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The African Writers Abroad Centre is a member centre of International PEN, for writers of African descent who live outside the African continent.
Posted By awa on October 9th, 2008

We are working on returning the AWA site to you. Please be patient.

 
Posted By kadija on February 14th, 2010

CREATIVITY, DISSIDENCE AND WOMEN -
A COURSE WITH NAWAL EL-SAADAWI

Date:16-18  April 2010
Venue: Goldsmiths College, London
A rare opportunity to be taught by Writer and Activist Nawal el Saadawi.
Nawal el Saadawi is a popular speaker and writer in the UK. For the
first time ever she will be facilitating a course on her specialised
area, creativity  and dissidence.This [...]

Posted By kadija on January 17th, 2010

The sad news has reached us of the deaths of the President of Haiti PEN, Georges Anglade and his wife Mireille Neptune as two of the lives lost in the Earthquake.
At the last PEN Congress held in Linz, Austria in October 2009, Margaret Busby, Nii Parkes and Kadija George met Georges and Mireille. Nii recalls [...]

Posted By kadija on November 20th, 2009

Friday 20 November
6pm AWA meeting – Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer , London SE1.(not the Royal Festival Hall but as you face it, the building on the left, where the Purcell Room is)
Nearest underground: Waterloo or Embankment
Agenda – Aims and objectives of the Centre;AWA Achievements;Taking the Centre forward; officer roles; membership; future projects [...]

Posted By awa on November 17th, 2009

On 28 November 2009, please join us for a remembrance in music, images and words as Artists, friends, colleagues and family come together to pay their respects and celebrate the life of Cheikh Ahmed [...]

Posted By niiayikwei on November 11th, 2009

Debut Playwright Lydia Besong and Human Rights Campaigner Bernard Batey told to leave UK

Lydia Besong is a writer.  Her debut play “How I Became an Asylum Seeker” is being staged by Community Arts Northwest (CAN) at the Zion Theater in Hulme, Manchester on 3rd December.  She is also on the Management Committee of WAST [...]