“Short Story Day Africa exists because we have something to tell the world. About us. In our own voices.” Now in its third year, Short Story Day Africa sets aside the shortest day (or night) of the year – this year it’s… Read More ›
Announcements, News, & Upcoming
Meet Paul Theroux – Radio 4’s Bookclub programme
Radio 4’s Bookclub programme is looking for readers to meet the travel writer Paul Theroux and talk to him about his book Dark Star Safari, his account of travelling from Cairo to Cape Town [reviewed by John Ryle in The Guardian 2002]…. Read More ›
Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate Study Day: “Allah n’est pas obligé: The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures”
Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate Study Day “Allah n’est pas obligé: The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures” University of Stirling, 20 June 2013 Keynote Speaker: Philip Dine (National University of Ireland, Galway) PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME 9:30 – 10:15 Registration 10:15… Read More ›
Pulp what? At the Franschhoek Literary Festival – 17-19 May
Looking forward to chatting about all things African pulp fiction (with pulp zine Jungle Jim in the main frame from at least me) at this year’s Franschhoek Literary Festival – with Sean O’Toole, Jenna Bass (of Jungle Jim editorial fame, among a host of other fames), Stacy… Read More ›
Global and Imperial History Network PG and Early Career Workshop, 30 May 2013.
The Global and Imperial History Network, Thursday 30 May 2013. The Department of History at the University of Exeter will be hosting a workshop on Thursday 30 May 2013 for postgraduate students and early careers researchers who are interested in… Read More ›
The Chimurenga Chronic, now-now – first print issue of pan-African gazette
Now available from Chimurenga [from the Shona word for “revolutionary struggle”]: the CHRONIC – a new pan-African quarterly print gazette, with supplementary books review magazine CHRONIC BOOKS – see below for a preview of Billy Kahora‘s article on the Nairobi noir. The first issue takes… Read More ›
‘A Universal Archive – William Kentridge as printmaker’: touring exhibition, available until Spring/Summer 2014.
The Hayward/South Bank are holding a major, touring exhibition of South African artist William Kentridge’s work, with its provocative title, ‘A Universal Archive’, promising a trove-like collection of Kentridge’s innovative prints. With dates ranging from 1988 to new work, as… Read More ›
Cameron Platter’s ‘Everyday Apocalypse’ @ Jack Bell Gallery, until April 20.
Jack Bell Gallery 27 March – 20 April 2013 Artist’s Page (jackbellgallery.com) Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present Cameron Platter’s Everyday Apocalypse, the artist’s first exhibition in the UK.
Sites of Memory, University of Birmingham, 17 February 2013
AiW Guest Rebecca Jones Is memory imagination or plagiarism? Are artists curators or creators of memory? Is memory determined by audience? Do we remember or embroider? – these were some of the questions we sought to explore in a one-day… Read More ›
The Book in Africa: A Day Symposium
AiW Guest Ruth Bush This lively one day event took place in London at Senate House on 20 October 2012, was led by Dr Caroline Davis (Oxford Brookes) and brought together a number of researchers working in the broad area of… Read More ›
Notes from the Kwani? Literary Festival
AiW Guest Dzekashu MacViban In December 2012, I travelled to Nairobi for the 2012 Kwani? Litfest as part of the Goethe Institut’s pan-African exchange programme ‘Moving Africa’. Of the various panels and readings I attended four stood out: our Moving… Read More ›
Review: 100% Jacob Zuma
AiW Guest Emily Hogg and Benjamin Poore. In 2006 The New York Times reported that Jacob Zuma’s defence during his trial for rape was rooted in claims he made about the traditions and customs of Zulu culture. The Times wrote: “His… Read More ›
Yari Yari Ntoaso: Continuing the Dialogue
Yari Yari Ntoaso: Continuing the Dialogue is a symposium of literature by women of African descent taking place in Accra, Ghana, May 16-19, 2013. This free gathering will put writers, critics, and readers from across Africa, the USA, Europe, and the Caribbean in dialogue with… Read More ›
Conference of the Maghreb Studies Association | L’Association des Études du Maghreb (24-25 June 2013)
Colonial Heritage in the Middle East and the Maghreb: the Shaping of Hopes and Perspectives Mansfield College, Oxford: 24-25 June 2013 The aim of the conference is to examine how European colonialism and great power rivalry in the Middle East and… Read More ›
Queer Fiction from Africa collected in new magazine Q-zine
A new fiction collection from the Burkina Faso–based Q-zine aims to “decolonize the mind” by capturing the experiences of LGBTI Africans. The collection was published in February as an edition of Q-zine, a quarterly magazine by the Burkina Faso–based Queer African Youth… Read More ›
Religion, Media and Marginality in Africa since 1800: SOAS, 23-24 March 2013.
Conference 23-24 March 2013 / 9am-5pm SOAS, University of London Programme and registration details below (online registration closes at noon on March 21). The workshop is inspired by recent scholarship that examines the intersection between forms of communication and the… Read More ›
ASAUK @ 50: Events for 2013.
ASAUK @ 50 1963-2013 To mark the 50th anniversary of the ASAUK, a wide range of events will be taking place throughout 2013.
Upcoming Africa-related and free exhibitions at the British Museum, both with associated events (Sowei mask event Feb 16).
Sowei mask: spirit of Sierra Leone |14/02 – 28/04 14/02 – 21/04 | Social Fabric: African Textiles today
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