AiW Guest Shadreck Chikoti A few months ago we laid to rest Professor Steve Chimombo, one of the leading writers from Malawi, a man of exceptional talent, unwavering in his passion for the arts. His legendary life has been chronicled… Read More ›
Month: February 2016
Call for Submissions: The African Literary Hustle, New Orleans Review, Deadline: 31 December 2016
* The African Literary Hustle* Guest Editors: Mukoma wa Ngugi and Laura Murphy When African literature is published in the West, it is too often realist, in English, and always in the spirit of Chinua Achebe. But romance, science fiction, fantasy, epic, experimental… Read More ›
Souffles turns 50: Remembering the “Breath” of Moroccan Francophone Literature
AiW Guest: Khalid Lyamlahy Khalid Lyamlahy recalls the role played by Moroccan review Souffles in initiating a new cultural movement in 1960s Morocco. This is part of our joint series with the LSE Africa blog: Reflections on African Literature taking place… Read More ›
Review: Kholofelo Maenetsha’s ‘To the Black Women We All Knew’
AiW Guest: Helen Cousins. What a bittersweet eulogy this is to the suffering of Black women at the hands (and often the fists) of Black men; not always surviving, as indicated by the past tense of the title. The novel… Read More ›
CfP: Asixoxe – Let’s Talk! SOAS Conference on African Philosophy, 28-29 April 2016, London, Deadline 1 April 2016
Call for Papers Asixoxe – Let’s Talk! SOAS Conference on African Philosophy 28th-29th April 2016, Russell Square Campus, SOAS, University of London The annual Asixoxe – Let’s Talk! African Philosophy conference has, since its establishment in 2014, been a steady… Read More ›
Of Lagos, startups, cigarettes and prostitutes: a Nigerian writer unveils his literary inspiration
AiW Guest: Leye Adenle Leye Adenle discusses how an encounter with a sex worker led to him giving her the central role in his first feature-length novel. This is part of our joint series with the LSE Africa blog: Reflections on… Read More ›
Event: Imagining African Futures, LSE Africa Talks, 24 February 2016, London
Imagining African Futures LSE Africa Talks Literary Festival discussion Wednesday 24 February 2016, 6.30-8pm NAB 2.04, New Academic Building Speakers: Leye Adenle, Jennifer Makumbi, Chibundu Onuzo Chair: Rebecca Jones, editor of Africa in Words Western media reports that ‘Africa is Rising’… Read More ›
I Am Not Done with African Immigrant Literature
AiW Guest Shadreck Chikoti I get afraid, very afraid, when somebody, anybody, prescribes to me which books to read and not to read. When somebody gives me a template of what African literature ought to look like. And boy! You… Read More ›
CfP: The Verbal Text & National Literary Historiography, 10-12 November 2016, London, Deadline 01 April 2016
The Verbal Text & National Literary Historiography An Interdisciplinary Conference 10-12 November 2016 Queen Mary University of London Call for Papers Deadline for proposals: 1 April 2016 Sustained attention to the place of the verbal text in national literary historiographies… Read More ›
Reading Lessons: The Chronic (“New Cartographies,” March 2015)
AiW Guest: Ed Charlton. When it comes to alliances and accords, Africa is full of them. Whether it is bilateral extradition treaties, regional trade agreements, or the pan-continental constitution of the African Union, there are everywhere traces of the extranational… Read More ›
Event/CfP: Celebrating Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino at 50, Kampala, 18 March 2016,
Celebrating Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino at 50 18 March 2016 Makerere University, Kampala The Department of Literature, Makerere University is organising a one-day symposium, scheduled for 18 March, 2016, to celebrate the fifty years of the publication of… Read More ›
Q&A: Juwairiyya Asmal-Lee interviews Ankara Press author Amina Thula
AiW Guest: Juwairiyya Asmal-Lee Amina Thula is the author of two Ankara Press novels: The Elevator Kiss, published in December 2014, and the forthcoming Love Next Door, which will be released on 14 February 2016. She talks here about her writing,… Read More ›
CfP: Writing South Africa Now: a Colloquium, 16th-17th June 2016, Deadline 04 March 2016
Writing South Africa Now: a Colloquium, 16th-17th June, 2016 Call for Papers: Writing the South African City Deadline: 4th March, 2016 Hosted by LSE Cities, London School of Economics, in collaboration with the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge In… Read More ›
Ẹ jẹ́ k’á sọ Yorùbá: Yoruba language resources online
The online space offers important opportunities to develop resources for African-language documentation and learning, whether drawing on the power of apps and online games to make language learning fun, or on social media, online databases and crowdsourcing as tools to… Read More ›
CfP: Music and the Arts of Africa and the Diaspora, 1-2 April 2016, New York, Deadline: 12 February 2016
41st ANNUAL CONFERENCE of the NEW YORK AFRICAN(A) STUDIES ASSOCIATION at The City College (CUNY) and Columbia University 1-2 April 2016 CALL FOR PROPOSALS / ABSTRACTS FINAL DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS 12 February 2016 THEME: MUSIC AND THE ARTS OF… Read More ›
Event: Red Africa, 4 February – 3 April 2016, London
Red Africa A season on the legacy of cultural relationships between Africa, the Soviet Union and related countries during the Cold War 4 February – 3 April 2016 Introduction to the Red Africa season Calvert 22 is pleased to announce… Read More ›
Review: Bearing Heavy Things by Liyou Libsekal
This month, Guest Reviewer Rehaana Manek continues our deep dive into the Eight New Generation African Poets. Libsekal writes as though she has witnessed. Witnessed violence, witnessed empathy, witnessed intimacy and has witnessed the bearing of heavy things. Chris Abani,… Read More ›