{"id":48037,"date":"2016-07-03T00:41:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T00:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48037"},"modified":"2016-07-03T00:42:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T00:42:28","slug":"africa-writes-returns-to-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48037","title":{"rendered":"Africa Writes Returns to London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonlive.co.uk\/news\/2016-07-01\/africa-writes-festival-returns-to-london\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Africa Writes Returns to London<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonlive.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">London Live<\/a><br \/>\n2016-07-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_reya\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Reya El-Salahi<\/strong><\/a>, Presenter<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.londonlive.co.uk\/embed\/news\/2016-07-01\/africa-writes-festival-returns-to-london\" width=\"620\" height=\"348\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\">UK&#8217;s<\/a> biggest festival celebrating contemporary African literature returns to the capital today. The fifth annual <a href=\"http:\/\/africawrites.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Africa Writes<\/a> event features award-winning authors, book launches and panel discussions at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Library\" target=\"_blank\">The British Library<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/sheila.ruiz@soas.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Sheila Ruiz<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalafricansociety.org\" target=\"_blank\">Royal African Society<\/a> says the event aims to make African literature more mainstream while promoting cross-cultural understanding in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/London\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Africa Writes festival runs from Friday 1st &#8211; Sunday 3rd July 2016 at the British Library. For full listings visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/africawrites.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">africawrites.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Writes Returns to London London Live 2016-07-01 Reya El-Salahi, Presenter The UK&#8217;s biggest festival celebrating contemporary African literature returns to the capital today. The fifth annual Africa Writes event features award-winning authors, book launches and panel discussions at The British Library. Sheila Ruiz from the Royal African Society says the event aims to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,24,8,10,842],"tags":[24343,850,24345,13843,24344],"class_list":["post-48037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-videos","tag-africa-writes","tag-london","tag-london-live","tag-reya-el-salahi","tag-sheila-ruiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48038,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48037\/revisions\/48038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}