer. Author of Saudade and Sponsor Coordinator and Tech Assistant at FIYAH Literary Magazine

Moderated by Bridget Pitt, South African author and environmental activist, and author of Eye Brother Horn


African Languages, Global Audiences: Publishers and Writers on the Art of Translation
A roundtable discussion on translated literature featuring authors, translators, and literary professionals.

Hannes Barnard is a South African-born author of both English and Afrikaans novels.

Tina Kover is the translator of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction. Her translations have twice been nominated for the IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award and she was the recipient in 2009 of a Literary Translation Fellowship from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts.

Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer and editor who runs the Radical Books Collective and is the founding editor of Warscapes online magazine.

Raphael Thierry is a literary agent and founder of Ægitna Literary Agency, which is dedicated to world literature and targets unconventional fiction and non-fiction publications and translations. ?