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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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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Writivism has announced its shortlists for the 2017 Writivism Short Story Prize and Koffi Addo Non-fiction prizes. The panel of judges for this year’s short story competition included Sumayya Lee, Haruna Ayesha Attah, Emmanuel Sigauke, Edwige Dro and was chaired...
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PEN South Africa sent the statement below to the President of the Republic of Cameroon, Paul Biya. Your Excellency, PEN South Africa, an affiliate of an international organization, PEN International, and which represents writers, editors and translators who have pledged...
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Dear Delegates, Dear Colleagues, I won’t keep you long, because what I have to say to you is short. I would simply like to offer you my infinite gratitude for what you did for me, while I was in prison...
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