The 2019 ASAA Conference Nairobi October 24-26, 2019 The theme of African Studies Association of Africa’s (ASAA) 3rd Biennial Conference 2019 is African and Africana Knowledges: Past Representations, Current Discourses, Future Communities. The conference will be held for the first… Read More ›
Month: March 2019
Call for Submissions: Visa Free Africa (Deadline: April 15)
You are invited to share your experiences of travelling across Africa for the Visa Free Africa Campaign! Are you a young African travelling across the continent? Have you experienced any challenges in acquiring a visa to another African country? This… Read More ›
Open Call for Submissions: Africa in Dialogue
Africa in Dialogue publishes unsolicited individual and book interviews. Submissions are open year-round. The team is drawn to creative, original and unpublished interviews no longer than 5000 words. They accept interviews between African interviewers and storytellers. The given definition of an African… Read More ›
Call for submissions: Sol Plaatje EU Poetry Award & Anthology (Deadline 31 March)
The Jacana Literary Foundation (JLF) is pleased to announce that submissions for the ninth annual Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award and Anthology is now open until 31 March 2019. Up to three poems in any of South Africa’s official… Read More ›
Experimental YA novel representative and complex: Review of ‘When We Speak of Nothing’
With When We Speak of Nothing Olumide Popoola has created a contemporary young adult novel that addresses the strains of growing up in an economy ravaged by neoliberal economic policies and a community suffering from prejudicial social policies. Popoola’s experimental… Read More ›
Call for Applications: Ife IAS Summer School, Nigeria (Deadline 30 May)
IFE INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES Theme: KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY: SCHOLARSHIP, TEACHING AND SERVICE July 21 – August 3, 2019 Ife Institute of Advanced Studies offers an international platform for nurturing a new generation of scholars. The summer institute is currently its… Read More ›
Event: Literature and Activism in the Equatorial Guinean Diaspora (Boston, 28 March)
Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel At Boston University 28 March Equatoguinean writer Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel embarked on an unexpected hunger strike in February 2011 to protest the repression of civil liberties in Equatorial Guinea. Now exiled in Barcelona, Spain, Ávila… Read More ›
Call for submissions: Bakwa Magazine 09 (Deadline: 15 March)
We are delighted to share that Bakwa Magazine is currently open for submissions. The Magazine seeks stories about your travelling experiences. “Citizenship is the most powerful currency today, often superseding race.” Vik Sohonie, Africa is a Country When you walk… Read More ›
‘Graduating to genre’: Marlon James in person and on the page
“What does it mean when you don’t think you have a mythology?” Marlon James is increasingly preoccupied by legacy. “I return to Greek tragedy before every book I write. I look for answers and Greek tragedy provides them. Or, better… Read More ›
Call for Papers: MLA 2020, African Literature to 1990 (deadline Mar. 15)
The Modern Language Association Forum for African Literature to 1990 is seeking papers for the following panels proposed for MLA 2020 (9-12 January) in Seattle, Washington: African Literature and the Cold War How does the global Cold War transform readings… Read More ›
Review: New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tano Part 2, Heartache)
AiW Guest: Rashi Rohatgi AiW note: This is the third in a series of poetry reviews on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box Set from AiW Guest Rashi Rohatgi. You can find the previous posts here and here; look for… Read More ›
Event: ‘Speaking Through Walls’, Sethembile Msezane at Tyburn Gallery, London (Until 23 April)
Sethembile Msezane ‘Speaking Through Walls’ at Tyburn Gallery, London Ends 13 April 2019 We are delighted to share that Tyburn Gallery is presenting Speaking Through Walls, Sethembile Msezane’s first UK solo exhibition. Using interdisciplinary practice encompassing performance, photography, film, sculpture and… Read More ›