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Let’s talk! Invitation: Conversation with Culture Africa Magazine Issue 1 Authors – this December
Let's talk! Invitation: Conversation with cultureafrica magazine authors at October 12 at 7pm EAT We see us in a google meet. Here is the link: https://meet.google.com/pxm-pbvk-dcy It's free.
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Die Landfrage_The Question of Land: Why Land is so important to Kenyans_engl/deutsch
In African society, land has always been a constant feature. Land ownership in pre-colonial Africa, equated to wealth, identity and a source of livelihood. An African owned a piece of land and together with his family, was identified with that piece of land. Land also served the purpose of growing food that would feed your family hence the reason why planting and harvest seasons in many African societies are revered. So are market days where you could sell your produce in exchange for other produce. And finally, owning land ultimately meant that your male children were assured of an inheritance.
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Dive into Culture Africa 1st Issue – Non-Fiction from six African countries
Dive into Culture Africa 1st Issue – Non-Fiction and Art from six African countries Where The Ghosts Hide By Mariam Hassan “The answer found me in a bucolic dream where the sun rose so high and bled red on my brown skin, I watched the palm trees wave between my fingers and listened to the wind blowing under my earlobes. The bits of myself I managed to salvage had been taken aback and replanted in a house by the water where every morning I was greeted in my mother tongue.” Navigating “It is Well” as a Nigerian Immigrant By Temitope Famakinwa “The other time on a call, a close family friend was eating pounded yam, unwrapped from a banana…
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Non–Fiction As Cultural Anthropology – Culture Africa First Literary Magazine out now engl/deutsch
As you contemplate whether to engage with Culture Africa Issue 1, consider that you are not merely encountering literary works, but engaging with a people’s anthropology presented through one of the most creative and intellectually rigorous forms available. You are, in effect, witnessing the foundational moments of a platform whose existence is firmly dedicated to becoming the definitive space for such discourse.
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African Author Spotlight – Interview with Peter Ngila Njeri – Engl/Ger
AFRICAN AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT – AN INTERVIEW WITH PETER NGILA NJERI By Lorna Likiza Peter Ngila Njeri is a Kenyan Writer who won the James Currey Prize for African Literature in September 2023 for his novel manuscript, The Legend Of Beach House. This is an annual award given to the best unpublished work of fiction written in English by an African writer and named after James Currey, a renowned publisher of African literature. He is an Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni and Ebedi Fellow. In this interview with Culture Africa Associate Editor, Lorna Likiza, Peter delves deeper into the writing process of his winning manuscript and shares why he feels literary prizes are essential for writers. Lorna Likiza: Hi Peter, welcome…
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Ally Abdallah: The Book, the Festival, Zanzibar and the Nobel Prize winner – Interview engl/ger
It is a great event, a great surprise that Ally Abdalla has managed to pull off. For the first literature festival in Zanzibar, Ally was able to attract no less than the current winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Abdulraznak Gurnah. For Gurnah, who is from Zanzibar but had to leave the island in the 1960s, it is a triumphant event to be back. At the Heroe Book Fair in Mombasa, I spoke with author, filmmaker and organizer of the new cultural event in Zanzibar, Ally Abdalla.
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A phantastic Mombasa journey: The House of Rust – Book Review by Lorna Likiza – engl/ger
A phantastic Mombasa journey: "The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadhrami girl in Mombasa. When her fisherman father goes missing, Aisha takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton to rescue him. She is guided by a talking scholar’s cat (and soon crows, goats, and other animals all have their say, too). On this journey Aisha meets three terrifying sea monsters." (Graywolf Press) Khadija Abdallah Bajaber's, THE HOUSE OF RUST, is proof of that the fantasy genre has a future in Kenyan literature.
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Pwani Tribune – Passion for Coastal Culture and History Interview with/mit Albert Mwamburi engl/ger
I recognize the need of bringing these other Coastal cultures to prominence. The kind of prominence that Swahili culture enjoys. And there’s actually so much to write about them. When you mention that the Swahili historical evidence is readily available, I would like to bring to your attention that there are also some caves in Taita Taveta County that very few Kenyans know about. These are the kinds of things I strive to highlight.
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Kenyan Cuisine has a lot to offer: Interview with Yvonne Mula
Aus unserer Reihe über afrikanische Kochkunst besuchen wir heute das Restaurant Mikaye in Mombasa. Yvonne Mula wird im Interview ihre Philosophie der afrikanischen Küche erzählen.
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Gede Ruins – Digging through History – Ausgrabungen in Gede/Kenia
In two parts, Lorna Likiza explores the remains of an ancient Swahili City at the Kenyan Coast, with a focus on the ongoing archaeological project at the historical site, being carried out by Prof. Chapurukha Kusimba.
