{"id":16854,"date":"2016-01-20T09:31:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T07:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=16854"},"modified":"2016-01-20T09:31:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T07:31:22","slug":"us-journal-set-to-publish-poet-wokoma-atanis-special-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/01\/20\/us-journal-set-to-publish-poet-wokoma-atanis-special-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"US journal set to publish poet Wokoma-atani\u2019s special edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

A US journal known a s Ufahamu:A journal of African studie<\/em>s is set to recognise the writing works of essayist, poet and writer Benedicto Wokoma-atani Malunga by producing his special edition.<\/p>\n

Malunga confirmed the development on Monday.<\/p>\n

Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies <\/em>is an interdisciplinary journal of African studies published by University of California, United States of America.<\/p>\n

He said Ufahamu<\/em>: A Journal of African Studies <\/em>has decided to publish a special edition for him because he has been contributing works to the journal since the 1990s.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been publishing short stories with Ufahamu Journal <\/em>since the 1990s. In 2014 four of my short stories were accepted at once on the understanding that they would be published in installments beginning from 2015.<\/p>\n

So far two of these short stories have been published with the latest being Fate\u2019s Mockery, <\/em>he said.<\/p>\n

Malunga said one of the editors who reviewed the four short stories asked him through the Chief Editor to grant her permission to come up with a special edition to feature his short stories.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have already granted the requisite permission but I am nevertheless overwhelmed by the honour bestowed upon me,\u201d said the veteran poet.<\/p>\n

Malunga said t h e last time he read about a similar honour extended to a Malawian was when the life of Henry Blazius Masauko Chipembere was celebrated by Ufahamu contributors with articles on him after his death.<\/p>\n

The poet famed for the poem titled \u2018Ndizakutengela Kunyanja Ligineti\u2019said he appreciates this recognition from international scholars.<\/p>\n

Malunga noted that the biggest problem writers face in the country is that they do not get to appreciate each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not therefore surprised that we do not make much progress because instead of building each other up for the good of our country we tend to be busy pulling each other down,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Malunga said If not for late Chinua Achebe as the editor of the African Writers\u2019 Heinemann series, they would not have known the multitude of rare African talent he unearthed and helped to grow.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is also a lesson to our weekend newspaper editors that Malawians deserve better fiction from their writers if only such writers can be rewarded for what they are worth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Apart from Fate\u2019s Mockery<\/em>, some of Malunga\u2019s short stories which were accepted include When Birds Roost<\/em>, and Meaningful Love. <\/em><\/p>\n

Malunga said he has made progress in his writing world.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am happy, this is no mean achievement. This is a measure how I have grown in the art. This is a top notch journal and it shows that I have not been labouring in vain,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A US journal known a s Ufahamu:A journal of African studies is set to recognise the writing works of essayist, poet and writer Benedicto Wokoma-atani Malunga by producing his special edition. Malunga confirmed the development on Monday. Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies is an interdisciplinary journal of African studies published by University of California, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16860,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16854\/revisions\/16860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}