On 29 October, we organised a creative writing workshop in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Kamerun in which we mentored young Cameroonian writers who write in English and French. This is the first in a series of workshops on writing, journalism, translation and technology which Bakwa magazine plans to organise. You can watch the video below.
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In line with its mission to create a space where high quality writing can be nurtured and published, Bakwa magazine has been involved in a series of off-line activities, notably, a short story competition, a creative writing workshop and a forthcoming reading series. These projects, which will run till 2017, are organised in partnership with
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Sanya Osha Unconcerned with creating fully fledged characters, Sony Labou Tansi’s The Shameful State highlights the farcical and gruesome nature of extreme power. A Review of The Shameful State Sony Labou Tansi, trans. Dominic Thomas, Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2016 In The Shameful State, Sony Labou Tansi charts how farcical and
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Click here for the English version 29.10.2016, 10h00 Goethe-Institut Bakwa magazine lance un appel à candidatures en vue de l’atelier d’écriture créative qui se déroulera le 29 octobre au Goethe-Institut. Ledit atelier, qui s’inscrit dans le cadre de la mission que s’est fixée ce magazine — de promouvoir des plumes émergentes du Cameroun—,
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Cliquez ici pour lire la version en français 29.10.2016, 10am Goethe-Institut Bakwa magazine invites applications for a creative writing workshop which will take place on October 29 at the Goethe-Institut. This workshop, which falls within the framework of Bakwa magazine’s mission to celebrate emerging writers from Cameroon, will incubate 24 writers (who
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Since its inception in 2011, the Africa Centre’s Artist in Residency Programme (AIR) has successfully awarded 39 African artists the chance to take up residencies across the globe. Through continued partnerships with residency programmes in Australia, Brazil, India, Spain, China and the United States, we are proud to offer eight new residency opportunities through the 2016 edition
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Samyra Manka’a discusses with Monique Kwachou, highlighting displacement, the Caine Prize Workshop & other projects. Your first book is a collection of poems titled Writing Therapy. Why the move to prose? Well, there wasn’t an official ‘move’. Poetry still comes easier to me, than prose. My first attempt at prose — the short story I wrote
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