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Book and Lounge @bookandlounge8.bsky.social · Oct 19
Check out our new podcast episode, where we sat down with author Lauri Kubuitsile to discuss her novel The Scattering, which is against the backdrop of the Herero genocide and the Anglo-Boer War.

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Prix Voix d’Afriques 2025 finalists announced
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Prix Voix d’Afriques 2025 finalists announced
The finalists of Prix Voix d’Afriques 2025 were announced by the jury chair Mohamed Mbougar Sarr on Saturday, October 18, 2025.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Ibadan Book and Arts Festival 2025 starts October 24
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Ibadan Book and Arts Festival 2025 starts October 24
The Ibadan Book and Arts Festival 2025, with the theme “The Past as Prologue to the Future,” will be held in the Nigerian town from October 24 – 25, 2025.
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October 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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This week’s recommendation is Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, which was banned in Kenya upon its release for exposing the struggles of ordinary people against greed and corruption.

A former PEN Vice President, Ngũgĩ has long stood with writers worldwide in defending the freedom to write.
October 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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In our new PEN Ten interview, our 2025 Emerging Voices Fellows explore what inspires their writing and the community that they have found amongst other creatives. Read more: https://pen.org/2025-emerging-voices-fellows-the-pen-ten-interview/
2025 Emerging Voices Fellows | The PEN Ten Interview
PEN America’s 2025 Emerging Voices Fellows provide insight into their creative processes and how they’ve developed as writers.
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October 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Wasafiri remembers Zoë Wicomb, who passed away recently on 13 October, 2025. In celebration of her life and work, we are making her short story, 'In Search of Tommie', from our 25th anniversary issue, free to access until the end of the month.

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October 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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“The fighting must never resume.” We welcome the ceasefire in Gaza and call for a permanent end to genocide, occupation, and apartheid. Justice, accountability, and the right to self-determination for Palestinians must follow.
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OPT/Israel: Gaza ceasefire must be followed by steps to ensure accountability and the right to self-determination for Palestinians — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Exp...
“ We are thrilled to see the war stop in Gaza and continue to call for a permanent end to the genocide, occupation, and apartheid. For over two years, millions of Palestinians lived through the horror...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Books that imagine alternative futures for ravaged homes and stolen homelands, in Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, and Palestine.
7 Books About the Power of Political Imagination - Electric Literature
These authors from Palestine, Libya, Lebanon, and elsewhere use storytelling to assert their presence on stolen homelands
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October 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Check out our new podcast episode, where we sat down with author Lauri Kubuitsile to discuss her novel The Scattering, which is against the backdrop of the Herero genocide and the Anglo-Boer War.

Listen 🎶 at linktr.ee/bookandlounge

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October 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Volume 11 of *James Baldwin Review* is now available. “European Baldwins,” finds European readers, writers, and critics from various backgrounds exploring Baldwin’s resonance within varied contexts. As always, *JBR* is open access.

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September 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Well this is just lovely 📚

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NoViolet Bulawayo wins the Best of Caine award
The Zimbabwean writer – who has been twice nominated for the Booker – won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2011, with her story Hitting Budapest
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September 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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NoViolet Bulawayo of Zimbabwe has won the 2025 Best of the Caine Prize for African Writing award! 🎉

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Zimbabwean Writer NoViolet Bulawayo Wins the 2025 Best of Caine Award - JAY Lit
The Caine Prize for African Writing has announced Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo as the winner of the 2025 Best of Caine Award for her short story, "Hitting Budapest", which originally won the Pr...
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September 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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New Episode Alert!
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September 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Was Dreamcount Chimamanda's new book worth waiting 10 years for? Check out what we thought in our latest podcast episode. Available at bookandlounge.com/podcast.
August 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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The first All-Black Girl Fantasy graphic novel anthology on Kickstarter is currently at $12k! We need to double this amount in one week to print this must-have graphic novel. It's 2025 and I can't believe we are the first Black girl fantasy graphic novel #comicbooks
July 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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🎤 New episode ⚠️
In this episode, we unpack the themes of identity, family dynamics, and the impact of Rastafarian culture in Safiya Sinclair's memoir, How to Say Babylon

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July 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in June 2025 - Reactor 💙📚 reactormag.com/new-science-...
All the New Science Fiction Books Arriving in June 2025 - Reactor
We're going to Mars, Jupiter, and even Alpha Centauri in June's new science fiction releases.
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June 9, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Dialed To Heartbreak
A story about digital-age love, quiet heartbreak, and the things sometimes left unsaid that could destroy a relationship even before it blossoms — from Uwagboe Efosa
Dialed To Heartbreak
A story about digital-age love, quiet heartbreak, and the things sometimes left unsaid that could destroy a relationship even before it…
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June 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Perfectly Imperfect
Poems from Kenyan Moseka Ole Ntiyia
Perfectly Imperfect
Poems from Kenyan Moseka Ole Ntiyia
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June 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Ngugi and the Geology of Memory - Olongo Africa olongoafrica.com/ngugi-and-th...
Ngugi and the Geology of Memory - Olongo Africa
Download as PDFGoing to the university for the first time in the harmattan semester of 1991-92, I first realised how influential Ngugi wa Thiong’o was in the Nigerian literary and dramatic spheres.…
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June 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Last week, we’ve issued a new statement on Gaza, condemning the ongoing genocide and calling for an #armsembargonow. Find out more ➡️ www.pen-international.org/news/optisra... @penmena.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Macondo Literary Festival 2025 for Nairobi from September 19
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Macondo Literary Festival 2025 for Nairobi from September 19
The Macondo Literary Festival 2025, with the theme “Chronicles and Currents,” will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from September 19 – 21, 2025.
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June 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Our summer special issue, Wasafiri 122: The UAE Issue, is now available to read online!

Read here (for digital subscribers & those with access to Taylor & Francis only): buff.ly/IXL7GnH

Can't access online? Preorder the print issue here: buff.ly/W7YVfci
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June 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Why do we read? How is technology changing the way we consume literature? What are the pros and cons of audiobooks?

Tune in to discover why reading is not just a pastime but a vital part of our shared human experience. Available at pod.fo/e/2dd1a3
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June 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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@thecontinent.org remembers Ngũgĩ.
Screenshot from The Continent. Part of the text reads: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 1988 - 2025 JACQUELINE NYATHI (PHOTO: LEONARDO CENDAMO/ GETTY IMAGES) In 1964, after Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o had published Weep Not, Child, he entered a club in Nairobi and everyone mistook him for the author of Things Fall Apart. He later told Wole Soyinka that Chinua Achebe's name had "haunted his life". Soyinka said that he, too, had been mistaken for Achebe. All towering figures in their own right, the three were also a tribe: "Writers for whom literature and politics were inextricable," as editor and author Bhakti Shringarpure says. Aged 87, Ngũgĩ passed away on 28 May in the United States after a long illness. That he died in the US should be an indictment of our postcolonial states and their inability to live with writers who fight the good fight. Ngũgĩ suffered greatpersecution from the Kenyan government for his work, first under Jomo Kenyatta, and then Daniel arap Moi. In 1977 he spenta year in Kamiti Maximum Security Prison for writing, in Gīkũyũ, Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want), which the Kenyatta government considered subversive. His 1981 novel, Caitaani Mũtharabainĩ (Devil on the Cross) was also written there - on toilet paper. In 1982, he was forced into exile when, in London for a book launch, Ngũgi learnt of a plot against him back in Kenya.
May 31, 2025 at 5:09 AM