“Art and Ideology in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Fiction – -A Classic Anthology” Edited by: Ernest N. Emenyonu, Iniobong I. Uko, & Patricia T. Emenyonu Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie… Read More ›
AiW Guest Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire I thought that Ben Okri’s December 2014 infamous Guardian essay in which he berated African and black writers for suffering under a mental tyranny of subject was too prescriptive and an inaccurate reading of contemporary African… Read More ›
From the Journal of African Cultural Studies African Literature Association Conference Atlanta, USA April 6-9, 2016 http://africanlit.org/annual-conference/upcoming-conference/ “Boredom” Panel organizers: Carli Coetzee and Ato Quayson In a public lecture titled “Being African in the World” delivered in Johannesburg, South Africa,… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Madhu Krishnan In the just sixteen years that it has existed, the Caine Prize for African Writing has made an indelible mark, if not on African literature itself, then certainly on the critical discourses which surround it. With… Read More ›
AiW Guest Steve Haines Sunday’s panel session Facing Forward was introduced by the chair, festival curator Hannah Pool, as bringing together the many strands of Africa Utopia and giving an opportunity for speakers from diverse disciplines to reflect on the… Read More ›
From the Northern Comparative Literature Network Comparative Literature and Globalisation Today Inaugural Seminar of The Northern Comparative Literature Network Saturday 24 October 2015, Birmingham City University Globalization, and the various nationalist, religious and cultural resistances to it, might be said… Read More ›
Posted in the run up to our review of the Caine Prize 2015 anthology Lusaka Punk and Other Stories, as part of a follow up series to our 2015 Blogging the Caine Prize – open to the ongoing public conversation the prize, and… Read More ›
Southbank Centre, London 10-13 September 2015 Africa Utopia is back for a third year celebrating the arts and culture of one of the world’s most dynamic and fast-changing continents. The festival looks at how Africa can lead the way in… Read More ›
By AiW Guest: Pede Hollist AiW note: Pede Hollist is the author of the novel So the Path Does Not Die (recently reviewed by Rashi Rohatgi for AiW) and the Caine Prize shortlisted story ‘Foreign Aid‘. Speaking at the Africa Writes festival… Read More ›
Shortly before Namwali Serpell became the sixteenth winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, I had the chance to ask her a couple of questions about reading her winning story ‘The Sack’ and its many modes of uncertainty. This Q&A forms part… Read More ›
By AiW Guest Rashi Rohatgi. So the Path Does Not Die (Jacaranda Press, 2014), the African Literature Association’s Book of the Year by Caine Prize 2013 shortlisted author Pede Hollist, promises to be an ‘issues’ book: its protagonist, Finaba, loses her… Read More ›
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