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Katie is an AiW co-founder and a freelance editor (academic, non-fiction & fiction / script & exhibition text). Global literary and creative arts, Critical Theory, and cultural studies and/as activism - with a special focus in South Africa. Also known to be partial to formula-driven ("rubbish") watching.

- Prizewinning lecturer and widening participation to HE advocate, who has taught in literary, art history and cultural studies, with an area focus in southern Africa, since 2011. Workshops critical thinking, writing, and editing skills, focusing on finding freedom in collaborative conversation with others.

- Primary interests in creative-critical work that has text/image relations at heart, architectural and city forms, and the unexpectedly multi-modal.

- PhD (2017) looked at contexts of reception of post-apartheid literature through the various modes of the work of Ivan Vladislavić, a writer, editor, and reflexive art-essayist, whose time as Social Studies and Fiction Editor for radical publisher Ravan Press in the 80s included editing the groundbreaking magazine Staffrider.

• Willem Boshoff – artist’s talk

  By Katie Reid on 24 May , 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Thanks to Evelyn Owen and her blog African Art in London for the heads-up for Willem Boshoff at the Tate Modern last week – a highly charismatic, interesting artist’s talk, laced with Boshoff’s characteristic humour – from one of South… Read More ›

• Shakespeare in IsiXhosa, Afrikaans, Swahili, Juba Arabic, Shona and Yoruba

  By Katie Reid on 12 April , 2012 • ( 3 )

  Really excited by this – opens next weekend. Productions from South Africa, Kenya, South Sudan, Zimbabwe and Nigeria come to the UK to perform as part of the ‘Globe to Globe’ festival at the Shakespeare’s Globe in London, each presenting… Read More ›

• Seminar: The African Writers Series @ 50

  By Katie Reid on 4 April , 2012 • ( 2 )

  A seminar on African writing, on the 50th anniversary of the AWS: part of the Oxford Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar Series (see below for the aim of the Series as a whole). Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar, University of… Read More ›

• Cinema on the ground in Tanzania

  By Katie Reid on 25 March , 2012 • ( 0 )

  A documentary short by Christiane Buchmann – a name to watch for – Sinema Leo. This fantastic short, about Elisonguo Kiwia’s dream to show film and create a film industry in Tanzania armed with a van and a petrol powered… Read More ›

• Inaugural African Popular Cultures Workshop, Sussex, April 16 (2012)

  By Katie Reid on 11 March , 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  As if you are not already aware from a veritable bombardment of email publicity, or as if I don’t already know you are not able to attend (sniff) some details of a workshop on the 16th April, PLUS NOTICE OF… Read More ›

• Art Exhibition – UNITY by One-Room Shack

  By Katie Reid on 29 February , 2012 • ( 0 )

  Nigerian artist, and friend, Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, has an exhibition at the Watermans Art Centre in London.  Smooth and Emeka Ogboh are conceptual artists from Nigeria who work collaboratively as One-Room Shack. Watermans is holding a Festival of groundbreaking installations exploring… Read More ›

• Looking Both Ways – 4 week course in modern and contemporary art from Africa at Tate Modern

  By Katie Reid on 19 February , 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Intrigued by Tate Modern’s 4 week course, ‘Looking Both Ways: An Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Art from Africa’, being offered in March: “This course aims to introduce the field through four sessions that consider the careers of African artists… Read More ›

• Africa Centre Rising: Meeting Thurs January 26th

  By Katie Reid on 22 January , 2012 • ( 0 )

  An open meeting to continue debate on the fate of the Africa Centre and discuss ways forward for the Save the Africa Centre campaign in 2012: Thursday January 26th 2012 Vernon Square Campus,  Room V111, School of Oriental and African… Read More ›

• Public forum, online debate: South Africa’s new ‘Secrecy Bill’ and protection of state information

  By Katie Reid on 21 November , 2011 • ( 5 )

  

  As I post this, online debates rage about the decision made in Friday’s Mail & Guardian (one of South Africa’s leading national papers)  to run a censored article – with content blacked out – that criticised Zuma’s spokesperson, Mac Maharaj,… Read More ›