Author Archives

A series of Guest Author posts that open our conversations.

For more info, bios and links about each of our AiW Guests, scroll to the foot of their individual posts.

• Review: 100% Jacob Zuma

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 March , 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  AiW Guest Emily Hogg and Benjamin Poore. In 2006 The New York Times reported that Jacob Zuma’s defence during his trial for rape was rooted in claims he made about the traditions and customs of Zulu culture. The Times wrote: “His… Read More ›

• CFP: 4th Annual African Languages in the Disciplines Conference (ALD), Harvard University.

  By Africa in Words Guest on 15 February , 2013 • ( 2 )

  AiW Guest Stephanie Bosch Santana. CALL FOR PAPERS  The African Language Program in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University presents the 4th Annual African Languages in the Disciplines Conference (ALD)  Conference date: April 25, 2013 Harvard University, Cambridge,… Read More ›

• ASAUK12: the legacy

  By Africa in Words Guest on 23 January , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW guest Helen Cousins. 2012 was the year of ‘legacy’ – a notion popularised, of course, by the London 2012 Olympics. Four months on from the African Studies Association UK conference, I want to reflect on my personal ‘legacy’ from… Read More ›

• From Roswell to Rosebank – South African SF and Jungle Jim

  By Africa in Words Guest on 6 December , 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest Graham Riach. On the front cover of issue 16 of Jungle Jim,a starry sky hangs low over two Zulu tribesmen, assegais held high behind their shields. Looming towards them is a muscle-bound giant with an insectoid robotic head,… Read More ›

• ‘Without warning, everything became possible’: pulp fiction and the rise of Jungle Jim

  By Africa in Words Guest on 5 December , 2012 • ( 12 )

  AiW Guest Alexander Howard.  1. As the author and editor Jenna Bass points out in the first instalment of her recent interview with Katie Reid of Africa in Words, the bi-monthly fiction magazine Jungle Jim arose out of a shared desire… Read More ›

• Jim in the Urban Jungle – South African print culture and Jungle Jim

  By Africa in Words Guest on 4 December , 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest Ed Charlton.  As an intervention into the formal space of South African print culture, Jungle Jim is certainly daring and distinctive. If not an entirely unique mode of literary production, its pulp ’zine format is, nonetheless, a marked… Read More ›

• African Book Festival, London, 26th-27th October 2012

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 November , 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest Kate Nkanza. When I first heard about the African Book Festival, I was so excited that I paid for my pass for two days straight away.

• Africa Express, London, September 8th 2012

  By Africa in Words Guest on 28 September , 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  AiW Guest Anthony Leaker. http://www.africaexpress.co.uk/ For those of you who can’t be bothered to read a long post here’s the conclusion: it was fantastic; you missed out; a genuinely once in a lifetime experience of incredible musicians and energised, inspiring, and… Read More ›