BRITISH ACADEMY CONFERENCE African Multilingualism: Motivations, modalities, movement and meaning Tuesday 8 & Wednesday 9 September 2015, 9.30am – 5.00pm Venue: The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG Convenors: Professor Friederike Lüpke, SOAS, University of London, and… Read More ›
Babishai Poetry Festival 26 – 28 August 2015 The Uganda Museum, Kampala This year, we are honoured to host world-wide leading voices in poetry and to share the landscape with impressive and mind-blowing talent across Uganda. Babishai Poetry Festival, organized… Read More ›
Durban International Film Festival July 16 -25, 2015 Venues across Durban, SA Africa’s premier film event, the Durban International Film Festival, which is hosted by the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts, presents its 36th edition from 16 to… Read More ›
Reposted from the London Southern African Studies Network We are delighted to announce that the final symposium for the AHRC-funded project, ‘Sequins, Self & Struggle: Performing and Archiving Sex, Place and Class in Cape Town Pageants’, has moved to the… Read More ›
Africa Writes – the Royal African Society’s annual literature and book festival promoting contemporary African writing – returns to The British Library. Africa Writes 2015 will bring together over 70 authors, poets, publishers, critics and experts for an exciting three-day programme, including… Read More ›
Group Exhibition: The View From Here | Andrew Esiebo, Délio Jasse, Lebohang Kganye, Namsa Leuba, Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, Abraham Oghobase and Dawit L. Petros Tiwani Contemporary Gallery, London 22 May – 27 June 2015 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to announce… Read More ›
Thursday 18 June 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Book and Kitchen Join us at Book and Kitchen in Notting Hill for an evening of conversation and discussion on Somaliland with one of the country’s leading authors, Nadifa Mohamed, and journalist… Read More ›
The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa A seminar by Professor Steph Newell (University of Sussex) June 10, 11am – 12pm Seng Tee Lee Room, Senate House Library, London As part of the Scolma Lunchtime Seminar Series 2015, Professor Steph… Read More ›
On June 4 at the upcoming African Literature Association (ALA) conference at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, Africa in Words will be hosting a ‘Wikithon’ to improve the ‘African Literature’ Wikipedia page. During a Wikithon (also often called an ‘Edit-a-thon‘), people… Read More ›
Great War in Africa Conference Stellenbosch, South Africa 29 – 30 June 2015 The First World War has shaped the world in which we live. The emphasis has fallen heavily upon the Western Front. Increasing light has also been… Read More ›
African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability 15 May 2015 – 16 May 2015 CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT – SG1&2 Convenors Britt Baillie (University of Cambridge, Affiliated Lecturer in the Division of Archaeology) Chris Boonzaaier (University… Read More ›
The Royal African Society is looking for volunteers with a passion for African literature to help run Africa Writes, which returns for its fourth year running! About us Africa Writes is an annual festival organised by the Royal African Society,… Read More ›
A quick heads up that the latest issue of Saraba Magazine is now out, and available to download for free here: http://www.sarabamag.com/the-survival-issue This issue is themed around ‘Survival’, and as Saraba puts it: “A word from the 1590s, “survival” implies the… Read More ›
Yinka Shonibare Wednesday, May 13th | 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Brunei Galler Lecture Theatre (BGLT), SOAS The Centre of African Studies is honoured to welcome the renowned artist Yinka Shonibare MBE RA to deliver our annual lecture, marking the… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Tessa Lewin. On 12th March 2015 the University of Brighton was visited by two extraordinary South Africans – Zanele Muholi and Lerato Dumse. They were talking about queer black visual activism in South Africa, 21 years after the advent… Read More ›
Joyful Noise presents: Funmi Olawumi Friday 10 April, 7pm Union Chapel, London Price: £17 / £15 concessions Nigerian singer Funmi Olawumi, the leader and founder of the Yoruba Women Choir, performs an intimate show with her band as she premiers… Read More ›
As the seasons change and Spring begins to arrive here in the UK, it seems a good time look forward to some forthcoming African fiction, non-fiction and poetry releases due over the next few months. What are you looking forward… Read More ›
Future Sound of Mzansi – Film Screening 28 April 2015, 8pm Djam Lecture Theatre, SOAS dir. Nthato Mokgata & Lebogang Rasethaba, South Africa 2014, 1h38m Co-directed by performance artist and producer Spoek Mathambo, this documentary aims to explore, express, and… Read More ›
The School of English and the Sussex Africa Centre Postgraduate Committee invite you to the 4th African Popular Cultures Workshop at the University of Sussex Alternative Archives Monday 13th April 2015, 1.30pm – 7.30pm English Social Space (B274), Arts B… Read More ›
On March 29th, Modjaji Books are having a party to celebrate being 8 years old this year. We are also setting up a Poetry Fund so that Modjaji Books can sustain our existing poetry publishing endeavours as well as create new… Read More ›
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