Tag: english literature

Celebrating 21st-century African Literatures online exhibit live!

Posted on by Bee Lehman
arcgis screenshot of cover for exhibit
Screenshot of opening image in online exhibit

To my delight, we’ve made our online exhibit Celebrating 21-century African Literatures exhibit live online through an ArcGIS StoryMap!

map of Africa with aggregated publisher points
Thumbnail associated with publisher map, displaying some of the publishers we collect from. Link goes to interactive map on ArcGIS.

Alongside the celebration of the many, phenomenal books we display, we’ve also made material available about what kinds of publishers UC Berkeley Library has been collecting from across the continent.

Let me (Bee, the Lit Librarian) know if you have questions or note that there is information missing. Our thanks for to the many artists, authors, and magazine editors who’ve made this possible.

African Short Stories Prize Short List

Posted on by Bee Lehman

five portrait images of Caine short list authorsThis year’s short list for the Caine Prize for African Writing is rather phenomenal. Here’s the list with access to most of the stories full text:

  1. Tryphena Yeboah (Ghana) for ‘The Dishwashing Women’, Narrative Magazine (Fall 2022) – magazine website
  2. Nadia Davids (South Africa) for ‘Bridling’, The Georgia Review (2023) – magazine website
  3. Samuel Kolawole (Nigeria) for ‘Adjustment of Status’, New England Review, Vol. 44, #3 (Summer
    2023) – pdf of story from Project Muse
  4. Uche Okonkwo (Nigeria) for ‘Animals’, ZYZZYVA (2024) – magazine website
  5. Pemi Aguda (Nigeria) for ‘Breastmilk’, One Story, Issue #227 (2021) – excerpt on magazine website

The Judges–pictured below–have released a few statements about the submissions and a few of their thoughts on the range in the official press release.

five portraits of judges for 2024 Caine Short Story prize

As a head’s up, next is the Caine Prize 25th anniversary. There should be some exciting events!

Cheers,

Bee