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• Review: Moving Futures, Moving Bodies – “Acts of Transgression”

  By Tom Penfold on 27 January , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: We are particularly grateful for permission from Wits University Press to publish on Africa in Words, alongside this review of the volume, two excerpts from Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa (2019), edited by Jay… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: 9th Igbo Conference: ‘Igbo Mobilities’, Nigeria (Deadline: 31 January)

  By Africa in Words on 25 January , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  THE 9TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL IGBO CONFERENCE Igbo Mobilities: People, Trade & Knowledge 02–04 July, 2020 Princess Alexandra Auditorium (PAA), The University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria The Igbo Conference is an annual international conference usually held at SOAS, University of London…. Read More ›

• Responding to Carli Coetzee’s “Unsettling the Air-conditioned Room”: “Laboratory Building” and Africa-based and focused Literary Activism (2/2)

  By Africa in Words Guest on 22 January , 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire AiW note: Africa in Words has long been engaged with the work of Carli Coetzee, and we particularly admire the care that she takes in thinking through the nature of our work as academics and… Read More ›

• Call for Panels & Papers: ‘The Becoming of Congo: Epistemologies, Practices, & Imaginaries’, CRN (Deadlines: 15 & 28 February)

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

  

  5th International Congo Research Network (CRN) Congress 15-16 September 2020 The Becoming of Congo: Epistemologies, Practices, and Imaginaries  The Congo Research Network (CRN) is organizing its fifth international conference, to be held at the University of Milan on 15-16 September… Read More ›

• Review – The Smouldering Fires of Aké Arts & Book Festival 2019

  By Africa in Words Guest on 15 January , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Temitayo Olofinlua Earlier in the year, I watched The Hate U Give and If Beale Street Could Talk and, through these films, saw how the American justice system hurls itself against black bodies until it is bent out… Read More ›

• CFP: SCOLMA 2020: ‘Publishing, Collecting & Accessing African-language Materials’ (Abstract Deadline: 03 February)

  By Africa in Words on 15 January , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  SCOLMA Annual Conference 2020 Oun a ní la ń gbé l’árugẹ [i] – (It is the heritage we have that we must celebrate):  Publishing, Collecting and Accessing African-language Materials Monday 8 June, 2020 SALT, Paul Webley Wing, SOAS, University of… Read More ›

• Responding to Carli Coetzee’s ‘Unsettling the Air-conditioned Room’: Journal Work as Ethos (1/2)

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

  

  AiW Guest Rotimi Fasan AiW note: Africa in Words has long been engaged with the work of Carli Coetzee, and we particularly admire the care that she takes in thinking through the nature of our work as academics and the… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa (Deadline: 15 January)

  By Africa in Words on 11 January , 2020 • ( 0 )

  Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa Conference: 13-16 September 2020 Alexandria, Egypt Bibliotheca Alexandrina and The Islamic Manuscript Association—in partnership with the library’s Manuscript Center and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation—are delighted to announce the conference Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa, which will be… Read More ›

• CFP: Gender in the production and reception of the press in Africa (REAF) (Deadline: 15 January)

  By Africa in Words on 8 January , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Call for Papers Workshop: Gender in the production and reception of the press in Africa Conference of the Réseau des études africaines en France (REAF) 7-10 July 2020, Aix-Marseille This workshop will explore the production and reception of newspapers, bulletins,… Read More ›

• Call for Fellowship Applications: Cadbury 2020 (Deadline: 07 February)

  By Africa in Words on 4 January , 2020 • ( 6 )

  

  The research theme: ‘Making Sense: Language, Text and Interpretation in African Studies’. This year’s Cadbury programme is linked to the previous call for papers posted here for the conference ‘Making Sense: Language, Text and Interpretation in African Studies’ at the… Read More ›

• CFP: SAFA 2020, ‘The Past Through the Past’ (Abstract Deadline: 31 January)

  By Africa in Words on 1 January , 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Call for Papers Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAFA) 2020 Oxford, 21-24 September 2020 The Past Through the Past: Constructing Identity, Tradition, and Community in Africa In many modern societies identity and social boundaries are often constructed through binary oppositions between… Read More ›

• CFP: Making Sense: Language, Text and Interpretation in African Studies, University of Birmingham (Deadline: 31 January)

  By Africa in Words on 28 December , 2019 • ( 0 )

  Making Sense: Language, Text and Interpretation in African Studies 21-23 May 2020 Department of African Studies and Anthropology (DASA) and Centre of West African Studies (CWAS) of the University of Birmingham (UK) and the Langarchiv Project Please follow the link… Read More ›

• Season’s Readings from AiW’s #24Books

  By Africa in Words on 25 December , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

• Call for Papers: “Towards the African Renaissance” G-PAC, Mboka Festival (Deadline: 23 December)

  By Africa in Words on 21 December , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Towards the African Renaissance’ The Global Pan-African Conference (G-PAC) The Gambia 25 – 26 May 2020. We are delighted to share this call for papers for the inaugural Gambia-based Global Pan-African Conference 2020, which commemorates the 120th anniversary of the… Read More ›

• Review – Against conventions: on Femi Morgan’s Renegade (2019)

  By Africa in Words Guest on 19 December , 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè. Sometimes, impositions on our spaces and feelings – in the form of law, tradition or custom – try to curtail our inclinations and stifle our freedom of expression. In some nations subject to despotic regimes, restrictions are… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: Africa 2020 (Abstract Deadline: 01 January)

  By Africa in Words on 18 December , 2019 • ( 0 )

  Africa 2020 ‘Artistic, Digital, and Political Creation in English-Speaking African Countries’ Building on the recent partnership signed between Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) and the Festival de Marseille, the peer-reviewed journal of AMU research centre on Anglophone Studies (LERMA), E-rea, has decided to… Read More ›

• Festive Favourites: Season’s Reading from Africa in Words

  By Tom Penfold on 16 December , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  It is that time of year again when the holiday spirit begins to grow. For some, it is a time to spend with family and get away from it all. For others, the holidays might just be a good chance… Read More ›

• CFP: African Literature Association 2020 (Proposal deadline: 15 December)

  By Africa in Words on 14 December , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  African Literature Association 46th Annual Conference ‘Beyond Censorship?’ May 27th – 31st, 2020 Washington D.C. Censorship, from colonial times until the crumbling of authoritarian regimes in the 1990s, was a threat hovering over the landscape of the first generations of writers,… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: Digital Humanities and the Future of Chronicling the African Past (Deadline: 15 December)

  By Africa in Words on 11 December , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  CALL FOR PAPERS: DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND THE FUTURE OF CHRONICLING THE AFRICAN PAST The incoming editors of History in Africa are inaugurating thematic issues as part of a new feature highlighting how Africanists are engaging with key trends in history and methods…. Read More ›

• Event: Crater Literary Festival, Enugu (12-14 December)

  By Africa in Words on 7 December , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  In partnership with AfricaWeek UK, the 3rd edition of Crater Literary Festival will be held in Enugu, Nigeria from 12 to 14 December, 2019. The theme is ‘Literary Renaissance in Africa’. The 3 day event is a celebration of African literature, art, drama, poetry, and… Read More ›

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