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The Older Generation of African Literary Scholars and their Obnoxious Idea of African Literary Tradition

    In this essay, our Founding Editor, Obinna Udenwe critically analyzes his understanding of the term, African literary tradition, and takes on the older generation of African literary scholars who denigrate contemporary authors and their works   What is African literary tradition? This question was posed to a panel of distinguished academics at a 2018 joint conference organised by the Association of Nigerian Authors in conjunction with the Alex Ekwueme-Federal University Ndufu Alike Ikwo in Ebonyi State on…

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The Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize has Awarded $38, 000 for Writings in African Literature

  In this op-ed, Lizzy Attree and Mukoma Wa Ngugi, co-founders of the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize, explore the origin of the prize, its pillars, why the interest in African indigenous languages and their vision for using the prize to strengthen African cultures and its literary tradition   We launched the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African literature in 2014 and have spent the last four years building the Prize into an institution we can be proud of. The…

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