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21 Mar 2010

Alex Smith

@ BOOK Southern Africa

  • The Love Africa Carnival, an online celebration of Africa, continent of 2000 languages, is calling for submissions for the Carnival blog-zine:

  • poems, paragraphs, microfiction, short stories, fables, fairytales, essays, illustrated stories

    ON ANY OF THE FOLLOWING THEMES:

    1.A sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell I love in Africa

    2.Past, present or future of Love in Africa

    3.A place, person, building, book, detail, language, object, insect, animal, or thing, I love in Africa

    4.A rewritten Love myth or legend in Africa

    5.Love --a story for children of Africa

    BOOK PRIZES FOR MOST POPULAR ENTRY

    Hearty thanks the following authors for supporting the Love Africa Carnival with book prize donations:

  • Michael Ambetchew, Gabeba Baderoon, André Brink,
    Lauren Beukes, Richard De Nooy, Louis Greenberg,
    Liesl Jobson, Sarah Lotz, Jo-anne Richards,
    Henrietta Rose Innes, Ben Trovato
  • Please send submissions to Alex at loveafricacarnival@gmail.com , that are:
    1.Original and unpublished
    2.With author's full name, place of birth, country of residence and a couple of lines of 'about the author' bio.

    LOVE AFRICA CARNIVAL INDEX

    Angelo at the Waterfront by Christopher Gregorowski and Tony GroganAt One With Mama Africa Miriam Zenzile Makeba by Mwape MumbiOn love, writing and Senegal by Mariama NdoyeLovebirds by Alex SmithHoliday in De Rust by SA PatridgeInverted Season by Karina Magdalena SzczurekFrom Ethiopia, Hello By Michael AmbatchewThe Taste of Chicke by Dineo MaboeNani’s Sari by Sherissa RoopnarainSpring Oak & Melville by Louis GreenbergSkyscapes by James ClarkeThe Spaza shop by Michelle McGraneThe Tree by Adrian Neil ChellewAnimal Portraits by Susan Kiguli

    Skyscapes by James Clarke (Note of Affection #1, Love Africa Carnival)

    Nani’s Sari by Sherissa Roopnarain (Note of Affection#2, Love Africa Carnival)

    The Tree by Adrian Neil Chellew (Note of affection#3, Love Africa Carnival)

    Animal Portraits by Susan Kiguli (Note of Affection #4, Love Africa Carnival)

    Spring Oak & Melville by Louis Greenberg (Note of Affection #5, Love Africa Carnival)

    Inverted Season by Karina Magdalena Szczurek (Note of Affection#7, Love Africa Carnival)

    From Ethiopia, Hello By Michael Ambatchew (Note of Affection #8, Love Africa Carnival)

    The Taste of Chicken by Dineo Maboe (Note of Affection #9, Love Africa Carnival)


    Holiday in De Rust by SA Partridge (Note of Affection #10, Love Africa Carnival)

    Lovebirds, a play by Alex Smith (Note of Affection #12, Love Africa Carnival)

    On Love, Writing and Senegal by Mariama Ndoye (Note of Affection #13, Love Africa Carnival)

    At One with Mama Afrika - Miriam Zenzile Makeba by Mwape Mumbi (Note of Affection #14, Love Africa Carnival, Part 1 of 2)

    At One with Mama Afrika (2) - Miriam Zenzile Makeba by Mwape Mumbi (Note of Affection #14, Love Africa Carnival, Part 2 of 2)

    Genesis of a picture Book:’Angelo at the Waterfront’ by Christopher Gregorowski and Tony Grogan (Note of Affection #14, Love Africa Carnival)