AiW Guest: Matthew Lecznar To sum up the varied literary legacies of the Nigeria-Biafra War (1967-70) in a single volume is no easy task. The conflict, which ended in the deaths of an estimated 1-2 million people, has produced a… Read More ›
Month: December 2016
CfP: Black and Minority Ethnic Historians’ Workshop, 20 April, Leeds, deadline: 3 March 2017
Black and Minority Ethnic Historians’ Workshop Call for Participants 20 April 2017, Grant Room (3.11), Michael Sadler Building University of Leeds People from black and minority ethnic communities are underrepresented in history as a discipline and across the Higher Education sector in general. As… Read More ›
CfP: The Red and the Black – The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic, 14-15 October 2017, Lancashire, deadline: 31 January 2017
Call for Papers: The Red and the Black – The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic Conference to be held at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 14-15 October 2017, to mark the centenary… Read More ›
Innovative exhibition puts African cities on the fashion map
AiW Guest: Harriet Hughes Fashion Cities Africa, the first major UK exhibition dedicated to presenting contemporary African Fashion design, opened at Brighton museum in April 2016. The aim of the exhibition is to present the fashion cultures of four African… Read More ›
CfP: 3rd EALCS conference, 24-26 August 2017, Dar es Salaam, deadline extended: 08 January 2017
The 3rd Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies (EALCS) Conference University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 24th -26th August, 2017 Theme: Cartographies of War and Peace in Eastern Africa Call for Papers, extended deadline: 08 January 2017… Read More ›
In Black and White… Reflections from studies about Black people in everyday Polish language and in media discourse in Poland
AiW Guest: Margaret Amaka Ohia AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin continues her series examining the relationship between Africa and Eastern/Central Europe, with this guest piece by Margaret Amaka Ohia. My studies of discursive representations of Black people in the Polish language employ a critical, applied research… Read More ›
CfP: The Deep South in the Global South, 6-8 April 2017, The University of Louisiana, deadline 20 December 2016
THE DEEP SOUTH IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH “An Interdisciplinary Conference” Sponsored by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, English Graduate Student Association April 6-8, 2017 at The University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Lafayette, LA The Deep South in the Global South Conference… Read More ›
Q&A: Uche Peter Umez interviews poet Niran Okewole
AiW Guest: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike Niran Okewole is the author of the widely-acclaimed Logarhythms. His poems have won the MUSON Festival Poetry Prizes in 2002 and 2003, and the Sawubona Music Jam/Berlin International Poetry Festival Prize in 2008. The Hate Artist is his latest… Read More ›
Event: Addis Foto Fest, Addis Ababa, 15-20 December 2016
Addis Foto Fest 2016 4th Edition 15 – 20 December 2015, Addis Ababa The saying goes that an image can tell a thousand stories, that through an image we can imagine distant lands, learn about a time and space… Read More ›
Warsaw in the 1980’s Through African Eyes
AiW Guest Mamadou Diouf AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin continues her series examining the relationship between Africa and Eastern/Central Europe, with this guest piece by Mamadou Diouf. I have lived in Warsaw for over thirty years, but I still remember January 1983. There was an on-going… Read More ›
CfP: ALA conference 2017 – Africa and the World, deadline extended: 15 December 2016
Call for Abstracts African Literature Association Conference 2017 Africa and the World: Literature, Politics, and Global Geographies Yale University, 14-17 June 2017 New deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2016 The theme chosen for the June 14-17, 2017 conference at Yale… Read More ›
“In from the Cold War”: a colloquium on Eastern Europe, Africa and cultural diplomacy during the cold war
AiW Guest: Iolanda Vasile This week, AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin continues her series examining the relationship between Africa and Eastern/Central Europe with this guest piece by Iolanda Vasile about the colloquium “In from the Cold War: Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War”, organized… Read More ›
Book Review: The Rainbow’s Heart
AiW Guest Jen Aggleton continues our adventures in African children’s literature. The Rainbow’s Heart is a picture book written and illustrated by Richard Latimer, based on the author’s experiences of travelling in Botswana in the late 1970s. Originally published in 1982, it has… Read More ›
Event: Words that travel: Rhythms of Literature, 21 January 2017, London
We are BACK! We know you have all been eagerly waiting for this announcement, some probably more than others (we know who you are…), but we are thrilled nonetheless to share with you our final instalment for 2016: Words that Travel:… Read More ›
Call for Submissions: African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism, deadline: 15 January 2017
Call for submissions: AFRICAN CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND THE RHETORIC OF HUMANISM deadline: 15 January 2017 The French social philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, in his book Being Singular Plural, (2000) posits that existence is inherently co-existence. This deeply humanistic vision of… Read More ›
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