Episode 31: Goodbye Ama Ata Aidoo, interviewing Abdulrazak Gurnah Writing Africa Podcast

Welcome to episode 29 of the Writing Africa
Podcast. It’s a blockbuster one as we say goodbye to author, poet, playwright,
and academic Ama Ata Aidoo and South African writer, political analyst,
journalist, and broadcaster Eusebius McKaiser.

We will be chatting about the prize the
Kendeka Prize, Arablit Short Story Prize, and the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary
Festival (BCLF) Short Fiction Story Contest as well as we recommend that you
read Caribbean books this Read Caribbean Month.

We have an interview this week. We caught
up with Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2022. Apologies
for the quality of the interview sound. The interview was conducted in a corner
at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Thank you so much Frankfurter Buchmesse for making
the interview happen.