Writivism 2016: Interview with Mamadou Diallo

Mamadou Diallo is a Senegalese writer and founder of RECIDIVE, an editor of Vives-Voix, one-time winner of 2015 Ake Prize for Prose and the Francophone facilitator of Writivism’s workshop on fiction and non-fiction in Dakar. He is on Writivism’s 2016 panel of judges for the Short Story Prize. In this conversation, he speaks about himself … More Writivism 2016: Interview with Mamadou Diallo

Afro-Arab Fiction in Translation: 5 Must Read Novels from 2015 and 5 to Look Forward to in 2016

 By M. Lynx Qualey Arabic literature is often seen as something that belongs to the “Middle East,” not to Africa. This sharp distinction is not just a recent invention, but an impoverishing one, and one that novelists have continually subverted. Sudanese writers like Hammour Ziada (Longing of the Dervish) or Amir Tag El-Sir (French Perfume, … More Afro-Arab Fiction in Translation: 5 Must Read Novels from 2015 and 5 to Look Forward to in 2016