“There’s a lot of Tanzania’s history and culture that cannot be depicted through realism, like our true emotions about our history and culture. If you are only painting things that you can see, you miss out on a lot of our culture that can’t be physically seen” – Sabi John
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Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Zanzibari-born 2021 Nobel Literature laureate’s grand homecoming was punctuated by the translation of his masterpiece, Paradise, into Kiswahili. His publisher, Mkuki Bgoya, speaks about its significance in the Swahili canon.
Multi-hyphenate and self-proclaimed Bookish Babe, Hena Bryan occupies an interesting space in the book world. With a publishing house that specialiSes in children’s books and a Booktube dedicated to raving about literature, Henna has such rich insight to offer. I catch up with her to talk about books, youtube, the mechanics of publishing its many intersections.
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Poet and screenwriter Thara Popoola’s career has been a slow and steady climb. Poem after poem, then short after short, and more recently one script after another, earning her a seat at the season 4 Sex Education writers’ room, where she got her first TV credit on the award winning show’s final episode. We caught up with her to talk what it’s really like to write for a living, Sex Education and her artistic sensibilities.
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Shortly after its release of the anthology Who’s Loving You, The Floor had a virtual chat with contributing writer and creator of said anthology Sareeta Domingo to talk about how the book came about, being a writer of colour writing romance, and how other forms of art to inform her writing.
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