Author Archives

• Review: Introduction to the filmmaker Tunde Kelani and review of his film Pyrolysis or Paralysis

  By mattlecznar on 1 June , 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest: Babatunde Onikoyi Tunde Kelani is the preeminent Nigerian filmmaker and one of the most distinguished in Africa. His cinematographic endeavours, under the stables of Mainframe Television and Film Production and situated in the heart of the city of… Read More ›

• Betwixt and between: A review of Mitu’s Spice Tour by Blessing Musariri

  By mattlecznar on 23 March , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Joanna Skelt This month, Joanna Skelt continues our deep dive into Eight New Generation African Poets with a review of Blessing Musariri’s Mitu’s Spice Tour. With a title evocative of a culinary travelogue, dreamcatcher-esque cover iconography and powerful series… Read More ›

• How to Write (and Draw) History in Africa: A Review of Abina and the Important Men

  By mattlecznar on 23 February , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Tamara Moellenberg The second edition of Trevor R. Getz’s and Liz Clarke’s Abina and the Important Men (OUP, 2016) creates a scholarly ‘forum’ around Abina, a nineteenth-century Ghanaian woman who sought her freedom from slavery through the British… Read More ›

• Review of Amid the Chaos by Nathan H. Mogos

  By mattlecznar on 9 February , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Allison Shelton Early in Nathan H. Mogos’s novel, Amid the Chaos (CreateSpace Publishing, 2016), best friends and partners in crime Misghe and Chenkelo express their opposing views regarding life in Asmara, capital city of Eritrea: “‘It is just not… Read More ›

• Film Review: Hissene Habré: A Chadian Tragedy by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

  By mattlecznar on 26 January , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Dare Dan Have you seen Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing (2012), the gruelling tale of the annihilation of communists in 1965/66 Indonesia? Well, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Hissene Habré: A Chadian Tragedy is such a story; no less provoking,… Read More ›

• Review of The Chameleon House: Short Stories by Melissa de Villiers

  By mattlecznar on 12 January , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Anu Kumar In the title story in Melissa de Villiers’ collection The Chameleon House (Modjaji Books, 2015), Dena, the one who seemingly holds the group together, is always the outsider. As the unnamed narrator reveals, Dena tastes the… Read More ›

• Innovative exhibition puts African cities on the fashion map

  By mattlecznar on 22 December , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Harriet Hughes Fashion Cities Africa, the first major UK exhibition dedicated to presenting contemporary African Fashion design, opened at Brighton museum in April 2016. The aim of the exhibition is to present the fashion cultures of four African… Read More ›

• ‘(Re)Viewing the Visual: Art, Photography, Film’ – Reflections on the 5th African Popular Cultures Workshop at the University of Sussex, 19 April 2016

  By mattlecznar on 27 June , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Aiw Guest: Matthew Lecznar Now in its fifth year, the University of Sussex’s African Popular Cultures Workshop creates a lively space where practitioners, researchers and enthusiasts alike come together to consider and celebrate aspects of cultural production in Africa and… Read More ›

• Q&A with Toni Stuart: Poetry gives people the power to make their voices heard

  By mattlecznar on 23 May , 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest: Matthew Lecznar Toni Stuart is a South African poet, performer and spoken word educator, who presently works between Cape Town and London. Her work has been published in anthologies, journals and non-fiction books in South Africa and internationally. In 2013,… Read More ›