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Day: April 7, 2014

where’s the african chick-lit?


What kind of books need to be written? More non-fictionbooks on the African situation? More novels with an African theme? Or more novels with a worldtheme? Or do does Africa need more chick-lit? Read some opinions on chick-lit.

Posted on 7 April 201415 January 2015Categories Africa, books, LiteratureTags Africa, books, literatureLeave a comment

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A historian with books to his name. A writer with a historical book. You are looking at the Kenyan couple Bethwell and Grace Ogot. In this article Bethwell Ogot talks about his views on politics and books and the intellectual elite.

Posted on 7 April 201416 May 2014Categories Africa, Bethwell Ogot, books, Grace Ogot, KenyaTags Africa, Bethwell Ogot, books, Grace Ogot, history, KenyaLeave a comment

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  • a pan-African writers' collective
  • Africa and booklinks (in Dutch)
  • Africa and books from Belgium a Belgium publisher with books with a link to Africa
  • Africa Book Club
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  • African Literature Association a platform for literary scientists, most of them based in North America
  • African Writers Trust dialogue across the continent, across the diaspora
  • Aminatta Forna (1964-) – Scotland / Sierra Leone / etcetera
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  • authors in Africa writers from all directions in Africa
  • Ben Okri (1959- ) – United Kingdom / Nigeria
  • Book Shy an African book lover
  • books on Ethiopia de bloghoudster heeft in Ethiopie gewoond en gereisd
  • Bryony Rheam (1974 – ) – Zimbabwe / Zambia
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977- ) – Nigeria / USA Nigerian writer
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Nigeria website maintained not be the writer
  • Chinelo Okparanta – USA/Nigeria writer of ‘Under the udala trees’
  • Dalene Matthee (1938-2005) – South Africa
  • David Livingstone (1813 – 1873) – Scotland missionary and explorer of Scottish origin
  • Deon Meyer (1958- ) – South Africa Zuidafrikaanse krimi-schrijver
  • Ekow Duker – Ghana / South Africa from oil and investmentbanking to writing; from one place to another
  • Ellen Banda – Aaku (1965 – ) – Zambia
  • Etienne van Heerden (1954- ) – South Africa
  • Fransje van Riel – South Africa
  • Gambian writers
  • Helon Habila (1967- ) – USA / Nigeria
  • Ingrid Jonker (1933-1965) – South Africa poetry in the Afrikaner language
  • Ivan Vladislavic (1957 – ) – South Africa
  • J. M. Coetzee (1940- ) – Australia / South Africa Dutch language, by his publishing house
  • Jamal Mahjoub and Parker Bilal (1960) – England / Sudan / Egypt / Spain
  • James Murua – Kenya a literature blog
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  • Marita van der Vyver (1958- ) – France / South Africa from her native South Africa she moved to the south of France
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  • PUO -South Africa a South African publisher with an open eye and open heart for children
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  • Sooo many stories a website by Nyana Kakoma from Uganda
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