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• L’écriture conflictuelle: les ONG, la littérature africaine et l’autonomie. Compte-rendu de Au-dessous du volcan

  By Africa in Words Guest on 30 June , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Auteure invitée: Madeline Bedecarré AiW note: We are thrilled to publish today our first dual-language review! For the English-language version of this post, click here. Mi recueil de nouvelles, mi actes du colloque, avec un parfum de manifeste littéraire, Au-dessous… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Carol Bouwer & Elana Brundyn, Norval Foundation – women leading in the arts in a time of disruption

  By Africa in Words Guest on 26 June , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW guests: Carol Bouwer and Elana Brundyn “We must ensure that the women on our continent know that Elana Brundyn with her illustrious background in the art world, chose to attach her name as CEO to this great monument, and… Read More ›

• “I wish for my poems and music to do away with things I’m sure about. I wish for them to undo me, to unmake me”: Q&A with Petero Kalulé.

  By Africa in Words Guest on 23 June , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Esther Mirembe. Petero Kalulé is a composer, poet, and multi-instrumentalist. Their music can be bought and listened to via Bandcamp, and their collection of poems Kalimba was published by Guillemot Press in May 2019 – you can buy… Read More ›

• Q&A: “It has lifted the spirits of many theatre makers who were feeling isolated and frustrated”: #LockdownShakespeare and Words on the Times

  By Africa in Words Guest on 18 June , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In April, with theatre stages empty following the COVID-19 pandemic, Shakespeare ZA — a project of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa (SSOSA), set up to promote the work of South African theatre-makers, film-makers, translators, researchers and writers engaging with… Read More ›

• Words on the Times and a Past & (Everyone is) Present – Re-presenting Andrew van der Vlies’ review of Terry Kurgan’s “Everyone is Present”

  By Africa in Words Guest on 17 June , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Yesterday, we published South African artist and photographer Terry Kurgan’s Words on the Times, an AiW Q&A set that offers a space for connection during the distancing measures necessitated by the coronavirus. In her responses, Kurgan discusses the copies… Read More ›

• Q&A:Words on the Times – Terry Kurgan

  By Africa in Words Guest on 16 June , 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  Kurgan has achieved something rare in this book: a truly dynamic fusion of text and image. She brings a deep knowledge of craft to everyday images, whether she’s teasing fugitive meanings from a creased pre-war snapshot or taking the pulse… Read More ›

• Words on… Past & Present: re-presenting Jumoke Verissimo’s review of Elnathan John’s ‘Born on a Tuesday’ – The Truth Outside Context

  By Africa in Words on 13 June , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: This re-post of Jumoke Verissimo’s review of Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday (Cassava Republic, 2016), was first published on AiW as part of the celebrations for the launch of Cassava Republic Press in the UK, back on this same… Read More ›

• Words on… Past & Present: re-presenting Temitayo Olofinlua’s review of Jumoke Verissimo’s ‘A Small Silence’ – In the Dark

  By Africa in Words on 12 June , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: Reposting this, Temitayo Olofinlua’s review, sees it as the third post this week in a mini-series around Jumoke Verissimo’s haunting and lyrical debut novel published last year, A Small Silence (Cassava Republic). Earlier in the week, Verissimo offered us… Read More ›

• A Box Full of Darkness: The Spaces of Trauma in Jumoke Verissimo’s “A Small Silence”

  By Africa in Words Guest on 10 June , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: James Yeku. AiW note: Anticipating this review, yesterday Jumoke Verissimo, author of A Small Silence (Cassava Republic), offered us her Words on the Times, a Q&A set that offers a space for connection in the experiences of the… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Jumoke Verissimo

  By Africa in Words Guest on 9 June , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “A Small Silence feels like an act of literary disruption. Hypnotic, expertly crafted and full of subtle power, it challenges cultural norms around silence, darkness and solitude, leaving the reader changed in ways that are hard to define.” Irenosen Okojie, Guardian… Read More ›

• “A Thousand Tentative Tendrils”: Review of The Only Magic We Know: Selected Modjaji Poems 2004 to 2019

  By Africa in Words Guest on 5 June , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Susanna Sacks. AiW note: This review is the fourth, and last, in a series of posts on the release of two anniversary collections from feminist indy press Modjaji Books – the short story anthology published last year, Fool’s Gold: Selected… Read More ›

• In other Words… AiW’s news and May wrap

  By Africa in Words on 2 June , 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  As we move through the changed circumstances, timelines and spaces of now, we catch up on our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar, collated from across our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Please be in touch with… Read More ›

• CFP: The Art and Politics of COVID-19: West Africa (Deadline: 27 June)

  By Africa in Words on 30 May , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The Art and Politics of COVID-19: West Africa is an online-conference that will focus on artistic responses to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria and the wider West African region. The conference will examine the political management of the… Read More ›

• “But Words Grow Up and Reverberate” (Arja Salafranca): Review of “Fool’s Gold: Selected Short Stories” from Modjaji Books

  By Africa in Words Guest on 29 May , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Susanna Sacks. AiW note: This review is the third in a series of posts on the release of two new anniversary collections from feminist press Modjaji Books – the short story anthology published last year, Fool’s Gold, and… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Wesley Macheso

  By Africa in Words Guest on 28 May , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW are delighted to introduce Wesley Macheso as an Editor on the Reviews team with some of his Words on the Times – a Q&A series that offers a space to share our experiences of work, life, and our communities… Read More ›

• Words from… the bedside…

  By Africa in Words on 26 May , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In today’s digest, our Reviews team – Wesley, Tom, and Katie – share two each of what’s on – or just on top – of their current bedside reading piles…

• Q&A: “honoring the writers” – in conversation with Colleen Higgs, Modjaji Press

  By Africa in Words Guest on 22 May , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Susanna Sacks. Two weeks ago, I caught up with Colleen Higgs, writer and publisher of the independent feminist press Modjaji Books, to discuss Modjaji’s history and her own publishing activism. Higgs founded Modjaji in 2007 to build space… Read More ›

• Love, Loss and Migrant Womanhood: A Review of “Better Never Than Late” by Chika Unigwe

  By Africa in Words Guest on 20 May , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Zahra Banday. AiW note: We caught up with our Guest Reviewer, Zahra Banday, for some of her Words on the Times – an AiW series of Q&As, connecting artists, writers, thinkers and educators in our new experiences of… Read More ›

• Q&A: Words on the Times – Chika Unigwe

  By Africa in Words Guest on 19 May , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  “This collection … is so wry and so generous, so astute about human deeds and misdeeds. Under Unigwe’s masterful hands, relationship – between Nigerians and Belgians, Naijas and Oyibo, priests and parish, bosses and workers, men and women, parents and… Read More ›

• CFP: Special Issue: English Studies in Africa, ‘A Century of Modernism in African Literature and Literary Culture’ (Deadline: 01 June 2021)

  By Africa in Words on 16 May , 2020 • ( 0 )

  We are delighted to share that there will be a special issue of English Studies in Africa in 2022 on ‘A Century of Modernism in African Literature and Literary Culture’. The deadline to submit papers for consideration is 01 June 2021…. Read More ›

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