(c/o the Heritage Portal) Following on the success of the 2013 and 2014 WAM lecture series’ on African art, Wits Art Museum (WAM) and The Centre for Creative Arts of Africa (CCAA) will present this year’s lecture series, South African… Read More ›
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Marlene Dumas at the Tate Modern
Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden Tate Modern, London 5 February – 10 May 2015 Marlene Dumas is one of the most prominent painters working today. Her intense, psychologically charged works explore themes of sexuality, love, death and shame, while… Read More ›
Some South African Literary Events in focus this week
Congratulations to Songeziwe Mahlangu who has won the #EtisalatPrize2014 #EtisalatPrizeforLiterature! — pen_southafrica (@pen_southafrica) March 15, 2015 As South African writer Songeziwe Mahlangu, with his novel Penumbra (Kwela, 2013), is announced as the winner of the second Etisalat Prize for Literature –… Read More ›
GRID Cape Town Photography Biennial – until March 15
Few days left to catch the GRID Cape Town Biennial: 14 Feb – 15 March 2015: GRID is an international photography biennial which is to be organized in several important upcoming creative cities in the world. GRID brings together formal… Read More ›
Terra incognita. Uncharted depths. Africa unknowable.
Short Story Day Africa‘s second collection of short stories Terra Incognita is an anthology of new speculative fiction from Africa, featuring the top nineteen stories from SSDA’s 2014 competition, edited this year by Nerine Dorman. This carefully curated collection is harvested from entries… Read More ›
CFP: Writing South Africa Now
Writing South Africa Now in conjunction with the Southern African Poetry Project University of Cambridge 26-27 June 2015 Venue: The English Faculty, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom CFP deadline: April 15, 2015 Writing South Africa Now is the UK’s foremost… Read More ›
Africa Travels, Africa Writes. Notes on African Intellectual Mobilities.
AiW guests: Janet Remmington and Nicklas Hållén Typically Africa has been framed as a destination, not source, of travellers. Also it has been taken to be the subject, not origin, of texts. Travel and movement of Africans are too often… Read More ›
BN Poetry Award 2015 judges announced
Africa in Words is delighted to be a media partner for the BN Poetry Award 2015. The BN Poetry Award, established in 2008, is a Uganda-based award for unpublished poetry by African poets. The call for submissions for this year’s award… Read More ›
Pigeon Posts: Letters from Africa – special offer for AiW readers
We’re delighted to be able to offer African in Words readers free access to the first five staves (chapters) of Pigeon Posts: Letters from Africa. Monday 19th January 2015 saw the launch of digital serial publisher The Pigeonhole’s first real-time book, Pigeon… Read More ›
CFP: American Political Science Association Workshop on “Conflict and Political Violence”
2015 Workshop on “Conflict and Political Violence” to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from July 20-31 Call for Participant Applications Deadline: March 15, 2015 The American Political Science Association (APSA) and United States International University-Africa (USIU) are pleased to announce… Read More ›
El Anatsui at the October Gallery, 12 February – 28 March 2015
El Anatsui, Selected Works October Gallery 12 February – 28 March 2015 El Anatsui is one of the most exciting contemporary visual artists of our time. Emerging from the vibrant post-independence art movements of 1960s and ’70s West Africa, he… Read More ›
Call For Papers: Twelfth Cadbury Conference (Deadline 1 March 2015)
Twelfth Cadbury Conference: Money Judgments 21-22 May 2015 University of Birmingham, UK The Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham invites paper proposals for the 2015 Cadbury Conference, which will focus on research on money. The keynote address… Read More ›
Miners Shot Down – Film Screening, 5 Feb 2015
Miners Shot Down – Film Screening Djam Lecture Theatre, SOAS Thursday 5 Feb, 7pm In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police used live… Read More ›
CFP: Researching Africa Day (deadline 25 Jan 2015)
Researching Africa Day 2015 St Antony’s College, University of Oxford Saturday, 7th March 2015, 09:00 – 17:45 Every year, Researching Africa Day brings together post-graduate and early career researchers from across a range of disciplines. The day offers an opportunity… Read More ›
Mary Evans and Emeka Ogboh: Mirrors & Echoes Exhibition (Closing This Week – 20/12)
Mirrors & Echoes, Mary Evans and Emeka Ogboh Tiwani Contemporary Gallery, London 14 November – 20 December 2014 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to present Mirrors & Echoes – Mary Evans and Emeka Ogboh, a collaboration between these two artists. This is… Read More ›
Celebrating the Publication of Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s ‘Dust’
On 4 December 2014, in the grand setting of Marlborough House (Binyavanga Wainaina wryly explains away his lateness as a consequence of getting lost in Prince Charles’s bedroom) a polite, excited crowd gathers to celebrate the publication of Yvonne Adhiambo… Read More ›
Call For Papers: ALA Conference 2015
41st Annual Conference of the African Literature Association (ALA) Theme: African Futures and Beyond, Visions in Transition University of Bayreuth, Germany June 3rd – June 6th Colonial fantasies have imagined the African continent as the incarnation of the past, banning… Read More ›
What Are Publishers Looking For in Fiction?: Report from Ake Festival, November 2014
AiW Guest Emma Shercliff The theme of the second Ake Festival, which took place from 18-22 November 2014 in Abeokuta, Nigeria, was ‘Bridges and Pathways’. Festival Director Lola Shoneyin had emphasized that the focus this year would be ‘on building… Read More ›
Literary Studies at the African Studies Association 2014: Review
AiW Guest Nathan Suhr-Sytsma The 57th annual meeting of the African Studies Association took place in Indianapolis over the weekend of 20-23rd November, under the theme ‘Rethinking Violence, Reconstruction and Reconciliation’. A large interdisciplinary conference with more than two thousand… Read More ›
Concerning Violence: In UK Cinemas Now
Concerning Violence A Film by Göran Hugo Olsson Based on Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth In UK cinemas from 28 November 2014 – 15 February 2015 From the director of The Black Power Mixtape, Concerning Violence is one of this… Read More ›
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