The role of arts in the fight for environmental justice in West Africa and beyond 5 February 2016, 18:30 – 20:00, British Library London Just over twenty years ago writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni activists were executed… Read More ›
Bare Lit Festival: a literary festival focused entirely on writers of colour to highlight the amazing work being produced by Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic writers. This February a new festival is set to change the UK literary landscape: Bare… Read More ›
AiW Guest Joanna Woods With the publication of Pan African Publisher’s new speculative fiction anthology, Imagine Africa 500, two featured writers from Malawi, Muthi Nhlema and Tiseke Chilima, join me for a short interview on their stories. At Kwaharaba Book… Read More ›
The Performance of Pan-Africanism: from Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals International Conference 20-22 October 2016 Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University Keynote speakers: Andrew Apter (UCLA), Cheryl Finley (Cornell University), Souleymane Bachir… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Danielle Faye Tran. “It is my wish […] that people should know I died of AIDS” (27) -from a letter written by character Zola to be read aloud at her vigil The spread of HIV creates a tense… Read More ›
African Voices @ UCL Transcending the Past and Reimagining the Future of the South African University 25 January 2016, 6pm JZ Young Lecturer theatre (access direct from Gower Street), Gower Street, London In South Africa, student protests over the escalating… Read More ›
West African Literature and Thought in French: Translating Cultures Friday 22 January 2016, 10.30-17.00, British Library Conference Centre Some of the most important contemporary writing in French has emerged from West Africa. This event brings together authors (leading… Read More ›
Setting Forth At Dawn A Workshop on the Geopolitics and Practices of Writing and Publishing in Africa 16 – 20 May 2016 / 8 -12 Genbot 2008 Hosted by the College of Law & Governance in collaboration with the Office of the Vice… Read More ›
First: these chapbooks are beautiful. Even on an e-reader, sapped of gravitas, Ibibio artist Imo Nse Imeh’s cover art adds a Chagall-ian layer of both modernism and ethnic nostalgia to this box set, to which Peter Akinlabi, Viola Allo,… Read More ›
15 – 22 January 2016, Goethe Institute Nairobi Who I Am, Who We Are is an art project which examines the idea of Kenyan nationhood and how this is embodied through our sense of identity and our everyday interactions. The project… Read More ›
23 January 2016 Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London Afrikult. presents the first of the three-part series Words that Travel. Running throughout 2016, each event focuses on particular mediums and traditions of African literature with the first featuring African… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Uche Peter Umez Widely regarded as one of Nigeria’s leading performance poets, Efe Paul Azino has been a headliner at many of the nation’s premier poetry venues. He is the Director of the Lagos International Poetry Festival,… Read More ›
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