Cissé, al-Qaeed, Bakupa and Bonetti head four jury committees in Luxor African Film Festival 2014 320 films from 46 countries in this third edition Egyptian star Elham Shahine in jury of long competition Tributes to Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz and Mahamet Saleh… Read More ›
The NOVELLA (Narratives of Varied Everyday Lives and Linked Approaches) ESRC Research Node, Institute of Education and The Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London. ‘Walking the margins with Sudanese forced migrants in Cairo’. Steve Thorpe, University of East London…. Read More ›
Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS) Panel Discussion Contemporary Cultures of Opposition in Africa 15 January 2014 15:00-17:00 Room: L67 SOAS, University of London “Alternatives to manipulation and domestication of the poor in arts for development: the danger… Read More ›
AiW Guest Christine Singer. The widely anticipated film Of Good Report opened Film Africa 2013, London’s annual major celebration of film from Africa and the diaspora, on 1 November 2013 at the Hackney Picturehouse. Set in a small town in… Read More ›
Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies In association with Liverpool University Press Annual Conference Francophone Postcolonial Studies and Book Culture Friday 22 & Saturday 23 November 2013 Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E… Read More ›
We’ve had a busy twelve months at AiW, one full of firsts – such as our linked ‘Series’ posts featuring Guest contributors, and the beginnings of our Q&As. The blog has now been running for two years, and we’ve gained new followers… Read More ›
Film Africa – London’s annual celebration of African cinema – returns for a third year with a line-up of over 60 films from across the continent screening at six major venues over ten days (Friday 1 – Sunday 10 November)…. Read More ›
Wednesday, 23 October, 6:30-8PM |Kings College, London Mary Kingsley Zochonis Lecture – Adapting to climate change: Coping with the effects of weather changes in rural Sierra Leone, by Dr Kabba S. Bangura, Department of Geography, University of Sierra Leone Thursday, 24… Read More ›
SHOWCASE and Bureau Africa have just released their newest production, a series of film interviews with Ghanaian contemporary visual artists. The video project is now internationally launched under the title “The Black Stars of Ghana – Art District“ and comprises a series of documented conversations… Read More ›
From the 11th to the 19th October. The African Film Festival of Cordoba, 10 years breaking stereotypes. 66 films by 31 different countries in the programme, along with parallel activities, exhibitions and a space for professionals. The African Film Festival… Read More ›
Henrietta Rose-Innes is an award-winning South African writer based in Cape Town. I was lucky enough to be able to catch her at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in advance of her session, ‘New Voices from South Africa’, which is on the… Read More ›
This is a superb contribution to thinking about the teaching and transmutation of the culture of letters in South Africa. — Arlene Archer, University of Cape Town In this wonderfully original, intensely personal yet deeply analytical work, Carli Coetzee argues that… Read More ›
AiW Guest Justine Atkinson on the upcoming ‘Africa in Motion‘ Film Festival: Fallous is a young Tunisian boy who is always running. We follow him as he journeys through his village, down winding paths bordered with lush green forests, greeting each… Read More ›
PRATCHAYA PHINTHONG | ‘BROKEN HILL’ Chisenhale Gallery, London | 26 JULY – 1 SEPTEMBER 2013 Chisenhale Gallery presents a new commission by Bangkok based artist Pratchaya Phinthong for his first solo exhibition in the UK. Broken Hill explores the… Read More ›
The Edinburgh International Book Festival, “the world’s largest public celebration of the written word, right in the heart of Edinburgh”, starts this Saturday, August 10th, and is celebrating its 30th birthday this year (fanfare! trrumpets!). Among the variety of dynamic… Read More ›
The 5th annual European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) was held on June 26-29 this year in sunny Lisbon. A biannual affair, ECAS is the big European Africanist jamboree, organised by AEGIS (the Africa-Europe Group for Inter-disciplinary Studies) and was… Read More ›
This weekend all three editors of Africa in Words will be at Africa Writes 2013 in London – an African literature and book festival hosted by the Royal African Society. The festival is hosting some of the most exciting names… Read More ›
Friday, 5 July, 14:00–17:00 FREE (booking recommended) at the British Library Conference Centre http://www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event145399.html As part of the Africa Writes festival and in collaboration with the Caine Prize, the Royal African Society and the British Library, this event celebrates 50… Read More ›
Writing South Africa Now: A Colloquium, July 2nd, 2013 Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Tuesday, July 2nd 2013 Confirmed Plenary speaker: Dr Nadia Davids (Queen Mary, University of London) ‘Writing and Performing South Africa’s Past in the Present: an Exploration of… Read More ›
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