Category: News
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We’re on a break!
After a busy seven months, we are taking a well-earned break! Though the library is closed, we will continue to be open online, posting news, happenings, and opportunities on our social media pages. We’ll brb. See you soon! Image: Nipah Dennis
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The 2022 LOATAD WAW Residency Comes to an End
Our 2022 West African Writers (WAW) Residency is officially over! What a joy it’s been these past five months to be in community with writers, thinkers, and all-round good people from across the region! Since February, we’ve hosted 18 writers, including two from our Digital Residency, at LOATAD in Accra. For most, this was their […]
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Open Call: Residency and Production Programme for West African and Scottish Writers
Six mid-career/established writers from West Africa and Scotland will be given the space and resources to create new work during two exciting cross-cultural residencies in the Scottish Highlands and in Ghana. Writers will also take part in a supporting digital programme of connection, which will expand the scope of the residencies. and facilitate the production […]
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Work to begin on construction of new eco-library in Nsutam
Work on the construction of a new mudLIBRARY, an eco-friendly library that makes the most out of materials from the environment in which it is set, is due to begin next week (11 July). The library is a partnership between Austrian architectural NGO, Archifair, Ghanaian construction company, Hive Earth, and LOATAD’s #BookDropGhana campaign.
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Mme Diop Wane of Presence Africaine visits LOATAD
It was an honour to welcome Mme Marie-Aida Diop Wane to LOATAD last Wednesday. Mme Diop Wane is a translator and the daughter of the legendary Alioune Diop 🇸🇳 (1910-1980), writer, editor, and founder of the pioneering pan-African journal Présence Africaine, and a central figure in the Négritude movement. Mme Diop Wane gave a talk […]
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