Interview with Africa in Dialogue Founder, Gaamangwe Joy Mogami

Abstract

Motswana founder of Africa in Dialogue Gaamangwe Joy Mogami is deeply committed to promoting the voices of African writers who fall outside the net of academic interest and the publishing communities of the global north. Mogami’s online interview magazine provides access to a range of work and genres that fall within what this special issue calls African Street Literatures, including writers of non-fiction, short stories, poetry, essays and journalism, as well as with poets, playwrights, film-makers. This interview with Mogami concentrates on her imperatives of promoting African authors, working for representation in the global literary market, foregrounding African epistemologies and her process of finding writers from the peripheries.

Notes

1 See the recent call for papers for a special issue of Postcolonial Text, as well as the contents of the papers presented at the ‘Small Magazines, Literary Networks and Self-Fashioning in Africa and its Diasporas’ conference held at the University of Bristol 19-20 January 2018.