By: Samira Sawlani Writer’s note: This list is just a snapshot of the poetry talent currently thriving in the African Continent, not included are the numerous poets whose poetry takes form in African languages or those that are based in Francophone Countries. Across the African continent, poetry has been part of tradition embedded in various … More Ten Contemporary Poets in Sub-Saharan Africa
Writivism had a conversation with Richard Ali A Mutu, a novelist from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, who organized and facilitated the first Writivism workshop in DRC. Ali discussed his love for Kinshasa and its people as well as his choice to write and publish in Lingala, his mother tongue. Valérie: Richard, you’re well known … More #Writivism2016: Interview with Judge Richard Ali A Mutu
Iman Mersal is an Egyptian poet. She is the author of five Arabic poetry collection, her most recent Until We Give Up the Idea of Houses (2013). She has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and has one English collection translated by poet Khaled Mattawa, These Are Not Oranges, My Love: Selected Poems, with another … More “Poetry is when you are at the edge.” Egyptian Poet Iman Mersal reflects on her writing
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)
The Writivism Prizes 