AiW Guest: Katarzyna Kubin. Iman Verjee is a novelist living in Nairobi, Kenya with two novels published by the award-winning independent, Oneworld Publications: Who will Catch us as we Fall (2016) and In Between Dreams (2014). Both novels were promoted… Read More ›
Month: September 2017
Voices from the Seventh Edition of the Open Book Festival, Cape Town, 2017.
AiW Guest: Katarzyna Kubin. One of the most exciting, world-class literary events, the Open Book Festival, takes place annually at the start of spring in Cape Town, South Africa, spear-headed by the independent bookshop, The Book Lounge, and the renowned Fugard… Read More ›
Old is New: A Review of Emmanuel Dongala’s Jazz and Palm Wine
AiW Guest: David Borman I first encountered Jazz and Palm Wine in fragmentary form. As a student who read French poorly yet took a course on Francophone African Literature, I was allowed to read translations of our coursework, and… Read More ›
CFP/Appel: African Literature and the Press / Presse et littérature africaine(s)
19 – 20 March 2018 – Conference – Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3 – RIRRA21 African Literature and the Press / Presse et littérature africaine(s) Call for papers / Appel à communications Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2017. The principal language of… Read More ›
Okey Ndibe’s orchestra
AiW Guest: Pelu Awofeso “I am a student of Chinua Achebe,” Okey Ndibe says near the end of his reading at University of Lagos’ Faculty of Arts last July. “But as a writer, my temperament is between [Wole] Soyinka, Achebe… Read More ›
Event/s: Fashion Africa with Brighton Museum & Art Gallery – Wikithon (23/09) & Textile Study Day (29/09)
Saturday 23 September: African Fashion: Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon event 10:30-16:30, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, FREE (part of Brighton Digital Festival) Come and help update Wikipedia, to provide more articles and images on African fashion and textile design. Full training and support… Read More ›
The global concerns of southern African photography
AiW Guest: Oyedepo Olukotun It is interesting to observe that a number of the 2017 summer exhibitions in London, UK, have coalesced around the storyline of Blackness. On the forefront with this storyline is Tate Modern’s Soul of a Nation:… Read More ›
Event: Coetzee & the Archive Conference, Thursday 5 – Friday 6 October 2017, Senate House, London.
Coetzee & the Archive 5-6 October 2017 School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London http://www.coetzeeandthearchive.co.uk/ Convenors: Marc Farrant (Goldsmiths) & Kai Easton (SOAS) (Note: the Coetzee reading and event has been rescheduled to Friday 6 October due to… Read More ›
Self-help as Warfare: Lola Akande’s campus novel and What it Takes to be a Woman who Succeeds on a University Campus
AiW Guest: Carli Coetzee The title of Lola Akande’s novel What it Takes can be interpreted in more than one way. The novel can be read as a celebratory narrative of the extraordinary achievements of the protagonist, Funto Oyewole, as… Read More ›
Call for Papers: 2nd Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation International Conference 2018
2nd Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) International Conference 22-24 March 2018 University of the Witwatersrand CALL FOR PANELS AND PAPERS Conference Theme Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) is a research network launched in July 2015 with the aim… Read More ›
Call for Writers/Illustrators: An Invisible Borders Project, deadline 9 October 2017
The journey series: An Invisible Borders Project 28 August 2017 | by Innocent Ekejiuba As part of our goal to redefine the place of contemporary Africans in the world, and to foster understanding of African experiences and identities, Invisible Borders will embark… Read More ›
Event: Travelling with Coetzee, 29 Sept – 1 Oct 2017, Oxford
Travelling with Coetzee, Other Arts, other Languages 29 September – 1 October 2017, Oxford Travelling with Coetzee: Other Arts, Other Languages is a two-day conference on the work of J.M. Coetzee to be held at the University of Oxford on 29-30 September. The conference aims… Read More ›