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• Review: Oyeyemi’s ‘Gingerbread’ has “no nostalgia baked in”

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

  

  AiW Guest: Caitlin Bridget Shewell-Cooper. My friends have long heard my complaints that Helen Oyeyemi’s UK covers have never done the books justice. Too twee, too generic, chill out, Caitlin. The Riverhead Books US edition of Gingerbread, featuring a dark… Read More ›

• Save the date: Brunel International African Poetry Prize 2019, winner announced 30 May

  By Africa in Words on 6 April , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Did you see that ten up-and-coming African poets have been announced as the shortlist for the seventh Brunel International African Poetry Prize, a major annual prize aimed at the development, celebration and promotion of poetry from Africa? The £3000 Prize,… Read More ›

• Event: Zeitz MOCCA Afro-futures exhibition #2 (Opens 5 April, Cape Town)

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

  

  Chapter Two of the Afro-futures exhibition, Still here tomorrow to high five you yesterday… opens with the launch of Dubship I – Black Starliner by artist, Ralph Borland. Join the launch on 5 April 2019 for music, talks and refreshments, in the BMW… Read More ›

• Review: New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tano Part 3, Politics)

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

  

  AiW Guest: Rashi Rohatgi AiW note: This is the fourth 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 ›

• Call for Papers and Panels: ASAA Conference 2019 (Deadline: May ,15 & 30)

  By Africa in Words on 30 March , 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  The 2019 ASAA Conference Nairobi October 24-26, 2019 The theme of African Studies Association of Africa’s (ASAA) 3rd Biennial Conference 2019 is African and Africana Knowledges: Past Representations, Current Discourses, Future Communities. The conference will be held for the first… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Visa Free Africa (Deadline: April 15)

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

  

  You are invited to share your experiences of travelling across Africa for the Visa Free Africa Campaign! Are you a young African travelling across the continent? Have you experienced any challenges in acquiring a visa to another African country? This… Read More ›

• Open Call for Submissions: Africa in Dialogue

  By Africa in Words on 23 March , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Africa in Dialogue publishes unsolicited individual and book interviews.  Submissions are open year-round. The team is drawn to creative, original and unpublished interviews no longer than 5000 words. They accept interviews between African interviewers and storytellers. The given definition of an African… Read More ›

• Call for submissions: Sol Plaatje EU Poetry Award & Anthology (Deadline 31 March)

  By Africa in Words on 20 March , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The Jacana Literary Foundation (JLF) is pleased to announce that submissions for the ninth annual Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award and Anthology is now open until 31 March 2019. Up to three poems in any of South Africa’s official… Read More ›

• Experimental YA novel representative and complex: Review of ‘When We Speak of Nothing’

  By Chelsea Haith on 18 March , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  With When We Speak of Nothing Olumide Popoola has created a contemporary young adult novel that addresses the strains of growing up in an economy ravaged by neoliberal economic policies and a community suffering from prejudicial social policies. Popoola’s experimental… Read More ›

• Call for Applications: Ife IAS Summer School, Nigeria (Deadline 30 May)

  By Africa in Words on 16 March , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  IFE INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES Theme: KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY: SCHOLARSHIP, TEACHING AND SERVICE July 21 – August 3, 2019  Ife Institute of Advanced Studies offers an international platform for nurturing a new generation of scholars. The summer institute is currently its… Read More ›

• Event: Literature and Activism in the Equatorial Guinean Diaspora (Boston, 28 March)

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

  

  Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel At Boston University 28 March Equatoguinean writer Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel embarked on an unexpected hunger strike in February 2011 to protest the repression of civil liberties in Equatorial Guinea. Now exiled in Barcelona, Spain, Ávila… Read More ›

• Call for submissions: Bakwa Magazine 09 (Deadline: 15 March)

  By Africa in Words on 9 March , 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  We are delighted to share that Bakwa Magazine is currently open for submissions. The Magazine seeks stories about your travelling experiences. “Citizenship is the most powerful currency today, often superseding race.” Vik Sohonie, Africa is a Country When you walk… Read More ›

• ‘Graduating to genre’: Marlon James in person and on the page

  By Chelsea Haith on 7 March , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  “What does it mean when you don’t think you have a mythology?” Marlon James is increasingly preoccupied by legacy. “I return to Greek tragedy before every book I write. I look for answers and Greek tragedy provides them. Or, better… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: MLA 2020, African Literature to 1990 (deadline Mar. 15)

  By Africa in Words Guest on 6 March , 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  The Modern Language Association Forum for African Literature to 1990 is seeking papers for the following panels proposed for MLA 2020 (9-12 January) in Seattle, Washington: African Literature and the Cold War How does the global Cold War transform readings… Read More ›

• Review: New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tano Part 2, Heartache)

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

  

  AiW Guest: Rashi Rohatgi AiW note: This is the third in a series of poetry reviews on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box Set from AiW Guest Rashi Rohatgi. You can find the previous posts here and here; look for… Read More ›

• Event: ‘Speaking Through Walls’, Sethembile Msezane at Tyburn Gallery, London (Until 23 April)

  By Africa in Words on 2 March , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Sethembile Msezane ‘Speaking Through Walls’ at Tyburn Gallery, London Ends 13 April 2019 We are delighted to share that Tyburn Gallery is presenting Speaking Through Walls, Sethembile Msezane’s first UK solo exhibition. Using interdisciplinary practice encompassing performance, photography, film, sculpture and… Read More ›

• Isaac Fadoyebo: soldier and storyteller between Nigeria and Burma

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

  

  AiW Guest: Oliver Coates Isaac Fadoyebo’s memoir A Stroke of Unbelievable Luck offers a unique record of one African soldier’s war service in India and Burma. Forced to hide behind enemy lines in the Burmese rainforest for nine months, Fadoyebo’s… Read More ›

• Call for papers: Asixoxe, Conference on African Philosophy (Deadline: 23 April)

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

  

  Asixoxe (Let’s Talk) Conference on African Philosophy 2019 is to be held in London and Prague, in May and June respectively.  This conference is jointly organized by the Centre for Global Studies of the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of… Read More ›

• Event: El Anatsui ‘Material Wonder’ Art Exhibition (28 February-6 April)

  By Africa in Words on 23 February , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  El Anatsui’s ‘Material Wonder’ At October Gallery, London Opens on Thursday, 28 February  October Gallery, now in its 40th year, presents an exhibition of works celebrating the force and creative vision of El Anatsui, an artist who has had a tremendous impact… Read More ›

• Event: African Gaze – film posters from Ghana exhibition (SOAS London: Ends 23 March)

  By Africa in Words on 20 February , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  African Gaze: Hollywood; Bollywood and Nollywood film posters from Ghana From the Collection of Karun Thakar & the late Mark Shivas At SOAS, Brunei Gallery, London Showing until 23 March 2019 The late 1980s in Ghana saw the emergence of… Read More ›

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