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• Literary Prizes: Joining the Caine Prize ‘Blog-Carnival’

  By Kate Haines on 20 May , 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Last week saw the announcement of the shortlist for the 14th Caine Prize for African Writing. The shortlist of 5 stories was selected by judges Gus Casely-Hayford (Chair), Sokari Douglas Camp, John Sutherland, Nathan Hensley and Leila Aboulela out of… Read More ›

• Fela Kuti and Bob Marley: two ports of the Black Atlantic

  By Africa in Words Guest on 12 May , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  This post is part of the series Gilroy’s Black Atlantic. Click here to read the first post of the series, here to read the second and here to read the third AiW Guest Tiago C. Fernandes SIDE A: FELA KUTI Fela Anikulapo Kuti was born in… Read More ›

• Meet Paul Theroux – Radio 4’s Bookclub programme

  By Africa in Words on 9 May , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Radio 4’s Bookclub programme is looking for readers to meet the travel writer Paul Theroux and talk to him about his book Dark Star Safari, his account of travelling from Cairo to Cape Town [reviewed by John Ryle in The Guardian 2002]…. Read More ›

• Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate Study Day: “Allah n’est pas obligé: The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures”

  By Africa in Words on 9 May , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate Study Day  “Allah n’est pas obligé: The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures” University of Stirling, 20 June 2013 Keynote Speaker: Philip Dine (National University of Ireland, Galway) PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME 9:30 – 10:15 Registration 10:15… Read More ›

• Culture, politics and intellectual practice through Gilroy’s “The Black Atlantic”

  By Africa in Words Guest on 7 May , 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  This post is part of the series Gilroy’s Black Atlantic. Click here to read the first post of the series and here to read the second. The book “The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness” written by Paul Gilroy is extremely insightful to… Read More ›

• GHANA POETRY PRIZE 2013

  By Africa in Words on 6 May , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Poetry Foundation Ghana announces its inaugural (2013) GHANA POETRY PRIZE. This will be an award of $ 1,000. This is built on the hugely successful 2012 Online Competition which was done under the name Ghana Poetry Awards. The aim of… Read More ›

• Pulp what? At the Franschhoek Literary Festival – 17-19 May

  By Katie Reid on 2 May , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Looking forward to chatting about all things African pulp fiction (with pulp zine Jungle Jim in the main frame from at least me) at this year’s Franschhoek Literary Festival - with Sean O’Toole, Jenna Bass (of Jungle Jim editorial fame, among a host of other fames), Stacy… Read More ›

• CFP: Remembering Chinua Achebe

  By Africa in Words on 1 May , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  With the passing off on March 22, 2013 of Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian prolific writer, one has to admit that the founding father of African literature has forsaken his pen forever. While the reference that Achebe is beheld as the… Read More ›

• Gilroy’s Black Atlantic: Samba, Jazz and Sambajazz in Brazil and the Black Atlantic.

  By Africa in Words Guest on 28 April , 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  This post is part of the series Gilroy’s Black Atlantic. Click here to read the first post of the series and here to read the third. AiW Guest Gabriel Improta I’m a musician and a social scientist from Rio de… Read More ›

• CFP: Francophone Postcolonial Studies and Book Culture (deadline June 10)

  By Africa in Words on 24 April , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies: Annual Conference 2013 Francophone Postcolonial Studies and Book Culture 22-23 November 2013 Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London The deadline for receipt of abstracts is: 10 June 2013 Amid rapid changes in technologies of… Read More ›

• Global and Imperial History Network PG and Early Career Workshop, 30 May 2013.

  By Africa in Words on 24 April , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The Global and Imperial History Network, Thursday 30 May 2013. The Department of History at the University of Exeter will be hosting a workshop on Thursday 30 May 2013 for postgraduate students and early careers researchers who are interested in… Read More ›

• The Chimurenga Chronic, now-now – first print issue of pan-African gazette

  By Katie Reid & Kate Haines on 22 April , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Now available from Chimurenga [from the Shona word for “revolutionary struggle”]: the CHRONIC - a new pan-African quarterly print gazette, with supplementary books review magazine CHRONIC BOOKS – see below for a preview of Billy Kahora‘s article  on the Nairobi noir. The first issue takes… Read More ›

• Achebe remembered: thanks for your wahala*

  By C E Hastings on 18 April , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Wahala: OED ‘trouble, affliction, calamity’ (from the OUP Blog) The death of Achebe has seen a wide range of tributes: reprints of interviews, quotes, images but also reflections and memories from those who knew this great writer, and writers influenced… Read More ›

• 20 years of Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic

  By Nara Improta on 15 April , 2013 • ( 9 )

  

  Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1993. This year, Gilroy’s Black Atlantic completed twenty years of its publication. This book has been used by many scholars in history, anthropology, literature and sociology, and… Read More ›

• Travels in Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Transwonderland

  By Africa in Words Guest on 12 April , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest Steve Haines Working in the world of ‘international development’ I’m easily tempted to measure a country by metrics and indices.  What interests me is the percentage of the population with access to safe drinking water, the primary school… Read More ›

• ‘A Universal Archive – William Kentridge as printmaker’: touring exhibition, available until Spring/Summer 2014.

  By Katie Reid on 10 April , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The Hayward/South Bank are holding a major, touring exhibition of South African artist William Kentridge’s work, with its provocative title, ‘A Universal Archive’, promising a trove-like collection of Kentridge’s innovative prints. With dates ranging from 1988 to new work, as… Read More ›

• Cameron Platter’s ‘Everyday Apocalypse’ @ Jack Bell Gallery, until April 20.

  By Katie Reid on 10 April , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Jack Bell Gallery 27 March – 20 April 2013 Artist’s Page (jackbellgallery.com) Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present Cameron Platter’s Everyday Apocalypse, the artist’s first exhibition in the UK.

• Review: Sowei Mask: Spirit of Sierra Leone at the British Museum

  By Nara Improta and Katie Reid on 8 April , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The exhibit is centred around one Sierra Leonean mask, a ‘sowei’ mask of the all-female Sande societies, worn at ritual public celebrations and ceremonies by the societies’ high officials when masquerading as the spirit of the Sande as ndoli jowei (‘the… Read More ›

• CFP: ‘Displacements. Forced Migration and the Arts’, Aarhus/Denmark 3-5 October 2013 (deadline 15 April)

  By Katie Reid on 6 April , 2013 • ( 0 )

  Call for Papers Deadline for proposals: 15 April contact: displacements2013@hum.au.dk website: http://conferences.au.dk/displacements/ Displacements: Forced Migration and the Arts Aarhus University, Denmark October 3-5, 2013 Displacement is and has always been one of the fundamental forms of human existence. Throughout history and all over… Read More ›

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