So there we are. It’s done and it’s dusted and a great deal of bubbly has been consumed. Of course, I am talking (finally) about the Sunday Times Literary Awards. In case you haven’t heard, the prestigious Alan Paton Award went to Bongani Ngqulunga for The Man Who Founded the ANC: A Biography of Pixley […]
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It’s not a late night – the Sunday Times Literary Awards shortlist announcements. The room, in an eyrie above Empire Road, was abuzz, though, because it’s an evening that rocks. And she saw me before I saw her. There’s no mistaking Yewande Omotoso. She is over six foot and she towers over me. “I haven’t […]
Africa Day is the annual commemoration of the 1963 founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), which was reconstituted as the Africa Union (AU) and re-launched in Durban on 9 July 2002. The Union, comprising 53 member states, enables its members to collectively address the challenges the continent faces, from armed conflict to climate […]