Tag: news
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Ford Global Fellowship!
I’m delighted to have been selected as a 2024 Ford Global Fellow! Along with 25 other emerging leaders from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East, we will be supported by the Ford Foundation to intensify our work in advancing social justice in our communities and in our countries to create a more equitable…
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Tracking down the last survivors of the Bengal famine (BBC News)
I’m deeply moved by this story about survivors of the Bengal famine and the profound work that Sailen Sarkar has been doing over the last few years travelling around the Bengali countryside gathering their first-hand accounts. “Sailen has now gathered more than 60 eyewitness accounts. In most cases, the people he says he talked to…
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New interview on OkayAfrica
Growing up in the U.K., Sylvia Arthur did not read one African writer throughout her school years, even up to university. “That was a while ago. Things may have changed slightly, but not much,” she tells OkayAfrica in an interview. “There are African writers who go way before Chinua Achebe. None of those people and our literature are generally…
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The compound interest of compound housing
Interesting article in The Guardian about an intergenerational care home in the U.K. that incorporates a nursery where children and residents come together daily, and the positive benefits this has for both seniors and toddlers. “If the idea is familiar to you,” the article states, “it is probably from the Channel 4 series, Old People’s…
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The Sarjo Effect
“It’s not like male photographers are better than female. I want people to recognise me as a photographer who is as good as male ones. I want Gambia to see how passionate I am.” Sarjo Baldeh in The Guardian I’m so pleased for and proud of my friend, Sarjo Baldeh, my photographer on The Gambia…
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2023 Brittle Paper Literary Person of the Year
From Brittle Paper: Sylvia Arthur is the 2023 Brittle Paper African Literary Person of the Year for her outstanding work as the founder of the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (@loatad_org) in Accra, Ghana. She is the 9th honoree of the award. @NnediOkorafor was the first to receive the award in 2015 and since then it…
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News: Forbes Africa Feature
I’m happy to be featured in the February/March 2023 issue of Forbes Africa magazine in an article titled, “Re-telling The African Story”: “We live in the Age of Story. Every brand, every political manifesto, is built on narrative architecture. Now Africa is reclaiming its own stories, and harnessing generations of storytelling craft to reconfigure the…
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“We’re all connected through literature”
“We’re all connected through literature; we’re all connected over generations through ancestry, through culture, through history, through so many things. I think when people come here, that’s what they take away most[ly], a feeling of connection beyond anything else. And if that’s what I’ve been able to do, then I’m happy with that for sure.“…
Sylvia Arthur 