Writing for Liberty Conference Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research Lancaster University, 17-18 April 2015 Keynote speaker: Véronique Tadjo, University of the Witwatersrand Call for Papers Writing for Liberty is a two-day conference hosted by the Centre for Transcultural Writing… Read More ›
If you talk to a researcher about their PhD, I have found that there comes a moment when they reveal the ‘hidden’ thesis, the one they didn’t quite write. In history, this is sometimes prevented by archival destruction (recent or ancient),… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Dustin Zacks. The American Law and Literature movement consistently draws discussion material from the same wells. Consider a cursory search of just one database, HeinOnline, commonly used to browse American law reviews: one could spend countless hours perusing… Read More ›
The African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) invite applications to attend a writing workshop for early career scholars to be held at the ASAUK Conference, University of Sussex 9-11th September 2014. Deadline for receipt of applications: 5pm, 6 June… Read More ›
Last month I attended a seminar day at Birmingham, ‘Teaching Difficult Subjects’ (organised by the Higher Education Academy in the UK). Although the full content of the day was fascinating (and wide ranging) encompassing genocide, holocaust and ‘war studies’, I… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Daniel Watson. At the most recent Sussex Africa Centre event, Peter van der Windt – PhD candidate at Columbia University – presented his research on ‘Local institutions and Cooperation in the Presence of Migration: Evidence from the Democratic… Read More ›
Africa in Words Guest: Bronwen Everill In my three years of teaching African history at a variety of levels (first, second, and third years; MA students), I have continually been pleasantly surprised by the quality of debate that African history… Read More ›
By AiW Guest: Francesca Salvi. Offering three presentations from different department across the University of Sussex, the second postgraduate Sussex Africa Centre event, “Emerging Research Landscapes II”, furthered its aims of showcasing Africa-focused postgraduate research from a variety of perspectives,… Read More ›
By AiW Guest: Ross Wignall. First, from us at AiW, a quick intro to the Sussex Africa Centre, a new initiative in its founding year, celebrating the University of Sussex’s history of international scholarship and engagement with the African continent…. Read More ›
By AiW Guest: An anonymous academic labourer, somewhere in the South-East of England. Recently I helped teach a course on South African protest and resistance literature. We looked at fiction and poetry from the late 1970s to the late 80s,… Read More ›
AiW Guest Amber Murrey An influential Pan-Africanist and historian, Walter Rodney’s work provides guidance, invigoration and sustenance to PanAfricanists, scholars of Africa and the African Diaspora, and those interested in the socio-historical roots of social inequality. As a university professor in… Read More ›
As early as 1886, Lagosian intellectuals were engaged in changing racist and stereotyped ideas of Africa and Africans. They made a conscious effort in showing an intellectual and vibrant city, interconnected to Europe and the Americas. In my thesis Producing… Read More ›
Sometimes apparently everyday topics of life can lead to rich rewards in terms of historical study. One example of this is (I hope she won’t mind me saying) is Kristin Mann’s study of men and women’s marrying patterns in Lagos… 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 ›
Africa in Words Guest: Gavin Brown. When I set out to research the history of the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in London, I knew I could trace enough former participants in that protest to make the project… 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 ›
I’m delighted to introduce this post from Africa in Words Guest author, Louise Müller for the ‘African classics’ series. As Nara discussed last week, this series aims to give a fresh or alternative insight, giving our readers a chance to… Read More ›
AiW Guest Sara Marzagora. This post is the second in an occasional series of writer profiles, looking especially at those working in African languages. The first post in our series was on Akinwumi Isola. Mengistu Lemma (1928-1988) If you ask… Read More ›
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