At 23 years of age, Thulani Lupondwana is one of the few Facebook diary writers from South Africa who has continued to capture readers’ interest and “likes.” Following the enormous success of Mike Maphoto’s Diary of a Zulu Girl in… Read More ›
Month: March 2017
CfP: Africa and New Networks of Cultural Mobility, 6-7 Oct 2017, Toronto, deadline: 1 Apr 2017
Call for Papers Africa and the New Networks of Cultural Mobility Opportunities, Strategies and Limitations University of Toronto, October 6-7, 2017 “Issues of culture and identity have come to the forefront of international relations. This is not a passing… Read More ›
Betwixt and between: A review of Mitu’s Spice Tour by Blessing Musariri
AiW Guest: Joanna Skelt This month, Joanna Skelt continues our deep dive into Eight New Generation African Poets with a review of Blessing Musariri’s Mitu’s Spice Tour. With a title evocative of a culinary travelogue, dreamcatcher-esque cover iconography and powerful series… Read More ›
CfP: Festschrift for Niyi Osundare at 70, deadline 15 May 2017
STYLISTICS, LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: A FESTSCHRIFT FOR NIYI OSUNDARE AT 70 Professor Oluwaniyi Osundare – NNOM, scholar, teacher, stylistician, poet, playwright, public intellectual, newspaper columnist, etc. – will be seventy years old on March 12, 2017. The multiple award-winning poet… Read More ›
CfP: Strategic Narratives of Technology and Africa, 1-2 Sept 2017, Madeira, deadline: 1 May 2017
Strategic Narratives of Technology and Africa September 1-2, 2017, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Funchal, Portugal Submission deadline: 1 May 2017 http://snta.m-iti.org/ Thematic Overview In 1884, a group of thirteen European policymakers met to negotiate standards for the “effective occupation” of… Read More ›
South African author, Henrietta Rose-Innes, on cityscapes, self-contained stories, and Cape Town
AiW Guest: Sana Goyal Edited excerpts from the Conversations in Bloomsbury event (March 10, 2017), held at SOAS, London, and which hosted Henrietta Rose-Innes and Brian Chikwava. When Brian Chikwava and Henrietta Rose-Innes found themselves at SOAS for a… Read More ›
Event: Literature and the Humanities in an Age of Autocracy Workshop, 24 March 2017, Bristol
Literature and the Humanities in an Age of Autocracy Workshop 24 March 2017 |University of Bristol 10.00-18.00 This third and final workshop in the ‘Ethics, Affect and Responsiblity: Global Citizenship and the Act of Reading’ will take place… Read More ›
Review – Film about South African struggle hero Solomon Mahlangu opens in local cinemas
AiW author: Heather Walker. A long-awaited South African film about struggle icon Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu opened in cinemas across South Africa this weekend. It will also be screened in London at the BFI on Thursday 6th April. Kalushi: The Story of… Read More ›
CfP: Africa’s Informal Transport Workers: Reconfiguring the Margins, deadline: 10 April 2017
Call for chapter proposals AFRICA’S INFORMAL TRANSPORT WORKERS: RECONFIGURING THE MARGINS With its micro-level approach towards one of the most pressing urban agenda in Africa today – that of public transport – this collection of field-based studies is a timely… Read More ›
Event: Conversations in Bloomsbury: Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Nineveh, 10 March 2017, SOAS, London
Conversations in Bloomsbury: Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Nineveh 10 March 2017, SOAS, London Hosted by the Centre for English Studies, SOAS, together with the Southern Africa Seminar Series, University of London, the next edition of the Conversations in Bloomsbury events will… Read More ›
After a long break, Nigerian Theatre picks up
AiW Guest: Pelu Awofeso Actor and performance coach Toyin Oshinaike is teaching 80 thespians in an actors’ workshop at the Lagos Theatre Festival (28 Feb-5 March); all on their feet and attentive, they form a large rectangular ring around him…. Read More ›
CfP: Cahiers d’études africaines – Contestatory/Contested Images, deadline 15 June 2017
Call for Papers Cahiers d’études africaines – Contestatory/Contested Images (English below) Nous vous invitons à répondre en grand nombre à cet appel à contributions pour le numéro thématique bilingue « Images contestataires, images contestées » que nous coordonnons pour les… Read More ›
Anietie Isong’s Radio Sunrise shortlisted for the Kingston University Big Read 2017
Radio Sunrise by Anietie Isong has been shortlisted for the Kingston University Big Read project. The novel is one of the six shortlisted titles to be considered for staff and students to read before the 2017 academic year begins. … Read More ›
Event: Jalada Mobile Literary & Arts Festival, 3-31 March 2017, East Africa
Jalada Mobile Literary & Arts Festival 3 – 31 March 2017 12 cities across East Africa Jalada Mobile Literary & Arts Festival is a hybrid between a traditional festival and a bus literary and art tour, covering 12 cities/towns… Read More ›
Event: Lagos Theatre Festival, 28 Feb – 05 March 2017, Lagos
Lagos Theatre Festival 28 February – 05 March 2017 Lagos Theatre Festival founded by British Council in 2013, is a festival to present performing arts from Nigeria and the UK every february in Lagos. It has a part focus… Read More ›
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