Africa in Words is taking a break from our regular content over the festive season, but we’ll be back from next week. In the meantime, it’s that time of year for best-of lists, and the African literature and arts blogosphere… Read More ›
Month: December 2014
Call For Papers: Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects in African History
Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects in African History: Rethinking Historical Evidence and its Interpretation University of Birmingham, UK 12 – 14 November 2015 What types of evidence, data, and sources can we use to expand knowledge of the African past?… Read More ›
Call For Submissions: Kwani? Poetry Anthology and The Kampala Poetry Anthology
Kwani? Poetry Anthology, Kenya Deadline: 20 January 2015 Due to the proliferation of Kenyan poetry groups and the diversity of poetic voices on the stage and page, the time has come for a forward-looking publisher to gather any such willing voices… Read More ›
Mary Evans and Emeka Ogboh: Mirrors & Echoes Exhibition (Closing This Week – 20/12)
Mirrors & Echoes, Mary Evans and Emeka Ogboh Tiwani Contemporary Gallery, London 14 November – 20 December 2014 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present Mirrors & Echoes – Mary Evans and Emeka Ogboh, a collaboration between these two artists. This is… Read More ›
Celebrating the Publication of Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s ‘Dust’
On 4 December 2014, in the grand setting of Marlborough House (Binyavanga Wainaina wryly explains away his lateness as a consequence of getting lost in Prince Charles’s bedroom) a polite, excited crowd gathers to celebrate the publication of Yvonne Adhiambo… Read More ›
Call For Papers: ALA Conference 2015
41st Annual Conference of the African Literature Association (ALA) Theme: African Futures and Beyond, Visions in Transition University of Bayreuth, Germany June 3rd – June 6th Colonial fantasies have imagined the African continent as the incarnation of the past, banning… Read More ›
What Are Publishers Looking For in Fiction?: Report from Ake Festival, November 2014
AiW Guest Emma Shercliff The theme of the second Ake Festival, which took place from 18-22 November 2014 in Abeokuta, Nigeria, was ‘Bridges and Pathways’. Festival Director Lola Shoneyin had emphasized that the focus this year would be ‘on building… Read More ›
Review: Transition Magazine’s Special Issue on Nelson Mandela (116)
AiW Guest Kristen Roupenian A surprising number of essays in Transition’s special issue on Nelson Mandela share the same basic argument: in the ongoing transformation of Mandela into a global icon, something important is being lost. Therefore, those who wish… Read More ›
Q&A: Felwine Sarr – Writer, musician and co-founder of Jimsaan publishing house (Dakar, Senegal)
Interview and translation by AiW Guest Ruth Bush Felwine Sarr co-founded Editions Jimsaan in 2012. His co-founders are Boubacar Boris Diop and Nafissatou Dia Diouf, both leading figures in the Senegalese cultural scene. Alongside Jimsaan, which seeks to showcase new writing… Read More ›
Call for Papers: The 4th Annual International Igbo Conference (deadline 16 January 2015)
The 4th Annual International Igbo Conference Theme: Igbo Womanhood, Womanbeing and Personhood SOAS, University of London April 17-18, 2015 Igbo womanhood has been central in the conceptualisation of several African feminist theories. African Womanism is influenced by ‘the Igbo concept of… Read More ›
Call for Papers: Anglica Journal of English Studies (deadline 31 January 2015)
The editors of ANGLICA: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES, an online peer-reviewed annual journal under the auspices of the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, invite submissions for our next volume. Volume 24/1 is devoted to all aspects… Read More ›
Literary Studies at the African Studies Association 2014: Review
AiW Guest Nathan Suhr-Sytsma The 57th annual meeting of the African Studies Association took place in Indianapolis over the weekend of 20-23rd November, under the theme ‘Rethinking Violence, Reconstruction and Reconciliation’. A large interdisciplinary conference with more than two thousand… Read More ›
The Supreme Price: Thinking about ‘wives’ and the gender of political leadership
For me ‘The Supreme Price’ reflects a conflict many working with questions of gender and politics in history will recognise. How to measure the significance of women who attain power through men (husbands, fathers, sons)? How important is it to distinguish between women as figureheads… Read More ›