Africa Writes will be back for its 2017 edition at The British Library from Friday 30 June to Sunday 2 July. We are looking for volunteers who are passionate about African literature and would like to be a part of the… Read More ›
Month: April 2017
Q&A: Literary scholar and novelist Elleke Boehmer on ‘Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds’
Yesterday evening marked the beginning of ‘Great Writers Inspire at Home’ – a series of workshops running over the next term at the University of Oxford which puts reading groups into dialogue with contemporary British writers, including Aminatta Forna and… Read More ›
Event: Retrospective on Moustapha Alassane, MoMA, 12–15 May 2017
Retrospective on Moustapha Alassane, Pioneer of the Golden Age of Nigerien Cinema MoMA, 12–15 May 2017 This first North American retrospective of Moustapha Alassane (1942–2015), a pioneer of populist cinema in newly independent Niger in the 1960s and 1970s, is… Read More ›
CfP: Public Service and Community Interpreting in Africa, 6 Oct 2017, Freiburg, deadline 30 April 2017
CfP: Public Service and Community Interpreting in Africa Workshop on 6 October 2017 in Freiburg, Germany deadline: 30 April 2017 On the 6 October 2017, the Institute of Multilingualism at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, will host a 1-day… Read More ›
CfP: Workshop ‘Colonialism and education in a comparative perspective: Analysing gendered civilizing missions (ca. 1850-1970)’, 26 Oct 2017, Florence, deadline 20 Apr 2017
Call for Papers European University Institute (EUI, Florence) Workshop ‘Colonialism and education in a comparative perspective: analysing gendered civilizing missions (ca. 1850-1970)’ 26 October 2017, Florence deadline: 20 April 2017 In recent years, education has received renewed attention from… Read More ›
Event: Burning Issues in African Philosophy with Lewis Gordon, 19 Apr 2017, Columbia University
Burning Issues in African Philosophy with Lewis Gordon Date: April 19, 2017 – 7:00pm – 9:00pm Location: Heyman Common Room Free and open to the public | ID required Burning Issues in African Philosophy is curated by Drucilla Cornell and… Read More ›
Event: Legacies of Biafra Conference, 21-22 April 2017, London
The 6th International Igbo Conference Legacies of Biafra – Reflections on the Nigeria-Biafra War 50 years on 21-22 April 2017, SOAS, London The ‘Legacies of Biafra’ conference seeks to explore the on-going impact of the war locally and globally, considering… Read More ›
CfP: Africa Conference on Economic Costs of Disasters (ACECD 2017), 23-25 Oct 2017, Pretoria, deadline 15 April 2017
Call for Papers Africa Conference on Economic Costs of Disasters (ACECD 2017) The Role of the Private Sector in Disaster Risk Reduction Pretoria, South Africa on 23 – 25 October, 2017 The Africa Conference on Economic Costs of Disasters… Read More ›
Call for Poetry Submissions / Appel à contributions poétiques: A Song for Burundi, Deadline 15 April 2017.
Call for Poetry Submissions: A Song for Burundi Huza Press in collaboration with Africa Writes and Jalada Africa is pleased to announce a call for submissions for a poetry anthology from Burundians living in exile. Inspired by the creative force… Read More ›
CfP: ‘Six Mountains on her back’ (Re) thinking African Feminisms Colloquium 2017, 21-22 July 2017, Rhodes University, deadline: 15 May 2017
‘Six Mountains on her back’ (Re) thinking African Feminisms Colloquium 2017 Rhodes University 21-22 July 2017 https://findingafricaseminar.wordpress.com African feminisms have, since their inception over a century ago, been grounded in inclusive and intersectional discourses which seek to challenge and unravel… Read More ›
“German Colonialism: Fragments Past and Present” at The Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, 14 October 2016 to 14 May 2017
AiW Author: Katarzyna Kubin “In the late 19th and early 20th century, the German Empire was one of the largest European colonial powers,” states the Foreword to the catalogue for the Deutsches Historisches Museum’s exhibit on German colonial history. Unlike… Read More ›
Call for Work: Writing on Language, Culture and Development, Africa vs. Asia, deadline 30 April 2017
WRITING ON LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT, VOLUME 1, AFRICA Vs ASIA The two continents Africa and Asia contains over 77% of the world’s population, at least over 80 percent of the world’s languages and cultures, and both have lately witnessed leaps… Read More ›
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