The School of English and the Sussex Africa Centre Postgraduate Committee invite you to the 4th African Popular Cultures Workshop at the University of Sussex Alternative Archives Monday 13th April 2015, 1.30pm – 7.30pm English Social Space (B274), Arts B… Read More ›
Month: March 2015
Modjaji’s 8th Birthday Party
On March 29th, Modjaji Books are having a party to celebrate being 8 years old this year. We are also setting up a Poetry Fund so that Modjaji Books can sustain our existing poetry publishing endeavours as well as create new… Read More ›
Event: South African Artists in Focus | The 2015 Wits Art Museum public lecture series
(c/o the Heritage Portal) Following on the success of the 2013 and 2014 WAM lecture series’ on African art, Wits Art Museum (WAM) and The Centre for Creative Arts of Africa (CCAA) will present this year’s lecture series, South African… Read More ›
Accessing academic texts on Africa beyond the firewall: New African Histories (Ohio University Press)
Open Access, the campaign to make scholarship free to read for everyone, not just those who have paid to get past the firewalls, continues to gain ground. It’s still difficult to access academic texts for those without access to university libraries. Scribd is… Read More ›
Marlene Dumas at the Tate Modern
Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden Tate Modern, London 5 February – 10 May 2015 Marlene Dumas is one of the most prominent painters working today. Her intense, psychologically charged works explore themes of sexuality, love, death and shame, while… Read More ›
Some South African Literary Events in focus this week
Congratulations to Songeziwe Mahlangu who has won the #EtisalatPrize2014 #EtisalatPrizeforLiterature! — pen_southafrica (@pen_southafrica) March 15, 2015 As South African writer Songeziwe Mahlangu, with his novel Penumbra (Kwela, 2013), is announced as the winner of the second Etisalat Prize for Literature –… Read More ›
Call For Papers: RAL Special Issue on Ken Saro-Wiwa as Public Intellectual
Guest Editor: Stephanie Newell Since his execution by the Nigerian authorities in 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa has received global recognition as a key figure in the struggle for minority people’s environmental and political rights. This special issue of Research in African… Read More ›
GRID Cape Town Photography Biennial – until March 15
Few days left to catch the GRID Cape Town Biennial: 14 Feb – 15 March 2015: GRID is an international photography biennial which is to be organized in several important upcoming creative cities in the world. GRID brings together formal… Read More ›
Terra incognita. Uncharted depths. Africa unknowable.
Short Story Day Africa‘s second collection of short stories Terra Incognita is an anthology of new speculative fiction from Africa, featuring the top nineteen stories from SSDA’s 2014 competition, edited this year by Nerine Dorman. This carefully curated collection is harvested from entries… Read More ›
CFP: Writing South Africa Now
Writing South Africa Now in conjunction with the Southern African Poetry Project University of Cambridge 26-27 June 2015 Venue: The English Faculty, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom CFP deadline: April 15, 2015 Writing South Africa Now is the UK’s foremost… Read More ›
The Valentine’s Day Anthology: a snapshot of the possibilities and challenges of African publishing
February 14th 2015 marked the publication of the Valentine’s Day Anthology, a collection of short romance stories by seven leading African authors, translated and recorded in different African languages and published by Ankara Press. AiW author Emma Shercliff reflects here… Read More ›
A brief introduction to South African house music
AiW guest: Tom Simmert In the end it’s all DJ Lunga’s fault. Without the feature about him and his label Baainar Records in the German magazine BEAT, I’d never (or at least much later) have thought about South African House… Read More ›