Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, speaking in Glossing Africa, questions the practice of briefly defining, footnoting, or otherwise clarifying the usage of indigenous terms in one’s fiction writing: There’s a part of me that just deeply resents the fact that there’re many parts of the world where the fiction that comes from there is read as anthropology rather … Continue reading 非漂出版专讯: 2017.9 AfroLit4China Newsbriefs
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非漂出版专讯: 2017.7 AfroLit4China Newsbriefs
Cartographer Alexander Akin asserts that an ancient Chinese map of Africa — proudly cited by China as proof of early Sino-African ties — may be a copy of a Korean version, and not based on the expeditions of the explorer Zheng He (1371–1435). The way media in other parts of the world — including China … Continue reading 非漂出版专讯: 2017.7 AfroLit4China Newsbriefs
非漂出版专讯: 2017.4 AfroLit4China Newsbriefs
Chimamanda Ngozi, the Afropolitan: . . . because she has walked so confidently into the realm of non-fiction, and has agreed on multiple occasions, to take up the mantle of “spokesperson,” there is an increasing expectation that she is up to the task; that she can in fact authentically speak on behalf of the fans who … Continue reading 非漂出版专讯: 2017.4 AfroLit4China Newsbriefs
非漂出版专讯: 2017.3 AfroLit4China Newsbriefs
Call for Papers Workshop on Strategies for the Promotion of African Language Literature. To be held at the University of Vienna May 2-4. Deadline for abstracts: March 15, 2017. Topics J.O.J. Nwachukwu-Agbada's Nigerian Written Literature Since 1914: . . . to write a piece of African literature without the injection of African traditional materials is … Continue reading 非漂出版专讯: 2017.3 AfroLit4China Newsbriefs
非漂出版专讯: 2017.2 AfroLit4China Newsbriefs
Potpourri Five greatest Old African novels to read before you die . . . cheveux naturels in Sénégal, Men may say they don’t like it and of course they hate the cost but they are attracted to the look . . . resident Chinese in Africa by the numbers . . . interview with Abubakar Adam … Continue reading 非漂出版专讯: 2017.2 AfroLit4China Newsbriefs
非漂出版专讯: 2017.1 AfroLit4China Newsbriefs
Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built is the business book that most inspired Nigeria’s Iyinoluwa ‘E’ Aboyeji — co-founder of Flutterwave and Andela — last year: There are so many parallels between the intrigues of startups in China and our nascent African Startup ecosystem, he says. Evan Mwangi reviews John Mugane’s The Story of Swahili and … Continue reading 非漂出版专讯: 2017.1 AfroLit4China Newsbriefs
Quote of the Week: On Swahili Literature Denigrating Slaves
Much of Swahili literature, including proverbs and canonical works like Utendi wa Mwana Kupona, denigrate watumwa (slaves) as if blacks were not forcibly captured, raped, castrated, and uprooted from their cultures. The casualness with which slavery is treated, even by progressive poets like Muyaka, is the biggest scandal in Swahili letters. (Evan Mwangi, in his … Continue reading Quote of the Week: On Swahili Literature Denigrating Slaves
非漂出版专讯: 2016.11 AfroLit4China Newsbriefs
Hard times for Africans in Guangzhou amid crackdown. Complains one resident of ‘Little Africa’: It seems they want the Africans to leave this area . . . every month now, I have to go to the police station [to register], every month. I feel like I'm in jail. The judging panel for the 2016 Etisalat Prize … Continue reading 非漂出版专讯: 2016.11 AfroLit4China Newsbriefs
非漂出版专讯: 2016.10 AfroLit4China Newsbriefs
欢迎访问关注非漂 [Fēi Piāo]新设的微博，liberation 时代。 Season of Crimson Blossoms, a novel by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, wins the 2016 Nigeria Prize for Literature, worth US$100,000. Writes author and critic Toni Kan: I was fascinated because I grew up in the North, first Kano and then Jos, but I was discovering something new about the North in Abubakar’s … Continue reading 非漂出版专讯: 2016.10 AfroLit4China Newsbriefs
Bruce Humes 