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Joyce Ashuntantang

Dr. Joyce Ashuntantang, actress, screen writer, film producer and poet, is a major force in contemporary Anglophone Cameroonian culture. As a founding member of Cameroon Flame Players and member of Yaoundé University Theater, she starred in numerous stage and TV plays. Her full length film, Potent Secrets (2001), is an undisputable milestone in Cameroon’s film industry. Her awards include, The Spirit of Detroit Award from the Mayor of Detroit, 1987, Cameroon Cultural Festival Awards 1989 and 1994, Outstanding Women in Action Award, Cameroon, 2002, and MOHWA ‘‘women making a difference’’ Award, 2010. Dr. Ashuntantang earned a BA in Modern English Studies from the University of Yaoundé, A Masters in Library and information Science from the University College of Wales, U.K., an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from the City University of New York. She is the author of Landscaping Postcoloniality: the Dissemination of Cameroon Anglophone Literature, and the CEO/founder of EduART INC, a non-profit organization created to promote art as a medium for social change. She is currently a professor of English and African Literature at the University of Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Visit Joyce's blog here.

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ABC will be at the ASA UK meeting 16-19 September. The meeting is being held at St Antony's College in Oxford.

Africa is the focus at the Goteborg Book Fair, September 23-26. ABC along with participating publishers will be exhibiting.

ABC is an official sponsor of the Information for Change workshop in Nairobi September 21. Information for Change 2010 will examine emerging digital publishing models in East Africa.

Irene Staunton

Irene Staunton began work in publishing in London with John Calder publishers in the 1970s. Returning to Zimbabwe after its independence, she was an editor at the Government Curriculum Development Unit. In 1987, she co-established Baobab Books, which rapidly acquired a reputation as an exciting literary publisher. In 1999, she left Baobab to co-found Weaver Press. She was also a long-standing editor of the Heinemann African Writers Series.

Books edited by Irene Staunton

The Personal Costs of Political Change in Zimbabwe

Edited by Irene Staunton

ISBN 9781904855897 | 542 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2009 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback

Laughing Now

New Stories from Zimbabwe

Edited by Irene Staunton

ISBN 9781779220684 | 124 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2007 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback

Women Writing Zimbabwe

Edited by Irene Staunton

ISBN 9781779220738 | 148 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2008 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback

Writing Now

More Stories from Zimbabwe

Edited by Irene Staunton

ISBN 9781779220431 | 324 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2005 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback

Writing Still - New stories from Zimbabwe

Edited by Irene Staunton

ISBN 9781779220189 | 276 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2003 | Weaver Press, Zimbabwe | Paperback

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