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This time Panashe Chigumadzi is in conversation with Ghanaian-born, Senegal-based writer Ayesha Harruna Attah. She is the author of the novels "The Harmattan Rain", "Saturday's Shadows", "The Hundred Wells of Salaga", "The Deep Blue Between" and "Zainab Takes New York". In her work she explores filling the gaps that historiography has left with Black women's histories through fiction. Find the New Daughters of Africa Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.
New Daughters of Africa Podcast - S01 E04 - Ayesha Harruna Attah
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Our literature Ambassador Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako spoke with Maneo Refiloe Mohale on April 30th at 11am Berlin time (CET). In order to shorten the wait until the African Book Festival in August, Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako hosts a monthly digital talk called ALEXANDRA SPEAKS with our festival guests. This time she will speak with Maneo Refiloe Mohale: Maneo Refiloe Mohale is a South African editor, feminist writer and poet. Their work has appeared in various local and international publications, including Jalada, Prufrock, The Beautiful Project, The Mail & Guardian, spectrum.za, and others. They’ve served as a contributing editor for The New York Times and i-D, among others. They were Bitch Media’s first Global Feminism Writing Fellow in their inaugural 2016 class, where they wrote on race, media, sexuality and survivorship. They have been long-listed twice for the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology Award, and their debut collection of poetry, Everything is a Deathly Flower was published with uHlanga Press in September 2019. In 2020, they were shortlisted for the Ingrid Jonker Poetry Prize, the youngest finalist of that year. In 2021, Everything is a Deathly Flower won the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry.
Alexandra Speaks with Maneo Mohale
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In order to shorten the wait until the African Book Festival in August, @aab_alexandraspeaks hosts a monthly digital talk called ALEXANDRA SPEAKS with our festival guests. Next month, we are excited for her and you to get to know these two South African writers joining us in August at the African Book Festival 2022 Bongani Kona is a writer, editor and lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the Western Cape. His work has appeared in a variety of places including Chimurenga, Safe House: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction, The Daily Assortment of Astonishing Things and Other Stories, The Baffler and BBC Radio 4. He was awarded the Ruth First Fellowship in 2019 and shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2016. Most recently, he has edited Our Ghosts were Once People (2021). Dr. Athambile Masola is a poet, writer, researcher and teacher. Her debut collection of poems, Ilifa (Uhlanga Press, 2021) are written in isiXhosa. Her most recent work is a series of three pre-teen books, Imbokodo: Women who shape us (Jacana Media, 2022); a collection of 30 stories about South African women. Athambile teaches in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. visit www.africanbookfestival.de for updates
Alexandra Speaks with Dr. Athambile Masola & Bongani Kona
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Die angolanische Schriftstellerin Yara Nakahanda Monteiro ist zu Gast in der Buchhandlung InterKontinental, um ihren bewegenden Debütroman "Schwerkraft der Tränen" vorzustellen, der am 8.3.22 im Haymonverlag in einer Übersetzung von Michael Kegler erschienen ist. Moderation: Karla Kutzner Zwischen Angola und Portugal, zwischen Rebellion und Tragödie findet ein Bruch statt - einer, der eine neue Welt eröffnet, der zeigt, was uns ausmacht. Die intimste Wahrheit ist diese: Vitória kann ihre Mutter nicht für sich beanspruchen. 1965. Angola. Der Freiheitskrieg gegen die portugiesische Vorherrschaft nimmt seinen Lauf. Mittendrin: Rosa Chitula und ihre Familie. Viele suchen Sicherheit und Stabilität in Lissabon, verlassen das Land. Doch Rosa rebelliert, will kämpfen - und wird das Gesicht der Unabhängigkeitsbewegung. Die zweijährige Vitória, Rosas Tochter, flieht mit ihren Großeltern nach Portugal und dann - nichts. Ein Schnitt, der nicht heilen wird. 2003. Lissabon. Vitória Queiroz da Fonsecas Leben besteht aus Erinnerungen: Da sind Bilder, Gerüche, der Geschmack von Sauermilch. Da sind die Säulen eines Traumas, das Vitória nicht überwinden kann: zu wissen, dass ihre Mutter ein Land mehr liebte als ihre Tochter. Denn wie damit umgehen, wenn da niemand ist, der Antworten auf die eigenen Fragen geben kann. Wie sieht das Leben aus, wenn man in einen Kampf um Freiheit hineingeboren wird, der nicht der eigene ist? Wie verstehen, dass die Geschichte übermächtig geworden ist, sich hineingedrängt hat zwischen sich selbst und die Möglichkeiten, die man vielleicht gehabt hätte? Vitória kennt ihre Mutter nicht, kennt ihren Kampf nicht. Aber sie trägt die Revolte in sich, genauso wie Rosa. Sie lässt Lissabon, ihren Verlobten und Job hinter sich, getrieben von dem Drang, sich selbst zu begegnen. Doch das Luanda des 21. Jahrhunderts besteht aus Kontrasten, ist abweisend und Heimat zugleich. Hier gehören die Menschen einem Land, das nicht immer das ihre war, das nicht immer das ihre ist. Als Vitória in Huambo die Einzigartigkeit von Angola entdeckt, sich selbst auf der Spur, trifft sie auf die Geister einer fremden Vergangenheit und muss lernen, dass es Risse gibt, die zu tief sind, um noch geflickt zu werden. Wir schreiben Formen der Gewalt. In einer klaren Sprache erzählt Yara Monteiro von der Gewalt der Geschichte. Einer Gewalt, die wir spüren, aber nicht aufhalten können. Die vergangen ist, aber für immer bestehen bleiben wird. Wie fühlt es sich an, nach Wurzeln zu greifen, ohne zu wissen, ob man sie fest im Boden verankern oder ausreißen will? Und was bedeutet Freiheit, wenn sie alles ist und gleichzeitig nicht das, was wir für uns gefordert haben? Ein Debüt, das fesselt: kompromisslos. Das Buch ist hier erhältlich: https://www.interkontinental.org/shop/item/9783709981535/schwerkraft-der-tranen-von-yara-nakahanda-monteiro-gebundenes-buch
Lesung: Schwerkraft der Tränen mit Yara Nakahanda Monteiro
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Hamburg-based moderator and InterKontinental literary ambassador Alexandra Antwi-Boasiako and Lidudumalingani, curator of the 2022 African Book Festival in Berlin, launch the new online series ALEXANDRA SPEAKS, where they talk about his literary work, photography and what we can look forward to in regards to the upcoming festival. (Save the Date: 26th-28th August 2022 @ Napoleon Komplex in Berlin Friedrichshain)
ALEXANDRA SPEAKS with Lidudumalingani
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This time Panashe Chigumadzi interviews the Angolan-Portuguese literary scholar, novelist and essaiyst Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida. She is the author of ten books, among them Esse Cabelo that has been translated into English and published as That Hair in the US in 2018. A German translation of A Visão das Plantas under the title Im Auge der Pflanzen is forthcoming in 2022. Listen in for a lusophone perspective on Black womanhood, the craft of writing, as well as the relationship between writing and freedom. Subscribe and listen to this and all other episodes on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. Get the New Daughters of Africa Anthology as well as Djaimilia's books at www.interkontinental.org
New Daughters of Africa Podcast - S01 E03 - Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
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A new episode of the New Daughters of Africa Podcast is out now. Listen to an inspiring conversation between @panashechigumadzi and Carolyn Cooper, Professor Emerita of Cultural and Literary Studies, about Black womanhood, Dancehall culture in academia and the links between Africa and its Diaspora in the Caribbean. Listen and subscribe wherever you find your podcasts: https://anchor.fm/new-daughters-of-africa/episodes/Season-01-Episode-02---Carolyn-Cooper-e1d13o8
New Daughters of Africa Podcast S01 E02 - Carolyn Cooper
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Host Panashe Chigumadzi interviews Margaret Busby, the trailblazing editor of the anthologies Daughters of Africa (1992) and New Daughters of Africa (2018, Myriad Editions) about her background, the challenges she faced as a Black woman in publishing in the UK as well as her visions. The podcast is also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other popular platforms. This show is a production of InterKontinental funded by Berlin's Senate Department for Culture and Europe. Get the book at www.interkontinental.org
New Daughters of Africa Podcast - S01 E01 Margaret Busby
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As an homage to the ground-breaking (New) Daughters of Africa anthologies compiling writing by women of African descent across centuries and continents edited by Margaret Busby, host Panashe Chigumadzi, one of the 'New Daughters' and author of Sweet Medicine and These Bones Will Rise Again will be in conversation with fellow Black women writers across continents, genres, and generations. This is a production of InterKontinental e.V. and made possible with funding by the Berlin City Senate Department for Culture and Europe. Get the books at www.interkontinental.org. Listen and subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you like to listen.
S01 E00 New Daughters of Africa Podcast - Trailer (No Video)
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