Sunday 7 August 2016 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Love and War ‘Half a Yellow Sun’ Ten Years On Royal Festival Hall, London Reflect on the challenges of keeping love alive in times of war with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Adichie –… Read More ›
Month: July 2016
The Aftermath of War: A Review of the Film Ezra
AiW Guest: Dare Dan Newton Aduaka’s Ezra treads a path familiar to Africa’s cinema and literature: the tragedy of child soldiers and of childhoods broken by war. So what’s new?, I hear you ask. Produced in 2007, Ezra, which precedes Beasts of… Read More ›
Call for Book Chapters: Cultural Archives of Atrocity, Deadline for Abstracts: 21st August 2016
Call for Book Chapters CULTURAL ARCHIVES OF ATROCITY: ESSAYS ON THE PROTEST TRADITION IN KENYAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY New deadline for abstract submission: 21st August 2016 INTRODUCTION In Kenya, studies on atrocity have taken different discursive dimensions from history, political… Read More ›
An Interview with Prof. Ernest Nneji Emenyonu on Pita Nwana’s Omenuko
AiW Guest: Kalapi Sen It is a truism in today’s world that ‘African literature’ covers a major portion of literary scholarship, included now on high-school syllabi as well as at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. And one name that has… Read More ›
Call for Proposals: Special Issue on Niyi Osundare and Poetry in Nigeria, deadline: 31 August 2016
CALL FOR SPECIAL ISSUE PROPOSALS At the Crossroads of Art and Society: Niyi Osundare and Poetry in Nigeria The seventieth birthday of Nigerian poet and professor of comparative literature, Niyi Osundare, invites deeper reflection on the poet-scholar’s life and contributions… Read More ›
A Journey of Self-Discovery and Love: A Review of Frances Mensah Williams’ From Pasta to Pigfoot
AiW Guest: Jovia Salifu In From Pasta to Pigfoot, Frances Mensah Williams tells a beautiful story of cultural education, self-identity, and love. It is a story of a young black woman whose quest for knowledge about her culture and identity… Read More ›
Call for Artists and Writers: “Wild” by Artascent, Deadline 31 August 2016
“WILD” International Call for Artists and Writers by Artascent Deadline 31 August 2016 Theme: The untamed, free and undeveloped. The turbulent, unrestrained, emotional and extreme. Animals, people and places that are wild. It can be expressed in symbolic, literal, modern, traditional,… Read More ›
Event: Teju Cole presents Known and Strange Things, 9 August 2016, New York
Book Launch: Teju Cole presents Known and Strange Things In conversation with Amitava Kumar St. Joseph’s College Brooklyn, NY Tuesday, August 9, 7:30 PM Tickets $20.00 (includes event admission and a book) Since the publication and critical success of both… Read More ›
Call for Applications / Appel à candidature: Arts Management and Literary Entrepreneurship Workshop, 4th Annual Writivism Festival, 22-25 August 2016, Kampala, Deadline 29 July 2016
DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR 3 DAYS to midnight (GMT+1) Friday 29 July 2016 Call for Applications / Appel à candidature: Arts Management and Literary Entrepreneurship Workshop at the 4th Annual Writivism Festival 22-25 August 2016 Kampala, Uganda Have you set up or… Read More ›
Review: The Mirror and Nine Other Stories by Susan Nkwentie Nde
Heather Snell continues our summer voyage into children’s literature. AiW Guest: Heather Snell The Mirror and Nine Other Stories is a product of Langaa, a press with offices in Bamenda and Buea. As Langaa indicates on their website, access to… Read More ›
CfP: African and Diasporic Women’s Literature: Transitions, Transformations and Transnationalism, WAGADU Special Issue, Deadline 27 September 2016
CFP: African and Diasporic Women’s Literature: Transitions, Transformations and Transnationalism WAGADU special issue Deadline for abstracts: 27 September 2016 With the new wave of African and African Diasporic women writers, the transnational sphere has enlarged to encompass voices that were… Read More ›
CfP: Trespassing the Borders: Redefining Postcolonialism from Peripheral Experiences, 11 March 2017, Warwick, Deadline 30 Sept 2016
Trespassing the Borders: Redefining Postcolonialism from Peripheral Experiences University of Warwick – 11 March 2017 Keynote speakers: Professor Gurminder Bhambra (Warwick/Linnaeus) Professor Lucy Riall (EUI/Birkbeck College) Postcolonialism, conceived of as a critique of colonial empires in their political, social, and… Read More ›
Call for Sessions: Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe Conference, 6-8 July 2017, Tampere, Finland
1st Call for Sessions Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe Sixth biennial network conference University of Tampere, Finland 6 – 8 July 2017 African European Studies and Black European Studies explore social spaces and cultural practices that are characterised… Read More ›
Les Blancs – Farber’s production provoked reflection on innocence, the personal and the political, and choosing sides
AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin The National Theatre’s production of Lorraine Hansberry’s play, Les Blancs, directed by Yaël Farber, involved phenomenal use of sound, music and lighting, live fire on stage, and a nuanced mastery of the smallest details: from the… Read More ›
Event/CfP: 1st World Festival of Negro Arts: Past and Present (1966-2016), 8-10 November 2016, Dakar, Deadline: 30 August 2016
1st World Festival of Negro Arts: Past and Present(1966-2016), 8-10 November 2016, Dakar FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1ST WORLD FESTIVAL OF NEGRO ARTS I – ARGUMENTS At the invitation of Poet President Leopold Sedar Senghor, from 1 to 24 April 1966,… Read More ›
Do African Literary Festivals Culture (?): Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire on the Writivism Experience
Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire was formerly Programs Director at Writivism Festival. This piece, reflecting on his experience of Writivism, was adapted from a presentation he made at the 5th Annual African Popular Cultures Workshop at Sussex University on 19 April 2016. The… Read More ›
A Space of One’s Own – A summary of a conversation between the 2016 Caine Prize shortlisted writers
AiW Guest: Katarzyna Kubin With only days left before the winner of the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing is announced on 4th July, the five short-listed writers have been on a whirlwind circuit of public events throughout London, from a… Read More ›
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