Africa’s literary greats come together at a festival that refocuses African writing to rememory, memorialisation and remembering histories, and curating futures.
In the third and final part of a review of Lawino’s People: The Acholi of Uganda by Okot p’Bitek and Frank Knowles Girling, A.K. Kaiza concludes...
In the first of a three-part series, A.K. Kaiza reflects on the renowned author and wonders whether Okot p’Bitek might have published other works as powerful...
If Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s notion of decolonisation incorporates the linguistic perspective, Dani Nabudere’s project, on the other hand, takes in the fundamental philosophical component as an...
Is there the political will, as there was with smallpox, to vaccinate every human against COVID-19, before it mutates into something far worse?
What if you survey African literature professors to find out which works and writers are most regularly taught? Only a few canonical ones continue to dominate...
Leila Aboulela and Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, although from two different faith traditions, use fiction as a conduit to re-affirm these faith traditions, one Muslim, and the...
A tribute to the legendary Kiswahili literature icon, Ken Walibora
African mother tongue languages are increasingly being abandoned, with sub-Saharan Africa being one of the regions with the most endangered languages. But the solution will not...
Billy Kahora is a writer of the impact of an age in Kenyan history. In his writings, you piece together the etymology and see that at...
The literary world has lost yet another icon. Another healer of wounds is no longer with us. But Morrison’s language and words will always comfort us,...
Professor Austin Bukenya, a poet, playwright, novelist and academic speaks with The Elephant.
