Category: News
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Announcing the LOATAD Black Atlantic Residents 2024!
Congratulations to our 2024 LOATAD Black Atlantic Residents! We received 442 applications from across Africa and the Diaspora for the 12 places on the residency. Get to know the exceptional writers and thinkers who’ll be joining us at LOATAD this year to grapple with the question, What is Africa to Me? individually and in community:…
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LOATAD Founder, Sylvia Arthur, is the 2023 Brittle Paper Literary Person of the Year
From Brittle Paper: Sylvia Arthur is the 2023 Brittle Paper African Literary Person of the Year for her outstanding work as the founder of the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (@loatad_org) in Accra, Ghana. She is the 9th honoree of the award. @NnediOkorafor was the first to receive the award in 2015 and since then it…
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Apply to the LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency 2024
Are you a writer of African descent from: Does your work grapple with the complexities and nuances of what it means to be African/Black in the 21st century? What is Africa to you? The Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora is thrilled to announce our new residency programme that brings together writers from across…
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Announcing our 2023 West African Writers Residents!
Radical. African. Lit. We are delighted to announce the writers who have been selected to participate in the 2023 West African Writers (WAW) Residency at LOATAD in Accra. We received 160 applications from eight countries across the region. Thank you to everyone who applied! Find out more about our talented cohort below. TOP ROW, LEFT…
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Open Call: Apply to LOATAD’s 2023 West African Writers Residency
Applications are open for the second edition of LOATAD’s 2023 West African Writers (WAW) Residency. From now until 6 August, writers who are both citizens of and resident in any one of 16 West African countries can apply to spend one month at LOATAD in Accra, Ghana, between August and December 2023 to work on…
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SCREENING: Walter Rodney – What They Don’t Want You To Know
The Library of Africa and The African Diaspora has teamed up with U.K.-based Decolonising the Archive (DTA) to bring this very special and insightful film to Ghanaian shores + Director Q&A w/ Arlen Harris alongside a Groundings reasoning over palm wine. JOIN US ON 29 APRIL, 2023 AT 5 PM AT LOATAD IN ADENTA-FRAFRAHA, ACCRA,…
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Winner: Adinkra Poetry Prize 2023: Estella Apenuvor for Odo Nnyew Fie Kwan
Kaya – noun. meaning – load, luggage, burden. language – Hausa (Ghana) When we are bored, we count mother’s ribs and argue about who got it right. I always win. My cracked heels sing lullabies. I never fall asleep. These homeless truck pushers give us 10 cedis after they rape us. When we get to…
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Winner: Adinkra Poetry Prize 2023: Jonathan Tetteh Kwao for in a Twistocratic Republic
the wheel will also be safe in the hands of an astrologer: he’ll pray the galaxy on our sixth presidential podium- & tell us our fate. my friend wept a “Haircut” he did not give his head for/ would’ve espied this before his Titanic sank the iceberg. he sure will tell us myriad ill monkeys…
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Winner: Adinkra Poetry Prize 2023: Kwame Brenya for Gye Nyame
What the judges said Gye Nyame makes use of all the nuances one can eke out of the apparently simple, very much in the way that proverbs work, covering environmental abuses, a complicit government and the social struggles of a religion-muted people, in less than a minute. Meet the Poet Kwame Brenya is a Ghanaian…
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Ananse Ntentan by Akotowaa (Adinkra Poetry Prize 2023 Runner-Up)
One day, the trickster will tire of being a cautionary tale. He will drop his disguises and wear his face so well that villagers see it and quail. Woe unto those who rewrote the lore to declare conformity king. Cleverness is not punished by its offspring, and the trickster tires of being called a sin. …
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