African writers now: Panashe Chigumadzi and Chigozie Obioma

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The Cultural Frontline speaks to some of Africa’s leading writers about the transformative power of literature. Taking the African story to the world. We speak to the writers Cherrie Kandie and Ngwah-Mbo Nana Nkweti about their latest work which has been nominated for the prestigious Caine Prize and ask what life is like as a contemporary African writer working in the United States. A generation after the Rwandan genocide, the writer Yolande Mukugasana tells the Cultural Frontline how her writing helped share the story of a life lost amidst one of the most horrific crimes in modern history. Has a song, a film, or a book ever changed the way you see the world? The Nigerian author Chigozie Obioma, shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize, reveals how the Nigerian literary classic The Palm-Wine Drinkard inspired him to become a writer. Plus how one of Africa’s brightest literary talents, Panashe Chigumadzi, was inspired by her grandmother to tell the personal and political story of Zimbabwe after the fall of former President Robert Mugabe. Presented by Tina Daheley Image: Panashe Chigumadzi. Credit: Ropafadzo Murombo