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The Safal Kiswahili Prize for African Literature founded in 2014.

Celebrating 10 years! (2025) #KiswahiliPrize #10Years

Submissions closed 30 Nov '24.
Awards: July 2025.

Insta: @TheKiswahiliPrize
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kiswahiliprize.bsky.social
Currently attending @englishpen.bsky.social salon @lbf25.bsky.social

Chaired by @sanagoyalkotecha.bsky.social @wasafirimag.bsky.social speaking to:

Bibi Bakare-Yusuf #CassavaRepublic Lucy Kasse #Ethiopia, Yasmin Abdel-Magied #Sudan

#KiswahiliPrize
#MiakaKumi
March 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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writingafrica.bsky.social
Audie Awards 2025 winners announced.
#LiteraryAwards #AudioBooks
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Audie Awards 2025 winners announced.
The Audie Awards 2025 winners were announced in New York, USA on Tuesday, March 4, 2025. Here are the writers of African descent who won in their categories.
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March 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
kiswahiliprize.bsky.social
Co-founder @lizzyattree.bsky.social is at London Book Fair today #LBF25 in west London UK.

We'll be talking translations to whomsoever we meet...

And celebrating #MiakaKumi

#KiswahiliPrize
#SafalKiswahiliPrize

#Insta
@theKiswahiliPrize
March 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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kiswahiliprize.bsky.social
The #KiswahiliPrize team couldn't be happier with this ground-breaking decision by @wasafirimag.bsky.social @sanagoyalkotecha.bsky.social

@kilolo-m.bsky.social @mukomawangugi.bsky.social

Hongera sana,

#MiakaKumi
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wasafirimag.bsky.social Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Mar 9
The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is open to works in translation for the very first time. Editor @sanagoyal.bsky.social outlines why and how this is a major step for the prize and Wasafiri more widely, in our efforts to be as global as can be.

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March 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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thebookseller.com
The UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) received more than 13,000 responses to its recent consultation on copyright, it has been revealed👇 #BookSky
UK IP watchdog receives 13,000 responses to its copyright consultation, as LBF turns its focus to AI
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March 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
kiswahiliprize.bsky.social
The #KiswahiliPrize team couldn't be happier with this ground-breaking decision by @wasafirimag.bsky.social @sanagoyalkotecha.bsky.social

@kilolo-m.bsky.social @mukomawangugi.bsky.social

Hongera sana,

#MiakaKumi
@KiswahiliPrize
wasafirimag.bsky.social Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · Mar 9
The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is open to works in translation for the very first time. Editor @sanagoyal.bsky.social outlines why and how this is a major step for the prize and Wasafiri more widely, in our efforts to be as global as can be.

buff.ly/BdwZnzn
March 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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wasafirimag.bsky.social
The Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize is open to works in translation for the very first time. Editor @sanagoyal.bsky.social outlines why and how this is a major step for the prize and Wasafiri more widely, in our efforts to be as global as can be.

buff.ly/BdwZnzn
March 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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lizzyattree.bsky.social
#StarsonMoonLane 3rd Thursdays @MoonLaneInk Bookshop #BlytheVale #Catford #ForestHill #Lewisham #BlytheSpirit
March 3, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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lizzyattree.bsky.social
Further thoughts on joy, celebrating #EzraCollective's #BRITs2025 and #ForestHillBoys #Headmasters & #Alumni
We give thanks and pay it back to pay it forwards #PlayItBack #PlayItForwards

#StarsonMoonLane
@stars_onmoonlane
#MoonLaneInk bookshop
March 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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lizzyattree.bsky.social
Met one of my all time heroes last night! At @writersmosaic.bsky.social organised by #GabrielGbadamosi

#GaryYounge #Legend
Was in conversation with Bonnie Greer, Colin Grant, Vanessa Kisuule re: #MalcolmX

Falle Nioke sang us 4 Mandinke songs in at least 5 languages @britishlibrary.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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cancovsoc.bsky.social Canadian Covid Society @cancovsoc.bsky.social · Mar 8
This International Women's Day, we celebrate the strength, resilience, and contributions of women who are living with and researching long Covid.
🧵 1/6
#IWD2025 #InternationalWomensDay #ILCAD2025
Teal graphic with dandelion illustration from the Canadian Covid Society logo. Text on the graphic reads: 59.5% of females with long Covid report limitations in daily life (sometimes or often/always) versus 45% of males.
March 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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lizzyattree.bsky.social
Stars on Moon Lane is a new series of evening events at #MoonLaneInk Bookshop in Blythe Vale, Lewisham.

Our first event is tomorrow 7-9pm and is FREE and open to all.

Feat. African/diaspora poets & writers.

@jollypaps.bsky.social
#BlytheSpirit
February 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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prisoner187.bsky.social
Check out my new short. Planet hopping nomad meets terrestrial nomads when she falls out of a strange sky and gets stranded. Has dance as a form of long distance communications and space altering baobabs (sort of).

www.ubwali.com/you-can-alwa...
Ubwali Literary Magazine
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February 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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lizzyattree.bsky.social
This was such a good intervention back in November 2024.

A new round needed more than ever for #AfricanLanguages

@kiswahiliprize.bsky.social #KiswahiliWriters

#MiakaKumi
#10Years
February 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
kiswahiliprize.bsky.social
It is with great sadness that we mourn the loss of the journalist, essayist, Ahmed Rajab today, with his family, in London & E. Africa.

He served as a judge for the 2019 Prize & was a great friend to us all @kiswahiliprize.bsky.social

Signed @lizzyattree.bsky.social co-founder #KiswahiliPrize
February 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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writingafrica.bsky.social
Iyanuoluwa Adenle wins Kofi Awoonor Poetry Prize 2024
#LiteraryAwards #Poetry
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Iyanuoluwa Adenle wins Kofi Awoonor Poetry Prize 2024
Iyanuoluwa Adenle won the Kofi Awoonor Poetry Prize 2024 on Saturday, February 1, 2025.
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February 5, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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It is with profound sadness that the Aga Khan Studs shares news of the passing of His Highness Prince Karim Al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV at the age of 88.

He leaves a legacy of excellence that will continue to inspire generations to come.

➡️ tinyurl.com/HHtheAgaKhan...

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February 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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writingafrica.bsky.social
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2025 longlist announced
#LiteraryAwards #Fiction
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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2025 longlist announced
‘Pemi Aguda, Percival Everett, and John Vercher are on the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction 2025 longlist announced on Monday, February 3, 2025.
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February 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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wasafirimag.bsky.social
The art piece from Wasafiri 120: Armenia(n)s — Elevation is a collaborative ode to the Armenian memory book. Historian @khatchig.bsky.social, urbanist Garine Boghossian, poet Christopher Kazar Janigian, and artist Masha Keryan gather to recreate home in exile:

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Exclusive Extract: Recreating Home in Exile — The Armenian Memory Book as Art, Artefact, and Roadmap
This collaborative ode to the tradition of the Armenian memory book, or houshamadyan — from Wasafiri 120:
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February 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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shanifanasser.bsky.social
Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims around the world, has died at 88.

It's almost impossible to grasp the enormity of this moment for the Ismaili community.

More to come:
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Aga Khan dead at 88 | CBC News
Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims around the world, has died at 88.
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February 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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The Aga Khan, known for his triumphs in horse racing, dazzling wealth and development work around the world, has died in Lisbon at the age of 88, according to the Aga Khan Development Network on X reut.rs/3CFdXzQ
The Aga Khan, spiritual leader whose riches enabled horse racing glory, dies at 88
The Aga Khan, known for his triumphs in horse racing, dazzling wealth and development work around the world, has died in Lisbon at the age of 88, according to the Aga Khan Development Network on X.
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February 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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blaft.bsky.social
Read some of Gujarat's bestsellling supernatural thriller, scifi, and crime writers in translation!

www.blaft.com/collections/...
Gujarati Pulp Fiction
February 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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wtalabi.bsky.social
Attention African SFF authors!
Strongly encourage you all to submit to this Applied African SF project from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @africansfs.bsky.social, Uni of Nairobi & The Intn'l Black Spec Writing Festival.
Call for Proposals: New short fiction.
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Call for Proposals: New short fiction
Applied African Science Fiction (SF) is a project funded by Imperial College London that, together in collaboration with the University of Nairobi, the African Speculative Fiction Society, Vector a…
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February 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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tatevik.bsky.social
Congratulations to all the winners - and all three books are reviewed in the new Armenian issue of @wasafirimag.bsky.social
armenianliterary.org International Armenian Literary Alliance @armenianliterary.org · Jan 22
Congrats to Deanna Cachoian-Schanz for winning NAASR's 2024 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prizes for Excellence in Armenian Studies for "A Book, Untitled," her translation of IALA advisory board member Shushan Avagyan’s "Գիրք-անվերնագիր"! 👏

📖 Read about it on Armenian Weekly: bit.ly/42sKVhh
NAASR announces winners of 2024 Dr. Sona Aronian Armenian Studies book prizes
The National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) is pleased to announce the 2024 Dr. Sona Aronian Book Prizes for Excellence in Armenian Studies, jointly awarded to Dr. Sebouh D. Asl...
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January 23, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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wasafirimag.bsky.social
In London this Thursday? Don't miss the launch of 100 Days, 100 Stories - at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social - a collection of Rwandan stories about the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and its aftermath. Speakers include Jo Ingabire Moys & Alphonsine Kabagabo.

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Select tickets – LAUNCH EVENT: 100 Days, 100 Stories: Rwandan Voices on the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi – Anatomy Lecture Theatre
Please join us to celebrate the publication of 100 Days, 100 Stories edited by Jo Ingabire Moys. The collection brings together...
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December 10, 2024 at 11:36 AM