Le Fonds Africain pour le Developpement de la Femme (Rapport Annuel ) organisera un atelier créatif de non-fiction à Kampala, Ouganda, organisé par FEMRITE Uganda Women Writers Association du 21 au 31 juillet 2014. Les principaux animateurs de l'atelier seront Mamle Kabu, et Yewande Omotoso.
This workshop is targeted at writers and activists who wish to use the power of the written word to highlight issues around women’s rights and social justice. Participants taking part in this workshop will be expected to read widely from assigned selected texts, and to complete daily written exercises.
The organisation of this workshop forms part of AWDF’s efforts to raise African women’s voices. Writers who participate in this workshop will be supported to have their articles placed in a range of local, regional and international media. In line with AWDF’s ethos, efforts will be made to ensure that at least 20% of the writers selected for this workshop will be women from existing grantee organisations and activists from civil society spaces.
Accommodation and a travel grant will be provided for all accepted applicants who are able to attend for the duration of the workshop.
Application Guidelines
Deadline for submission is 23rd March 2014. Only those accepted to the workshop will be notified by 30th May 2014.
Postuler, send an e-mail to writing@africlub.net/awdf
Your e-mail subject should read ‘Workshop Application’
The body of the e-mail should contain the following:
1. Your Name
2. Your Address
3. A short bio (maximum 200 mots)
4. A sample article addressing an issue around women’s rights or social justice (of between 500 et 1000 mots)
* Please state in your email if you are a member of an AWDF grantee organisation or network member
* The sample article could be either published or unpublished
Facilitators Bio
Mamle Kabu
Photo credit: Printex
Mamle Kabu, a writer of Ghanaian and German parentage, was born in Ghana and attended the University Primary School, Légon, and Achimota Secondary School.
At the age of 14 she moved to the United Kingdom. She completed her secondary schooling there, after which she studied at the University of Cambridge, where she obtained her BA and MA in Modern Languages and her MPhil in Latin-American Studies. She returned to Ghana in 1992 where she has since been resident and works as a freelance consultant in development issues.
Mamle took up fiction writing in the late 1990s and has since written a number of short stories, all of which have been published in various anthologies and journals in Africa, the UK and the US. One of these is “The End of Skill,” which was nominated for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2009. En 2011, for the first time, Mamle turned her hand to writing for children and published a young adult novel under the name Mamle Wolo. This book, entitled ‘The Kaya-Girl,’ won the 2011 Burt Award for African Literature in Ghana. Mamle has also written poetry, two screenplays and is working on a novel. She is a co-director of the Writers’ Project of Ghana and a keen believer in fostering writing talent and strengthening networks between African writers. In the past three years, she has attended a number of international writing workshops including the Farafina Writer’s Workshop by Chimamanda Adichie in Lagos, the Caine Prize Workshop in Kenya and the Femrite annual residency in Uganda. She combines her work and writing with the raising of her two children.
Ywande Childoo
Yredomo Childoso est né à la Barbade 1980 et a grandi au Nigéria avec sa mère barbadienne, Père nigérian et deux frères aînés. La famille a déménagé en Afrique du Sud en 1992.
Yewande formé en tant qu'architecte à l'Université du Cap, à quoi elle est revenue après avoir travaillé comme architecte pendant plusieurs années, Pour terminer une maîtrise en écriture créative. Le produit de son diplôme est son premier roman «Bomboy» publié dans 2011 Par Cape Town Publisher Modjaji Books. «Bomboy» a été présélectionné pour le 2012 Sunday Times Literary Awards ainsi que le Mnet Film Award, Il a remporté le prix littéraire sud-africain (Sala) Pour le premier prix d'auteur. Avant que «Bomboy» Yewande a rédigé plusieurs histoires, parmi eux «le piano» (2ND PLACE, Personnes opposées aux femmes abus, 2005) et «Maude Hastings» (Mention honorable, Concours de courte histoire de John La Rose, 2007). En outre, elle a publié «Heroes» avec le magazine en ligne du crime de fiction «Noir Nation» et «deux personnes âgées» dans l'anthologie «Speaking for the Generation: Histoires contemporaines d'Afrique ». Peetetry de Ywande («Étranger» et «la pluie») a été publié dans le «Baobab Literary Journal» 2009. «La pluie» a été présélectionnée pour les Sol Plaatjie European Union Poetry Awards 2012.
Omotoso, pour qui l'écriture est un moyen de donner un sens au monde, s'intéresse à la complexité des expériences humaines ainsi qu'aux incongruités de la vie. La solitude est un thème récurrent. Omotoso considère son écriture comme un outil pour compassion et évoquant l'auto-examen. Pour son talent et l'intention de raconter des histoires, Elle attribue à ses parents et à une enfance imprégnée de lecture et du partage d'idées.