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• Review: New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tano Part 5, Juxtapositions)

  By Africa in Words Guest on 3 June , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Rashi Rohatgi AiW note: This is the last in a series of poetry reviews on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box Set from AiW Guest Rashi Rohatgi. You can find the introduction to this series here, and reviews of the… Read More ›

• Call for Applications: Archives Workshop in Nairobi (Deadline: 7 June)

  By Africa in Words on 1 June , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘Another World? East Africa and the Global 1960s’ Week-Long Collaborative Archives Workshop Nairobi, 17-23 October 2019 ‘Another World? East Africa and the Global 1960s’ is funded by the Leverhulme Trust and will run from 1 September 2018 to 31 August… Read More ›

• Event: What Is Happening in African Literature Today? (Lagos, 31 May)

  By Africa in Words on 29 May , 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  The Goethe-Institut Nigeria and Wawa Book Review cordially invite you to the Public Conversation, ‘What Is Happening in African Literature Today?’, which offers a platform to literary critics, editors and translators to meet colleagues from different parts of the continent… Read More ›

• Living to not please the aesthetic of the colonized eye: Zanele Muholi’s “Somnyama Ngonyama”

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 May , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Bulelwa Mbele Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness is the latest release by the South African photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi. Previously breaking ground with solo exhibitions including Only Half the Picture (2006, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town),… Read More ›

• Call for Applications: Saseni! Short Story Workshop, Hargeysa International Book Fair (Deadline: 8 June)

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

  

  Hargeysa International Book Fair Saseni! Short Story Workshop Hargeysa, Somaliland 15-18 July 2019 Calling intermediate and established writers based on the African continent with an idea for a new short story that you want time, space and feedback to develop… Read More ›

• Event: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi in conversation (London & Manchester)

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

  

  Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi will be talking about her new collection of short stories, Manchester Happened, tonight in Waterstones, Piccadilly. Jennifer will also be in Manchester in June! Published by ONEWORLD on 23 May 2019, the book is a dazzling short… Read More ›

• Q&A: Peter Kimani, author of Dance of the Jakaranda, talks with Maëline Le Lay

  By Africa in Words Guest on 23 May , 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Maëline Le Lay Peter Kimani is an award-winning author. He was 1 of 3 poets commissioned to compose and present a poem marking Obama’s 2009 inauguration. Born in 1971 in Kenya, he has won the Jomo Kenyatta Prize… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Nalubaale Review (Deadline: 15 June)

  By Africa in Words on 22 May , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  We are delighted to share with you that The Nalubaale Review Literary Magazine seeks your submissions on the theme of TRAVEL. You are invited to send your poems, short stories, essays, photos, haikus, articles, legends, local folktales (original language and translations… Read More ›

• Event: Bolekaja to Bolekasoro: Why I’m No Longer Talking To Nigerians About Race (SOAS, London, 21 May)

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

  

  We are delighted to share the following information about this great event next week! Books & Rhymes in partnership with the Centre for African Studies at SOAS are excited to invite you to an event titled: “Bọ́lẹ̀kájà to Bọ́lẹ̀kásọ̀rọ̀”: Why I’m… Read More ›

• Event: ‘Romance Languages in a Global Context’, Symposium (26 June, University of London)

  By Africa in Words on 15 May , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  You are invited to join  The Journal of Romance Studies Annual Symposium: ‘Romance Languages in a Global Context’ on Wednesday 26th June 2019, at 14:00-18:30 Senate House, London The Journal of Romance Studies annual symposium celebrates excellence in modern languages research… Read More ›

• Review: New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tano Part 4, Memory)

  By Africa in Words Guest on 13 May , 2019 • ( 0 )

  AiW Guest: Rashi Rohatgi AiW note: This is the fifth in a series of poetry reviews on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box Set from AiW Guest Rashi Rohatgi. You can find the introduction to this series here, and reviews… Read More ›

• Event: Finding Africa’s 4th seminar (LUCAS, Leeds, 14 May)

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

  

  We are delighted to share the following information about Finding Africa’s fourth and concluding seminar of the term! Finding Africa is an independent postcolonial African studies platform that facilitates interdisciplinary dialogue by various agents, mainly in the form of seminars, both in academia and beyond. This… Read More ›

• The Africa Journal Work Academy: ASAA & ASAUK

  By Africa in Words on 8 May , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  We are delighted to share this announcement of the launch of the Africa Journal Work Academy. Background: The Africa Journal Work Academy is a partnership between the ASAA and the ASAUK and aims to foster inter-generational links across African institutions…. Read More ›

• Call for submissions: Wole Soyinka Prize 2019 (Deadline: 31 May)

  By Africa in Words on 4 May , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  We are pleased to share The Lumina Foundation, sole administrator of Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, has announced the call for entry for the 2019 Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa. About the Prize The Wole Soyinka… Read More ›

• Call for participants: Academic Writing Workshop, Hargeysa International Book Fair (Deadline: 20 May)

  By Africa in Words on 1 May , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Hargeysa International Book Fair Academic Writing Workshop African Literature and Cultural Production in the 21st Century 15-18 July 2019 The Hargeysa International Book Fair, in collaboration with the journal Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies and the Universities of Bristol… Read More ›

• ‘Reality the stranger fiction’: Review of Namwali Serpell’s ‘The Old Drift’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 29 April , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Charlott Schönwetter Zzz Zzzz. At the beginning and – as much shall be revealed – at the end, a swarm of mosquitoes speaks: “This is the story of a nation – not a kingdom or a people –… Read More ›

• Call for submissions: 2019 Writivism Rukiga Youth Prize (Deadline: 03 May)

  By Africa in Words on 27 April , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘A writing prize for rural-based children and youth working in Rukiga, Uganda’ The Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) invites short stories from pupils and students of Rukiga in primary and secondary schools in the districts of Kabale, Kanungu, Kisoro,… Read More ›

• ‘Every time we have an opportunity to view other people or other places, it adds value to our own lives’: Talking inclusion, community and joy with ‘Rafiki’ filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu

  By Africa in Words Guest on 26 April , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guests: Ben Apea, Aysha Taylor & Molly West Wanuri Kahiu is a Kenyan author, film director and producer, who has been making films since 2009. Her films From a Whisper, Pumzi, For Our Land and Rafiki engage with a… Read More ›

• Q&A: “My poetry feeds imagination to memory.” Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike interviews D.M. Aderibigbe

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

  

  AiW Guest: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike D.M. Aderibigbe‘s first book, How the End First Showed won the 2018 Brittingham Prize in Poetry and is published by the University of Wisconsin Press, November 2018. His poems have appeared in The Nation, Poetry Review, Callaloo, jubilat,… Read More ›

• Save the Date: International Publishers Association Africa Seminar (June 14-15, Nairobi)

  By Africa in Words on 24 April , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Petina Gappah are two of the many delegates set to attend the International Publishers Association Africa Seminar in Nairobi from June 14-15, 2019. The seminar will take place at Movenpick Hotel in Nairobi, and the theme… Read More ›

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