Africa in Words has been taking a break over the holiday season, but we couldn’t resist taking a look back over the memorable year that has been 2015. Here, some of our Editors reflect on their highlights of 2015. We’d… Read More ›
Month: December 2015
CfP: “Stories that float from afar”, Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 11 –15, 2016 – Deadline 1 February 2016
“stories that float from afar” The idea of postcolonial culture: inclusions and exclusions The 17th Triennial ACLALS Conference Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 11 –15, 2016 – Deadline 1 February 2016 In a piece recorded in 1873, only fifty kilometres from… Read More ›
Review: Ebola ’76 by Amir Tag-Elsir
AiW Guest: Réhab Abdelghany Ebola ’76 is a short novel by acclaimed Sudanese writer Amir Tag-Elsir, whose The Grub Hunter (2010) was short-listed for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2011 and long-listed for the Arab Booker. Published originally… Read More ›
CfP: Igbo Fusions: Past, Present and Futures, London, 1-2 April 2016, Deadline 31 December 2015
Igbo Fusions: Past, Present and Futures 5th Annual International Igbo Conference 1-2 April 2016 – SOAS, University of London, UK Deadline: 31 December 2015 The Annual Igbo Conference has carved out a unique space, serving as a bridge between the… Read More ›
CfP: Special issue: Spatialities and Colonial Legacies/Locations in Postcolonial Literature, Deadline 15 February 2016
Spatialities and Colonial Legacies Locations in Postcolonial Literature Journal of Postcolonial Writing Deadline 15 February 2016 Space has been a central concern of postcolonial studies since the 1978 publication of Said’s Orientalism and its exposition of the ‘imaginative geographies’ of colonial conquest…. Read More ›
List in the new ‘Small Publishers’ Catalogue: Africa’ – for March 2016
The 2016 Small Publishers’ Catalogue: Africa is calling for people who want to list or advertise in its latest edition. Reviewing the last one in 2013, we agreed with Publishing Perspectives that it was ‘a beauty’ – and the very definition of something… Read More ›
Ethiopia in Transition at Film Africa 2015
AiW Guest: Mike Thomas Four years after Lindiwe Dovey and Namvula Rennie founded Film Africa in 2011, in association with the Royal African Society (RAS) and SOAS, the 2015 edition of the film festival offered the Ethiopia in Transition strand,… Read More ›
Leading African Publisher to launch in the UK introducing the finest new voices from the continent
Cassava Republic Press, a leading African publishing house, is set to launch in the UK in April 2016 it was announced today. Introducing an eclectic list of quality literary fiction, crime, young adult fiction, children’s books, and romantic fiction under… Read More ›
Fiction Writing Workshop with Taiye Selasi, Nnedi Okorafor and Helon Habila: Ake Arts & Book Festival, Review
Africa in Words Guest: Socrates Mbamalu Now in its third year, the Aké Arts and Book Festival is perhaps not only the largest and best organised gathering of African writers on the continent, but also the most representative of significant debates… Read More ›
From Aké to Kwani? Litfest: Ten Questions with Taiye Selasi
This year the Aké Review (the official journal of the Aké Arts and Book Festival) asked guests ten questions ahead of the festival – from whether they write in their mother tongue to what karaoke song they would like to sing. Two of these… Read More ›
Event: Women and HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Medicine, Art, Activism, 7-8 December 2015, London
7-8 December 2015 Keynes Library (43 Gordon Square), Birkbeck, University of London, School of Arts The crisis of HIV/AIDS in South Africa is clearly not over. Women and children are bearing the brunt. Our symposium draws attention to the particular… Read More ›
From Aké to Kwani? Litfest: Ten Questions with Siphiwo Mahala
This year the Aké Review (the official journal of the Aké Arts and Book Festival) asked guests ten questions ahead of the festival – from whether they write in their mother tongue to what karaoke song they would like to sing. … Read More ›
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