African and Caribbean Literature

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Articles : African and Caribbean Literature

Antiguan-born, Marie Elena-John weaves together West Indian history, African culture, and American sensibilities in her debut novel, "Unburnable."

News : African and Caribbean Literature

Poet Mekdes Jemberu, founder of Ethiopian Women Writers Association, published a new her latest poem book entitled Muga on Monday after a decade-long absence from the publishing industry in the country. (AllAfrica)

The Rotary Club of Arusha has soft-launched a "50 years of service" book. The launch was held at the Kibo Palace hotel on Wednesday last week. (AllAfrica)

GIVEN the choice between a book and a movie I always make the choice of books! While watching movies is invariably easier and less mentally tasking than digesting a book it gives a lot less satisfaction than the vivid imagery that the mind can conjure. (AllAfrica)

Beatrice Lamwaka is the author of Anena's Victory, one of the Fountain Junior Living Youth Series. Her short stories appear in various anthologies and she has founded a book club that will meet once a month to discuss books. She is currently working on a novel. (AllAfrica)

WITH her latest novel Get a Life (2005) Gordimer turns to an entirely new topic, not only in her own oeuvre, but also in South African literature: ecology and environmental protection. (AllAfrica)

Cape Town author Henrietta Rose-Innes has been nominated among a handful of Africa's most talented writers for the Caine Prize. (AllAfrica)

Perhaps the time has come to put an end to the disorder that has hitherto existed in the book and carton production sector. Actors, including importers of books and other paper materials, wholesalers, owners of supermarkets and officials of the Ministry of Mines, Industries and Technological Development, met in Yaoundé yesterday in an important workshop to compare and contrast norms existing in other countries so as to build up standards for Cameroon. (AllAfrica)

The 12 th edition of the "Comar d'or" which concluded on April 25, 2008 with the award giving ceremony enhanced by the presence of the Tunisian singer and musician Zied Gharsa, has revealed a fine crop of writers whose novels are as distinctive as they are original. (AllAfrica)

The Angolan writer Artur Pestana "Pepetela" will launch on May 6 at the Portuguese Cultural Centre, in Luanda, his new novel entitled "O quase fim do Mundo" (The near end of the world). (AllAfrica)

Angolan writer Artur Pestana "Pepetela" is due to release next Tuesday in Luanda his latest book entitled "O Quase Fim do Mundo", Angop has learnt. (AllAfrica)

THE following is the blurb on the back cover of the book and I publish it verbatim - with all the idiosyncracies of grammar as perpetrated by the author and his publisher: (AllAfrica)

Book: Journey to Maleba (AllAfrica)

Title: War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa (AllAfrica)

Twenty two novels in Arabic language and 13 novels in French have been pre-selected for the 2008 edition of Tunisia's most prestigious literary prize, the "Comar d'Or". The prize which is now well established on the Tunisian literary scene, since it has been running for 12 years, was initiated by Mr Rachid Ben Jemia , the CEO of the Comar insurance group , who has financially supported this cultural initiative out of the conviction that reading increases the intellectual potential and value of man. (AllAfrica)

THIS compilation (somehow sounds much better than just "book") by Casper W Erichsen and Larrisa Förster is evocative in its very title. (AllAfrica)

As the world marked Books and Copyright Day, Kenyan writers and publishers may have had little to write home about. (AllAfrica)

Stakeholders in the country yesterday began a three-day National Conference on writing reading textbooks for primary schools in Liberia, the first of its kind in fifteen years (AllAfrica)

As the rest of the world celebrates gains in the publishing industry- only possible where there is respect and reward for copyright owners- Kenyan publishers and authors have little to sing about. (AllAfrica)

Education Minister, Joseph Korto, has challenged and encouraged Liberian writers to take interest and respond meaningfully to the national call for the production of indigenous Liberian instructional materials that would help primary school pupils in the country. (AllAfrica)

Following the publication of his premier book, WORDS OF WISDOM last December, Mr. Shelton Gonkerwon is once again placing his second work, RETURN OF THE COUPLE on the shelf. (AllAfrica)

Title: Credit and Reduction of Poverty in Uganda: Structural Adjustment Reforms in Context (AllAfrica)

Richard Wanambwa caught up with Nathan. R Behangana, a senior lecturer at Kyambogo University and a Quantity Surveyor with Survecon Associates and asked him about the engineering standards in Uganda and his book 'Quantity Surveying in Practice (Measuring of Building Works in East Africa)'. (AllAfrica)

The 26th edition of the Tunis International Book Fair is due to be held from April 25 to May 4, 2008 at El Kram exhibition Hall north of Tunis . The event, which is organized by the Ministry of culture and heritage preservation, is one of the highlights of Tunisian cultural life. (AllAfrica)

A ¢1.5 billion library complex built to serve students and residents of Abuesi and Aboadze, one of the densely populated fishing communities in the Shama District, has now been turned into a white elephant. (AllAfrica)

Early this year RNA Board Deputy Chairman Privat Rutazibwa and Senior Presidential aide Dr. Alfred Ndahiro released a much publicized book 'Hotel Rwanda or the Tutsi Genocide as seen by Hollywood' attacking Mr. Paul Rusesabagina. (AllAfrica)

Minister of State for Education, Dr Jerry Agada yesterday disclosed that efforts to develop a National Book Policy has reached an advanced stage. (AllAfrica)

Recently, a new book was presented documenting the genocide in Nyarubuye, written by Privat Rutazibwa and Paul Rutayisire. While presenting the French-language book Génocide à Nyarubuye, Ombudsman Tito Rutaremara explained that his office also had a role to play in the fourteenth genocide commemoration. (AllAfrica)

The Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (IRST) last week presented the first ever Kinyarwanda to Kinyarwanda and Kinyarwanda to French dictionary. The three-tome volume will also be condensed into a smaller single volume edition. (AllAfrica)

Nigerians have been called upon to encourage writing of books in indigenous languages as one of the tools of consolidating rich culture and values, known with diverse African societies. (AllAfrica)

N. S. Koenings (2008). "Theft-Stories" London, Back Bay Books, 264 pages (plus nine pages end notes), paperback. $13.99. ISBN 0-316-00186-4. Available through Exclusive Books, Riverwalk. (AllAfrica)

Roshan Aara Khan, the meritorious author of the award winning My Grandmother's Cookbook, is the first woman from Botswana, to win the international cookbook competition "Best In the World Gourmand World Cookbook Award". (AllAfrica)

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