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2016 Abena Korantemaa Writivism Prize for Oral History Guidelines (CLOSED)

March 4, 2016

The Abena Korantemaa Writivism Prize for Oral History is an annual award for Oral History by emerging African writers and storytellers resident in Ghana administered by the Center for African Cultural Excellence (CACE). The prize is aimed at celebrating storytelling through oral means and encouraging the recognition of the oral tradition as history. Interested entrants … More 2016 Abena Korantemaa Writivism Prize for Oral History Guidelines (CLOSED)

2016 Kofi Addo Writivism Prize for Non Fiction Guidelines (closed)

March 4, 2016

The Kofi Addo Writivism Prize for Non Fiction is an annual award for non-fiction by emerging African writers resident in Ghana administered by the Center for African Cultural Excellence (CACE). The prize shall in future years widen its eligibility criteria to include non-residents of Ghana but for now seeks to remedy the prominence gap of … More 2016 Kofi Addo Writivism Prize for Non Fiction Guidelines (closed)

Writivism 2016: Interview with Mamadou Diallo

February 29, 2016

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