Sue Nyathi lands prestigious writing opportunity
Mako Jerera
Fiction author Sukoluhle “Sue” Nyathi has been nominated for the AU20 “Our Africa, Our Future” Writers Residency Programme running in Ghana from today to November 28.
Nyathi will be part of a team of five writers from the African continent who will be tasked to interpret this year’s theme in a broad and expansive way across a selected genre, including fiction, narrative non-fiction and poetry.
The Writers Residency Programme was organised by the Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora (LOTAD).
The work will be published in an e-book anthology to be released in early 2023.
Sue Nyathi will be joined by Nour Kamel (Egypt), TJ Benson (Nigeria), Musih Tedji Xaviere (Cameroon) and Tony Mochama (Kenya).
The residency programmes are a crucible of ideas, debate, and literary production.
They bring together writers from across Africa and the Diaspora, at all stages of their writing careers and across genres, in the community to bring out the best in their thinking and their writing.
LOTAD’s mission is to celebrate and champion Africa’s rarely acknowledged contribution to the global literary canon.
In an interview,Nyathi said it delights her to be selected and it affirms her work.
Nyathi’s authorship career has seen her pen novels inclusive of The Polygamist (2012), The GoldDiggers (2018) and A Family Affair (2020). Her hand is also seen in Black Tax (2019) and Hair (2019). Readers can look forward to her latest release, ‘An Angel’s Demise’ (2022).
Also, Nyati has contributed to anthologies like ‘Black Tax: A burden or Ubuntu’ (2019) and ‘Hair: Unpicking and Weaving stories of Identity’ (2019) She has also edited an anthology titled, ‘When Secrets Become Stories, Women Speak Out’ (2021).
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