AiW Guest: Stephanie Selvick I asked Makhosazana Xaba what it was like hearing that her debut collection of poetry, These Hands: Poems (2005), was accepted by Modjaji Books for a reprint due to demand by readers and teachers. “There is… Read More ›
Month: November 2017
Event: LUCAS Annual Lecture with Professor Ato Quayson (06 Dec, University of Leeds)
LUCAS Annual Lecture We are delighted to announce details of the LUCAS Annual Lecture for this academic year: Conscripts of Colonial Modernity in Chinua Achebe’s Rural Novels Professor Ato Quayson (New York University)
CfP: Archives of Resistance (deadline Jan 15th, 2018)
Image via The National Archives UK Archives of Resistance: Cosmopolitanism, Memory and World Literature Three-Day International Conference University of Leeds, June 20-22 2018
CFP: Small Magazines, Literary Networks and Self-Fashioning in Africa and its Diasporas (deadline for abstracts 30 Nov)
CFP Small Magazines, Literary Networks and Self-Fashioning in Africa and its Diasporas 19-20 January 2018 University of Bristol, UK This two-day conference seeks to explore the role of small magazines, literary journals and periodicals and other alternative print cultures from… Read More ›
CFP: African Street Literatures (abstracts deadline 15 Dec, 2017)
This is an open call for papers for a special issue of English Studies in Africa that will focus on African street literature. By this, the editors mean literature that emerges and is shaped by the specific factors determining everyday… Read More ›
Neatly packaged snapshots of often inaccessible headlines: A Review of The Hamburger that Killed Jorge
AiW Guest: Nafeesah Allen The Hamburger that Killed Jorge is an anthology of short stories, written by young and emerging Mozambican writers, meant to open an aperture for a new branch of crime fiction. Born out of a 2016 national… Read More ›
Event: Black Book Swap 10 (London, Sat. Nov 18)
BLACK BOOK SWAP 10 Saturday 18 November 2017 – Omnibus Theatre, London SW4 0QW Black Book Swap, London’s premier event dedicated to the work of Black authors, returns on Saturday 18 November, from 12:30 – 4:45pm. Get your tickets for the tenth… Read More ›
Event: Bertha DocHouse presents: Thank You for the Rain
Bertha DocHouse (London) presents Thank You for the Rain From 17 November | Bertha DocHouse (based at Curzon, Bloomsbury)| Tix £9 (£7 conc.) From Friday, 17th November, Bertha DocHouse (dochouse.org – who recently brought us the debut feature from Swedish director Theresa Traoré… Read More ›
Review: African Roads (‘L’Afrique des routes’) exhibition
AiW Guest Connor Pruss. The Quai Branly Museum (Musée du Quai Branly) in Paris currently features the exhibition “African Roads (‘L’Afrique des routes’)” from Jan. 31st – Nov. 12th, 2017. In the introduction, the curators propose to challenge the preconception… Read More ›