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Africa in Dialogue

Rolling deadlineNo feeUpdatedOct 21Creative nonfictionMemoirEnglish

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Eligibility
Open to
Interviews must be between African interviewers and storytellers; an African is defined as someone born in an African country, a citizen of an African country, or someone with at least one parent who is/was African.
Where
Anywhere
Response time
Response time
60–90 days

About this call

Africa in Dialogue is an ongoing editorial project devoted to publishing interviews with African writers, artists, and thinkers. Conceived as a durable archive of contemporary African cultural production, the platform situates its conversations within African contexts while remaining global in scope. Its editorial priorities are depth, research, and critical engagement, distinguishing it from publicity-driven coverage. Accepted interviews are published on the Africa in Dialogue platform and reach a readership invested in African letters and the arts. The project seeks dialogues that illuminate creative processes, intellectual histories, and the socio-political dimensions of artistic practice. Contributors receive a byline and the opportunity to participate in the shaping of a lasting record of an interviewee's voice. Submissions are considered on a rolling basis and carry no reading fee. The editorial vision favors exchanges that are substantive, well-researched, and attentive to the particular nuances of the interviewee's work. Generic questionnaires and conversations oriented toward publicity are not the project's concern. The strongest submissions treat the interview as a genuine intellectual encounter in which both parties' positions are legible and the subject's practice is examined on its own terms.

Eligibility

Interviewees must be African storytellers — creatives who use their art-form to tell stories, including writers, filmmakers, bloggers, journalists, songwriters, music composers, painters, visual artists, comic writers, illustrators, photographers, etc.
Interviews must not have been previously published.

Unpublished only

Interviews must be submitted in English; translated interviews are welcome, with both translator and original interviewer submitting as a single submission.

What to send

Interview (no longer than 10,000 words), unpublished, with a title in the format "Title of Interview: A Dialogue With Full Name of Interviewee"

Required

Interviewee bio (not more than 200 words) in the same Word document

Required

Interviewer bio (not more than 100 words) in a separate Microsoft Word attachment

Required

High-resolution images of both interviewee and interviewer (and translator for translated interviews)

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sent as a single Word document (doc, docx) attachment via email; not pasted in the email body

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