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August 7, 2021

African Poetry Digital Portal awarded a $750k

Mellon grant to transform African poetry research, scholarship The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $750,000 grant to an international team led by Kwame Dawes, professor of English, and Lorna…
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August 6, 2021

Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze dies aged 65

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July 1, 2021

Nick Makoha wins The Ivan Juritz Prize

A Low-Pressure System is part of sequence that explores the Entebbe hijacking in 1976. It is a dramatic retelling of those events, paralleled against Nick’s life, and key historic events and…
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