We are delighted to share that The Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry is now open for submissions, and remains open until 01 December. The Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry is awarded annually to an African poet who has not yet… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Dominic Davies. A little over two years ago I travelled to Cape Town to attend FanCon 2016, an event that was then South Africa’s most attended comics convention to date. As a researcher interested in graphic narratives from… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Tadiwa Madenga Before I travelled to Kampala, I found myself shockingly motivated to finish writing an academic paper. I had just moved from Boston to Brooklyn for the summer, and in that transition, a once tedious essay felt… Read More ›
The shortlists for the 2018 Brittle Paper Awards have been announced! The award was established in 2017 to recognize the finest, original pieces of writing by Africans published online. The 31 shortlisted pieces reflect the state of contemporary African literary culture. The… Read More ›
The British Library is currently advertising for a Chevening Fellow for the following project: Research on the British Library’s African-language printed books collections The successful candidate will research at least one of the following collections: Hausa, Swahili, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu,… Read More ›
Supa Modo, Kenya’s submission to the 2019 Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category, tells a tale of terminal illness, community, and the power of pretending. When there is nothing more the doctors can do for her, Jo (Stycie… Read More ›
Ake Arts & Book Festival is fast approaching! The sixth edition of the festival will take place for the first time in Lagos on October 25 – 28, 2018. The theme for this year is Fantastical Futures and events and conversations will… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Caitlin Pearson, Africa Writes Go through the gates of the Xaranta Dhaqanka, the Hargeysa Cultural Centre in Somaliland’s capital, and you’ll encounter a courtyard of small buildings. To your right is the Cultural Centre’s library, housing a wide-ranging… Read More ›
Omenana Magazine is currently open for fiction, and non-fiction submissions from writers living in Africa or African writers living anywhere in the world for its special edition, The Urban Legend Issue. Omenana is looking out for imaginative speculative fiction (Fantasy, Science Fiction,… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Megan Ross. Before I write this review I’ll… Share my Open Book diet Too. Much. Caffeine. All the dry red at the Fugard bar. Half a bottle of single malt whiskey (and its accompanying hangover) that Helene Prinsloo… Read More ›
The African Literature Association (ALA) has extended deadlines for its book prizes this year! Book of the Year Award—Scholarship (New Deadline: November 1, 2018) For an outstanding book in African literary studies published in the preceding calendar year (2017). Authors… Read More ›
Small Country by Albertine Books in French and English You are warmly invited to this event on 27th October with French-Rwandan author and rapper Gaël Faye discussing his award-winning novel, Small Country, just translated in English and out in U.S with… Read More ›
AiW note: This is a followup to the second post in our series on African superheroes, guest edited by Tessa Pijnaker, PhD student in African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. Look out for more in this AiW… Read More ›
‘Black Women/Superheroes’ Special Issue: Transition Magazine According to Kimberlé Crenshaw intersectionality theory draws attention to Black women’s experiences of intertwined structures of power and oppression, including racism, misogyny, classism, heterosexism, discrimination based on immigration status, ableism, transmisogyny. That said, Black… Read More ›
We are pleased to share the Call for Papers and Panels for a two-day Conference on ‘Racialisation and Publicness in Africa and the African Diaspora’ which will be held at the University of Oxford, from 27-28 June, 2019. From the… Read More ›
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