Jessica Powers

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@jlpowers and @kenechiuzor on how Catalyst and Iskanchi Press are bringing African writers to wider audiences. lithub.com/how-catalyst-a…

Starting soon: Writing a Greener World: How African Writers are Responding the Climate Crisis, our second #ReadingAfrica Week panel. We start at 12PM ET, register for the event here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Today's AiW Team pick,#6 of #ReadingAfrica week (with @catalyst_press), is @Duncan_M_Yoon's *China in 20th and 21st Century African Literature*, examining the "controversial symbol of China" through Africa's literary creative voices, as far back as the Cold War and beyond...

"Now I have decided. I will travel to search for her in every place." For #ReadingAfrica week, we're returning to this work by @AnnElSafiWriter (tr. @nariology) from our collection "Coming into Focus: Sudanese Women Writers" buff.ly/3t1oC38

Chaos in Kinshasa, by Barly Baruti & Thierry Bellefroid, tr. Ivanka Hahnenberger. A Harlem gangster's trip to Central Africa to attend the legendary 1974 Ali-Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle" boxing match becomes a one-way ticket to the seedy underground of Zaire. #ReadingAfrica

In our latest interview, publicist and South African office head for @catalyst_press, SarahBelle Selig, speaks to @BijlKris about #ReadingAfrica Week (3-9 December), challenges and opportunities in indie publishing, and much more!

“Every so often a name spreads so far out that an entire community comes to believe nobody else is entitled to bear it. “ We’re celebrating #ReadingAfrica week with story by @bboris_diop (tr. from Wolof by El Hadji Moustapha Diop & @CoulibalyBojana). buff.ly/3Gw3UeO

"I see an Africa that writes, & publishes, for Africa and beyond, with the focus on supporting the African way of writing and storytelling" Mutesi Gasana, Ubuntu Publishers @jlpowers leads a discussion @AfricainWords with African publishers #ReadingAfrica africainwords.com/2023/12/06/qa-…

@UnivNebPress @AfricanPoetryBF That looks good.

Celebrate #ReadingAfrica week with MINE MINE MINE (@AfricanPoetryBF), a personal narration of Uhuru Portia Phalafala’s family’s experience of the migrant labor system brought on by the gold mining industry in Johannesburg, South Africa. bit.ly/3QWHvMo

Spud: A Wickedly Funny Novel, by John van de Ruit, featured during our 2nd #IntlYALitMonth, curated by @lhoiseth. This book is so funny and so beloved it's been made into a movie with John Cleese. glli-us.org/2022/05/08/int… #IntlYALit #SouthAfricanYALit #Comedy #ReadingAfrica

Crooks and Straights, by Masha du Toit. Those who are fans of fantasy and young magicians' coming-of-age titles will enjoy this book. Read more: glli-us.org/2022/05/30/int… #ReadingAfrica #SouthAfricanYALit #IntlYALit

Lit Hub: Books that travel: a report from the 2023 Nairobi International Book Fair lithub.com/books-that-tra… #ReadingAfrica #AfricanLit #Nairobi #Kenya

To celebrate #ReadingAfrica Week, @catalyst_press has organised three online events to spotlight African literature starting today. All events are free to attend and held online, from 5 – 8 December 2023. Learn more: bit.ly/47JPUdc

Celebrate #ReadingAfrica week with YOUR BODY IS WAR by @MShiferraw which contemplates the psychology of the female human body, looking at the ways it exists and moves in the world, refusing to be contained in the face of grief and trauma. @AfricanPoetryBF bit.ly/40ZxVNf

THE FUTURE HAS AN APPOINTMENT WITH THE DAWN wrestles with the ethnic violence and civil war that dominated life in West Africa’s Ivory Coast in the first decade of the millennium. #ReadingAfrica Save during our Holiday sale: bit.ly/UNPholiday2023

Jen Thorpe aims to read every book written by #SouthAfricanWomxnWriters. We went along on part of the journey! This is an incredibly comprehensive look at titles from 2015-2021. Learn more here: glli-us.org/2021/01/30/sou… #ReadingAfrica #SouthAfricanLit @Jen_Thorpe

Igbo is a Niger-Congo language spoken by the Igbo people, a once autonomous people who live in Nigeria, Cameroon & Equatorial Guinea. We're proud to publish nearly two dozen titles in this important African language. ohbd-rsgbooks.com/catalog/filter… #ReadingAfrica #ReadingAfricaWeek

Team pick #3 reopens a plagiarism scandal & reexamines the place of African writing in its light: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's magical La Plus Secrete Memoire Des Hommes, + trans. @laravergnaud, The Most Secret Memory of Men penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734606/t… #ReadingAfrica week - @catalyst_press

(BC somehow we were asleep on Sunday) Today we've 2x AiW picks of 2023's reads for @catalyst_press' #ReadingAfrica week - Day 2's is @iwalesino's Everything is Sampled - a faceted long view on the production of African arts & letters in the digital age: iupress.org/9780253065667/…