We join in mourning Prof. Ama Ata Aidoo, a remarkable stateswoman and literary icon whose life's work and stories contributed greatly to her community and beyond. Our deepest condolences to her family and the people of Ghana.
Rest In Peace🕊️
Cassava Republic
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Cassava Republic
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Publishing the best writing from the Global Black world. Curating a conversation about yesterday, today and tomorrow. #readcassava
- “African writing is not a genre. It encapsulates different genres. I want African writing and writers to feel that they have the freedom to write whatever they want to write without feeling they have to represent a continent.” huckmagazine.com/books-2/inside…
- Everyone gets a jab as @elnathanjohn takes no prisoners on this battle to hold up Nigeria without dressing! The #BecomingNigerian book is a hilariously provoking read sure to crack your ribs and leave your reality checked. Order a copy by clicking on the link! Please Retweet!
- If you love books so much, pay for them! Support creatives. Stop illegal distribution of e-books.
- Excited to announce that @CassavaRepublic has acquired ‘A Stranger’s Pose,’ a narrative non-fiction by Nigerian writer Emmanuel Iduma, about his travels across several African cities!!! 🗣 Read 👉🏾 cassavarepublic.biz/blogs/main/cas…
- Congratulations to our very own Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, the 2018 Brittle Paper African Literary Person of the Year! We’re so proud of you Bibi, this is hugely well-deserved!! 🍾🎉 brittlepaper.com/2018/12/the-20… @brittlepaper
- “we wanted Africans to own the means of production, to be in charge of the storytelling and not just writing the stories....” @CassavaRepublic co-founder @BibiBakareyusuf on th BBC🙌🏾 BBC News - Bringing African writers to the public
- We’re open for submissions! For the next month, we welcome submissions from writers of fiction, nonfiction, crime, short stories and children's stories. This is your chance to get our attention and perhaps, you might be the next author whose work we acquire.
- Congratulations to our co-founder and publishing director @BibiBakareyusuf who was named @RSLiterature Honorary Fellow yesterday for her contribution to literature. We are enormously proud of her. Can we have a day off for celebration please? @BibiBakareyusuf
- #NtozakeShange, the brilliant, irreverent and genre-breaking poet/novelist/PW best known for her choreopoem 'For Colored Girls For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf’ continues her dance with the ancestors. Rest in Poetry strib.mn/2OU8xqz
- 🏆We are proud to unveil the Cassava Republic Press Black Women's Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize! Valued at an astounding $30,000, this ground-breaking initiative is set to redefine the narrative for Black women writers across the globe. 🔗bit.ly/46pUqNB
- Rest in perfect peace Buchi Emecheta (1944-2017). Author of more than 20 books including the classic, 'The Joys of Motherhood’.
- "African writers are like writers everywhere! I'm against prescriptions as to what Africans should write about." - Ama Ata Aidoo #AkeFest17
- 🗣️ We're delighted to announce that we will be publishing The Hundred Wells of Salaga, a #historicalfiction novel by Ayesha Harruna Attah, in May 2018! Check out her video for more details! 💃🏿#HundredWells
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