By Nick Mulgrew PEN South Africa[1] – together with colleagues from PEN International[2], PEN Nigeria[3], PEN Uganda[4], the Press Council of South Africa[5] and attorney Simon Delaney – recently attended the Sitting of the Permanent Committees of the Pan-African Parliament...
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PEN SA is seriously concerned about the threats of violence levelled toward workers at cinemas showing the film Inxeba, calls by traditional leaders to ban the film, and successful attempts to stop the film being shown at cinemas this past weekend in the Eastern and Western Cape. PEN...
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PEN South Africa notes with gladness that Cameroonian writer and Stony Brook college professor Patrice Nganang has been freed from detention in Cameroon. As Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director of PEN America wrote in a press release earlier this week: He was...
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On 15 November 2017, PEN South Africa partnered with the University of Cape Town’s Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) to commemorate one of the most important dates on the PEN calendar: the International Day of the Imprisoned Writer. The 2017...
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PEN South Africa is gravely concerned by the abduction and detention on December 6th 2017 of Patrice Nganang, a Cameroonian-American writer, poet, and professor. Nganang, a Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative literature at Stony Brook University in New York...
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