[tp lang=”en” not_in=”fr”]AWDF selects 22 African Women For Its African Women Writers Workshop In Kampala, Uganda, July 27-August 5, 2015

The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is pleased to announce the selection of 22 African female writers for its second creative non-fiction writers workshop on social justice to be held in Kampala, Uganda, from July 27-August 5, 2015.

The candidates were chosen by a competitive process from over 200 applications that poured in after the call was announced in April this year.

The workshop is being organized in collaboration with the Uganda Women Writers Association (FEMRITE), an NGO which promotes the development of creative writing in Africa through workshops and courses.

Lead facilitators this year are veteran BBC journalist Elizabeth Ohene from Ghana and award winning writer Yewande Omotoso (Nigeria, Barbados South Africa)**.

A novel feature of this year’s program will be a Moth Workshop, conducted by experienced story telling instructors. Moth workshops seek to aid participants learn to shape selected life experiences into well crafted stories, which are then presented to peers and members of the local community.

The AWDF Women Writers Workshop sets out to give African women writers the space, time and enhanced skills to enable them write in compelling ways about a range of social, economic and political issues of concern to African women.

The successful women writers for 2015 are:

Tamika Kampini– Malawi

Merna Thomas Soryal- Egypt

Fatou Wurie – Sierra- Leone

Billie McTernan- UK/Ghana

Amarachi Orji- Nigeria

Zanele Mabaso- South Africa

Salma Takky- Morocco

Zemdena Abebe Areru- Ethiopia

Simamkele Dlakavu- South Africa

Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi- Nigeria

Zeyana Abdullah- Kenya

Ny Anjara Nofy Ary Tiavina Andrianarisaina – Madagascar

Aisha Ali Haji- Kenya

Monica Cheru-Mpambawashe- Zimbabawe

Annette Denise Mkandawire- Malawi

Reham Elgebaly- Egypt

Ngwentah Berlyne Ngwalem- Cameroon

Ruth Olando Adong- Uganda

Jama Jack – The Gambia

Sibusiso T Mtshede- Zimbabwe

Stellamaris Kembabazi- Uganda

Josephine Opar- Kenya

Both this and the previous women writers workshop held in 2014 were made possible through the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

**AWDF would like to announce that since this article was published, there was a change in the lead facilitators for the workshop. The workshop will now be lead by Sylvia Vollenhoven from South Africa and Yewande Omotoso from Nigeria/Barbados/South Africa. Please see Sylvia’s profile below, taken from International Center for Journalists:

Sylvia Vollenhoven

Knight International Journalism Fellow

Sylvia Vollenhoven is a Knight Development Journalism Fellow who is leading a project to improve coverage of poverty and development issues in Ghana.

An award-winning journalist and media trainer from South Africa, she is the founder of the VIA – Vision in Africa media organization, which has spearheaded innovative international training initiatives. As the Africa representative for the Thomson Foundation, Vollenhoven also was the lead trainer for the Foundation’s first-ever documentary filmmaking course at Cardiff University in 2008.

More recently, she brokered a collaboration between the Foundation and key African partners to launch the Africa Means Business (AMB) project, a long-term, pan-African training initiative for business journalists. Vollenhoven served as the facilitator for the AMB pilot training seminar in Nairobi in June 2009.

In the early 1990s, Vollenhoven was the Southern African Correspondent for the Swedish newspaper,Expressen, and was awarded Sweden’s top journalism prize, one of many awards she received for her work. She later went into broadcasting, joining the South African Broadcasting Corporation, where she held a variety of positions over the years, including reporter, producer, trainer and manager. Subsequently, she has been a consultant for the SABC and for the Kaiser Family Foundation, training broadcast media professionals across Africa.

For 10 years, Vollenhoven served as the Southern Africa Coordinator for the International Public Television (INPUT) organization, raising the profile of public broadcasting in the region.

More about Sylvia:

http://whoswho.co.za/sylvia-vollenhoven-4794

http://www.thejournalist.org.za/contributors/sylvia-vollenhoven

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[tp lang=”fr” not_in=”en”]AWDF sélectionne 22 auteures africaines pour son African Women Writers Workshop à Kampala, en Ouganda, du 27 Juillet au 5 Août 2015.

Le Fonds Africain de développement de la Femme (AWDF) est heureux d’annoncer la sélection de 22 écrivaines africaines pour son deuxième atelier de création sur la justice sociale pour les écrivains non-fictionnels qui se tiendra à Kampala, en Ouganda, du 27 juillet au 5 août 2015.

Les candidates ont été choisies grâce à un processus rigoureux parmi plus de 200 candidatures déposées après que l’appel d’offre ait été lancé en Avril de cette année.

L’atelier est organisé en collaboration avec l’Association des femmes écrivains ougandaises (FEMRITE), une ONG qui promeut le développement de l’écriture créative en Afrique à travers des ateliers et des cours.

Les animateurs principaux cette année sont la journaliste Elizabeth Ohene du Ghana, vétérante de la BBC et l’écrivaine primée Yewande Omotoso (Nigeria, Afrique du Sud, Barbade).

Une nouvelle caractéristique du programme de cette année sera l’atelier Moth, mené par des instructeurs expérimentés pour raconter des histoires. Les ateliers Moth cherchent à aider les participantes à apprendre à sélectionner et façonner des expériences de vie dans des histoires bien conçues, qui sont ensuite présentées à leurs pairs et les membres de la communauté locale.

L’African Women Writers Workshop d’AWDF vise à donner aux femmes écrivains africaines de l’espace, du temps et un renforcement des compétences pour leur permettre d’écrire de manière convaincante au sujet d’un éventail de questions sociales, économiques et politiques qui préoccupent les femmes africaines.

Les lauréates de l’édition 2015 sont:

Tamika Kampini- Malawi

Merna Thomas Soryal- Egypte

Fatou Wurie – Sierra-Leone

Billie McTernan- UK / Ghana

Amarachi Orji- Nigeria

Zanele Mabaso- Afrique du Sud

Salma Takky- Maroc

Zemdena Abebe Areru- Ethiopie

Simamkele Dlakavu- Afrique du Sud

Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi- Nigeria

Zeyana Abdullah- Kenya

Ny Anjara Nofy Ary Tiavina Andrianarisaina – Madagascar

Aisha Ali Haji- Kenya

Monica Cheru-Mpambawashe- Zimbabawe

Annette Denise Mkandawire- Malawi

Reham Elgebaly- Egypte

Ngwentah Berlyne Ngwalem- Cameroun

Ruth Olando Adong- Ouganda

Jama Jack – Gambie

Sibusiso T Mtshede- Zimbabwe

Stellamaris Kembabazi- Ouganda

Josephine Opar- Kenya

Cette édition des atelier des écrivains africaines comme la précédente tenue en 2014 ont été rendues possibles grâce à l’appui de la Fondation Bill et Melinda Gates.[/tp]