Mamle Kabu
The third edition of Literary Crossroads, which encompasses conversations and readings with African Writers, will take place at the Goethe-Institut in Accra on Wednesday, August 28, 2019.
Authors for the evening are the South African novelist/journalist Zukiswa Wanner and Ghanaian/German writer and consultant Mamle Kabu, who will be reading from the books alongside chats and discussions with the audience.
Wanner’s novels have been shortlisted for various awards – these include South African Literary Awards and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
In 2015, she won the K. Sello Duiker Memorial Literary Award for ‘London Cape Town Joburg’ and was named on the Africa 39, a list of 39 sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define trends in African literature.
A prolific journalist, essayist and short story writer, she has been a contributor to a wide range of newspapers and magazines, including ‘Enkare Review’, ‘The Observer’, ‘The Guardian’, ‘Sunday Independent’, ‘City Press’, ‘Mail & Guardian’, ‘La Republica’, ‘Open Society’, among others.
Author of the award-winning young adult novel ‘Kaya Girl’, which won the 2011 Burt Award (2009), Kabu was also nominated for the Caine Prize for African Writing for her story ‘The End of Skill’.
Currently a co-director of the Writers Project of Ghana, she recently moderated a workshop for young adult writers in Ghana, which was held under the auspices of the Goethe-Institut. She has equally written poetry, two screenplays and is working on a new novel. Kabu, who is also a specialist on development issues, is a resident writer on the University of Iowa’s (USA) International Writing Programme residency. Goethe-Institut Ghana is supporting the event.