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#HustleTales Podcast Ep 10: Mwiche Chikungu – Assistant Director – National Arts Council of Zambia, Creative Industries Specialist/Entrepreneur
Welcome to the tenth episode of the #HustleTales podcast. With this podcast, we are focusing on telling the stories of African entrepreneurs and professionals, the hurdles they have jumped […] More
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Freshwater by Akweake Emezi – Review
Freshwater is one of those books that leaves you thinking hard about the concept of self. Who are you truly and how much control do you have over what this […] More
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#HustleTales Podcast Ep 12: Keikantse and Kenanao Phele – Co-founders of The Gaborone Book Festival Trust (GBF)
Welcome to the twelfth episode of the #HustleTales podcast. With this podcast, we are focusing on telling the stories of African entrepreneurs and professionals, the hurdles they have jumped […] More
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Ménage à Moi
Self-administered sexual fulfilment had always been a myth to me. Besides, I’d never even had the need for it. There was always an overly eager member of the opposite sex […] More
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Breaking Glass, Saaleha E Bamjee
This is one of the stories that came out of the Writivism 2014, a project of the Centre for African Cultural Excellence, with the assistance of several partner organisations, which identifies, trains and engages […] More
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Amanda, Wonny Arthur
Amanda The past 24 hours ran like a sequence. In flashes. The sunny afternoon. The good man. The sweet, cold drink. The rushed escape. And then, nothing. But only for […] More
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Shadreck Chikoti: A Visionary of African Speculative Fiction and Cultural Activist
Shadreck Chikoti is a pioneer Malawian storyteller and cultural activist whose groundbreaking work in African speculative fiction has received both regional and international acclaim. Known for his vivid storytelling that […] More
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Uganda’s Intellectual Giant: The Poet Who Builds Where Others Break
How Philip Matogo is shaping a new literary consciousness through unity, intellect, and the quiet force of poetry. In a literary landscape often fractured by ego, rivalry, and the quiet […] More
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THE MUWADO STORYTELLING WEBINARS – PLOT, PACING, & STRUCTURE IN STORYTELLING RECAP – KAGAYI NGOBI
Week 3 of the Muwado Commercial Storytelling Webinars happened on Tuesday, 18th March, with Kagayi Ngobi – a Ugandan playwright, poet, performer, publisher, and the founding editor of the Kitara […] More
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Press Release: Non-Fiction Literary Awards For African Storytellers Resident In Ghana.
MAKEDA PR is pleased to announce two new literary awards; The annual Nana Koffi Addo Writivism Prize for Non Fiction by African storytellers resident in Ghana and The Abena Korantemaa […] More
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#Writivism2015 Writivism Festival Writing Challenge
Writivism is an annual Literary Festival held every June in Kampala, Uganda featuring leading contemporary African storytellers. Celebrating its 3rd edition this year, the 2015 edition of the festival will […] More
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BECAUSE NGUGI IS NOT DEAD
I first met Ngugi in this physical body in 2015 in Abeokuta, Nigeria, when I was invited by Wole Soyinka’s daughter-in-law, Lola, to be one of the speakers at the […] More
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BOOKS I READ IN 2025 (IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER) OGURU PATRICK ONEN
1. The Concise Mastery by Robert Green. Robert Green outlines a neat way of discovering your life’s purpose and your personal peculiarities that progressively help you develop your professional niche(s). […] More
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International Publishing Fellowship: Day 1.6 – LITERARY GOD MOTHER!
Day 1 came to a close too soon. Well, we did have one more session after Nathan’s, a roundtable discussion on marketing, publicity and events with two independent publishers and […] More
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The Digital Fireplace
Historically, Western narratives demand a neat, sterilized, linear progression: introduction, conflict, climax, resolution. But African storytelling operates on a different frequency. It is a polyrhythmic, multi-dimensional ecosystem. It loops, it […] More
