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Mawenzi House brings you fantastic from Canadian and other authors.

Mawenzi House is dedicated to bringing to the reading public fresh diverse writing from Canada and across the world that reflects the diversity of our rapidly globalizing world, particularly in Canada and the United States. We are dedicated to bringing to the reading public fresh new writing from Canada and across the world that reflects the diversity of our rapidly globalizing world. Our focus is on works that can loosely be termed "multicultural" (for want of a better word). Our authors come from South Asian, East Asian, African, Caribbean and Arab backgrounds. Check out our website www.mawenzihouse.com for our recent titles and full backlist. Follow us on:

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10/09/2026

**Twenty-five years later, the questions of justice, freedom, and accountability remain as urgent as ever.**

In *Hope and Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband from a Black Site*, author and human rights advocate **Monia Mazigh** tells the deeply personal story of her fight to free her husband from detention in Syria, exposing the devastating human cost of the War on Terror.

With a substantial new foreword reflecting on the 25 years since the beginning of the War on Terror, this revised second edition brings renewed urgency to a story of courage, resistance and the relentless pursuit of justice.

This October, Mawenzi House Publishers invites you to Ottawa for a special book launch and conversation featuring **Monia Mazigh and Alex Neve**, Professor of International Human Rights at the University of Ottawa.

Together, they will reflect on the lasting consequences of the War on Terror, the importance of defending civil liberties, and what it means to stand against injustice.

📅 **Tuesday, October 27, 2026**
🕕 **6:00 PM**
📍 **Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre**, 290 Lisgar Street, Ottawa, ON

📚 Copies of *Hope and Despair* will be available for purchase on-site through **Octopus Books**.

We invite you to be part of this timely and important conversation.

🎟️ **Reserve your spot here:** https://www.canvaqr.com/RGS3QWXojV

10/08/2026

Join us in Toronto for an afternoon of poetry and conversation as we celebrate Saraswoti Lamichhane’s Karaikhola Flows. 📚✨
Saraswoti will be joined by guest speakers Bänoo Zan and Ranjini George, with Pushpa Acharya as host, for a special poetry reading and celebration of Karaikhola Flows.

📅 Sunday, October 25, 2026
⏰ 1:00–3:30 PM
📍 North York Central Library – Meeting Room 101
5120 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON

We hope you’ll join us for an afternoon celebrating poetry, community, memory, and the journeys that connect us to home.

10/05/2026

📚 TORONTO BOOK LAUNCH

Join Mawenzi House and the Blackhurst Cultural Centre for the launch of Didier Leclair’s The African Prince, the Translator, and the N**i.
Come meet the author, discover the story behind the pages, and get your copy signed as we celebrate this new novel as part of the Black & Caribbean Book Affair: Seeing Ourselves — The Next Chapter.

📅 Saturday, October 17, 2026
⏰ 4:30–6:30 PM
📍 Blackhurst Cultural Centre
777 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON M5S 0B7

We’re looking forward to an afternoon of books, conversation, community, and celebration. Toronto readers, we hope to see you there!

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10/02/2026

Celebrating Sheniz Janmohamed, Poet-in-Residence!

We’re delighted to celebrate Mawenzi House poet Sheniz Janmohamed on her appointment as Poet-in-Residence at the Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough, as part of the U of T Scarborough Year of Poetry.

Responding to the exhibition Cartographies of Longing, Sheniz will draw on her multidisciplinary practice as a poet, artist, educator, and certified Forest Bathing Guide to develop programming that brings together poetry, guided reflection, nature reconnection, and creative engagement with the exhibiting artists’ work.

Sheniz is the author of three poetry collections published by Mawenzi House: Bleeding Light (2010), Firesmoke (2014), and Reminders on the Path (2021). We’re especially thrilled that Reminders on the Path will also be studied by classes during the residency.

Congratulations, Sheniz! We’re excited to see the conversations, connections, and new work that emerge from this residency.

📸 Photo by Eva Tsai

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10/01/2026

Poetry brought us together in Ottawa!

A few moments from Mekyle Ali Qadir and Fareh Malik’s joint reading at Carleton University, where the two poets shared their work with an engaged audience.
We’re always glad to see poetry move beyond the page and into a room of listeners, where each poem can be heard, felt and experienced collectively.

Thank you to everyone who came out for the reading, and to Mekyle and Fareh for a wonderful evening of poetry.

📸 Here are some moments from the event.

09/28/2026

Fresh from the printer! 📚✨

We’re thrilled to share that copies of Didier Leclair’s The African Prince, the Translator, and the N**i have officially arrived at Mawenzi House!

Translated by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, this compelling novel brings readers into a story of migration, identity, history, and the unexpected connections that emerge across cultures and generations.

The African Prince, the Translator, and the N**i is out now and available to order.
Congratulations to Didier Leclair, Phyllis Aronoff, and Howard Scott on bringing this new edition into the world!

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09/25/2026

📚 Didier Leclair at The Word On The Street 2026!

We’re excited to share that Mawenzi House author Didier Leclair will be appearing at The Word On The Street Toronto Book & Magazine Festival for WOTS Presents: Language and Translation.
Language shapes how stories are told, shared, and understood. Join Didier, alongside translators Claire Foster and Sarah Moses, for a conversation exploring translation, identity, and the power of words, moderated by Michelle Anderson.

📍 Vibrant Voices Stage
📅 Sunday, September 27, 2026
⏰ 1:15 PM
📖 Official Bookseller: Another Story Bookshop

Come meet Didier and join us for what promises to be a thoughtful conversation about language, literature, and the ways stories travel across cultures.

09/23/2026

AVAILABLE NOW! 📚

We’re delighted to announce that The African Prince, the Translator, and the N**i by Didier Leclair is now available!

Set in N**i-occupied Paris during the Second World War, the novel follows Prince Antonio, an African prince involved in a clandestine diamond trade, and Jean de Dieu, his trusted translator, as their lives become dangerously entangled with the N**i occupation.

When Major Baumeister, a Gestapo officer, sets his sights on Prince Antonio and his diamonds, Jean de Dieu and those around him are drawn into an increasingly perilous struggle involving surveillance, deception, resistance, and escape. At the same time, Prince Antonio must protect Suzy, his Jewish Polish companion, and their young son, Rodolfo, from the N**is.

Moving between Paris and Lisbon, the novel brings together a vivid cast of Africans, Europeans, refugees, resistance figures, and outsiders trying to survive an occupied city where race, power, loyalty, love, and survival collide.

The African Prince, the Translator, and the N**i is a gripping historical novel about people navigating the dangers of N**i occupation and the unexpected alliances forged in resistance to it.

Available now in print and digital editions.

📖 The African Prince, the Translator, and the N**i
✍🏾 Didier Leclair
🏠 Mawenzi House Publishers

09/18/2026

A beautiful evening celebrating I Was Born with Sand in My Eyes by Moustapha Mohamed Chein. 📚✨

On September 10, we gathered at Argo Bookshop in Montréal for the launch of Moustapha’s new poetry collection. It was an evening of poetry, music, conversation, and community.

From seeing the book displayed on the shelves to watching readers discover its pages, and finally hearing Moustapha bring his poems to life before an audience, the evening was a wonderful celebration of the book and the community surrounding it.

Our heartfelt thanks to everyone who joined us, to the musicians who added another dimension to the evening, and to Argo Bookshop for welcoming us into their space.

And, of course, congratulations to Moustapha Mohamed Chein on the launch of I Was Born with Sand in My Eyes! 💚

📖 I Was Born with Sand in My Eyes
✍🏾 Moustapha Mohamed Chein
🏠 Mawenzi House Publishers

09/17/2026

With the work we do at Mawenzi House, we not only publish books; we promote them, champion our authors, send their work out for awards and prizes, and do everything we can to help these brilliant stories reach wider audiences. And there is nothing quite like the joy of seeing that work recognized.

We are absolutely delighted to share that Carolyn Ramzy’s Taslim: We Are the Prophets has been named a 2026 Ottawa Book Awards finalist in the English Fiction category! 🎉📚

This recognition is a wonderful celebration of Carolyn’s work and of a book we have been incredibly proud to publish and support.

At Mawenzi House, our commitment to a book does not end when it goes to print. We continue advocating for our authors, submitting their work for awards, creating opportunities for visibility and helping their books find the readers and recognition they deserve.

Congratulations, Carolyn, on this well-deserved recognition and congratulations to all of this year’s finalists! We are so happy to see Taslim: We Are the Prophets among such wonderful company.

Here’s to the books we believe in, the authors behind them and the joy of seeing their work celebrated. ❤️

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