Released: Longlist for maiden $20,000 CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa 2024
The jurors (clockwise): Dr Okediran with the longlist titles, Edwige-Renée Dro, and Ashraf Aboul-Yazid The jury for the CANEX Prize ...
Tag: African writers
Tenth anniversary: ANA to celebrate Chinua Achebe’s ‘enduring legacy’
Chinua Achebe The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) has concluded plans to celebrate ten years after foremost writer and its ...
Posthumous Anniversary: Chinua Achebe’s Enduring Legacy
It is about ten years since the death of Chinua Achebe, author of the world acclaimed novel, Things Fall Apart. ...
Nigerian author and ANA co-founder Labo Yari dies at 81
The first novelist to be published in the English language in northern Nigeria, Alhaji Labo Yari, died on Saturday in ...
Remembering Mohammed Sule
I loved Pacesetters series during my secondary school days and the book ‘The Undesirable Element’ by Mohammed Sule was the ...
Creative Writing and Writers’ Residencies
KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT THE RECEPTION FOR EBEDI FELLOWS AT THE EBEDI INTERNATIONAL WRITERS RESIDENCY, ISEYIN, NIGERIA ON JANUARY 21 2023 ...
2023 Cairo Book Fair: PAWA president visits Egyptian envoy to Ghana
Ahead of the 54th Cairo International Book Fair to be held in January, 2023, the Secretary-General of the Pan African ...
Four writers arrive Iseyin for Ebedi residency
Four new writers have arrived the town of Iseyin, Oyo State, for the August/September 2022 Ebedi International Writers Residency programme. ...
Writers canvass copyright legislation in African countries
The Pan African Writers Association (PAWA) said it will encourage the enactment of strong legislation in member African countries on ...
PAWA: Literature Since Makerere – Communique
COMMUNIQUE ISSUED BY THE PAN AFRICAN WRITERS ASSOCIATION AT THE END OF ITS CONFERENCE AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON JUNE 24 ...