Call for Papers Ọyẹ: Journal of Language, Literature and Popular Culture deadline: 28 February 2017 Ọyẹ: Journal of Language, Literature and Popular Culture is an academic journal domiciled in the Department of English and Literary Studies of the Federal University,… Read More ›
Research, Studies, Teaching
CfP: 23rd ISAPS Conference (International Society for African Philosophy and Studies) 10-11 July 2017, Vienna, deadline: 31 Dec 2016
Call for Papers: 23rd ISAPS Conference (International Society for African Philosophy and Studies) 10th and 11th of July 2017 University of Vienna (Austria) African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna (Austria) in conjunction with the IWK… Read More ›
Event: Cultural Compounds : What is this ‘New’ Black in Black Popular Culture? London, 19 November 2016
Cultural Compounds – Conference 1 19 November 2016, SOAS, London ‘WHAT IS THIS [NEW] “BLACK” IN BLACK POPULAR CULTURE?’ Stuart Hall, Social Justice (1993) We take as our starting point, the title of Stuart Hall’s essay, ‘What Is This “Black”… Read More ›
CfP: “Imagining Africa’s Future: Language, Culture, Governance, Development, SOAS Africa Conference, 20-21 July 2017, London, deadline 10 Dec 2016
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS SOAS Africa Conference, 2017 “Imagining Africa’s Future: Language, Culture, Governance, Development” 20th and 21st of July 2017 Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS-University of London deadline: 10 December 2016 The SOAS Centre of African studies (CAS) hereby calls… Read More ›
CfP: Language in the Media conference, 18-20 October 2017, Cape Town, deadline: 31 December 2016
Language in the Media 2017 Mediat(is)ing (Trans)Nationalism 18-20 October 2017 University of the Western Cape, South Africa Call for Papers The University of the Western Cape and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg are pleased to announce the 7th Language… Read More ›
Event: Creating African Fashion Histories conference, 2 November 2016, Brighton
Creating African Fashion Histories A one-day conference hosted by Royal Pavilion & Museums with the Sussex Africa Centre / University of Sussex and the University of Brighton Old Courthouse lecture theatre, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery Wednesday 2 November 2016… Read More ›
Eric 1Key’s Entre 2: Gene Aise, 1Key’s life story
AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the final post in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kiswahili and French to… Read More ›
Eric 1Key’s Entre 2: a ‘story about a hero and a coward’
AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the third in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kinyarwanda and French… Read More ›
Eric 1Key’s Entre 2 -Virtually Yours, an ‘online love story’
AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the second in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kinyarwanda and French to English. We are… Read More ›
Rwandan hip-hop poet Eric 1Key: Entre 2
AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the first in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kinyarwanda and French to English. We… Read More ›
Call for Book Chapters: Cultural Archives of Atrocity, Deadline for Abstracts: 21st August 2016
Call for Book Chapters CULTURAL ARCHIVES OF ATROCITY: ESSAYS ON THE PROTEST TRADITION IN KENYAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY New deadline for abstract submission: 21st August 2016 INTRODUCTION In Kenya, studies on atrocity have taken different discursive dimensions from history, political… Read More ›
Q&A with Ernest Emenyonu on African Children’s Literature
At the recent African Literature Association conference in Atlanta, Africa in Words had the opportunity to speak with Ernest N. Emenyonu, Professor and Chair of the Africana Studies department at the University of Michigan-Flint, about African Literature Today’s latest issue, “Children’s Literature… Read More ›
Event: The Academic Book in the South, 7-8 March 2016, London
The Academic Book in the South 7th – 8th March 2016, 9.30pm – 5.30pm, Conference Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB This two day conference discusses how profound changes in publishing will affect the Academic Book of… Read More ›
Souffles turns 50: Remembering the “Breath” of Moroccan Francophone Literature
AiW Guest: Khalid Lyamlahy Khalid Lyamlahy recalls the role played by Moroccan review Souffles in initiating a new cultural movement in 1960s Morocco. This is part of our joint series with the LSE Africa blog: Reflections on African Literature taking place… Read More ›
CfP: Setting Forth At Dawn, Workshop on the Geopolitics and Practices of Writing and Publishing in Africa, 16 – 20 May 2016, Jimma, Ethiopia, Deadline: 25 January 2016
Setting Forth At Dawn A Workshop on the Geopolitics and Practices of Writing and Publishing in Africa 16 – 20 May 2016 / 8 -12 Genbot 2008 Hosted by the College of Law & Governance in collaboration with the Office of the Vice… Read More ›
Africa in Words’ highlights of 2015
Africa in Words has been taking a break over the holiday season, but we couldn’t resist taking a look back over the memorable year that has been 2015. Here, some of our Editors reflect on their highlights of 2015. We’d… Read More ›
CfP: Special issue: Spatialities and Colonial Legacies/Locations in Postcolonial Literature, Deadline 15 February 2016
Spatialities and Colonial Legacies Locations in Postcolonial Literature Journal of Postcolonial Writing Deadline 15 February 2016 Space has been a central concern of postcolonial studies since the 1978 publication of Said’s Orientalism and its exposition of the ‘imaginative geographies’ of colonial conquest…. Read More ›
Event: From Africa to Future Study Day, The Showroom London, 14 November 2016
Saturday 14th November, 12-8pm The Showroom 63 Penfold Street, NW8 8PQ London, United Kingdom This event is a part of From Africa to Future: SYFU residency in The Chimurenga Library @ The Showroom Join sorryyoufeeluncomfortable for a Study Day to develop… Read More ›
CFP: African Travel Writing Encounters, University of Birmingham 9 March 2016, deadline 15 December 2015
AFRICAN TRAVEL WRITING ENCOUNTERS Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham Wednesday 9 March, 2016 This workshop invites scholars of travel writing by Africans, along with practitioners of travel writing, to come together to discuss the past, present… Read More ›
Call for Papers and Panels: African Literature Association conference 2016
Emory University and Kennesaw State University cordially invite you to submit your proposals for seminars, roundtables, and panels at the African Literature Association 2016 Conference, “Justice and Human Dignity in Africa and the African Diaspora.” We encourage you to share… Read More ›