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• Call for Papers: ‘Intercultural Encounters’, A Book in Honour of Ojaja II (Deadline: 30 April)

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

  

  Intercultural Encounters, Historicity and Cultural Communication for Development In honour of Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Arole Oodua, Ojaja II While diverse accounts of the origin of the Yoruba have been appropriated by historians and scholars in cultural studies such as… Read More ›

• Review: New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tano Part 1, Diaspora)

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

  

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

• Call for Papers: Special Issue of Genealogy Journal: ‘Global Black Movements’ (Deadline: 31 March)

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

  

  The function and impact of global black movements have been scrutinized over generations by scholars and activists. Black movements of all forms and intent have risen up to challenge slavery, colonialism, global capitalism and the concurrent system of racial oppression…. Read More ›

• Call for Papers: African Places, African Spaces, University of Leeds (Deadline: 31 January)

  By Africa in Words on 30 January , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Last day to submit your ideas for: ‘African Places, African Spaces’ Finding Africa Seminar Series, 2019 University of Leeds In light of contemporary concerns with decolonisation and meditations on the meaning of the continent of Africa, both within the academy… Read More ›

• Call for Applications: Write your World, Creative Writing Course with Billy Kahora (Deadline: 5 February 2019)

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

  

  Free Fiction & Creative Writing Course:  Write your World Bristolian, African & Caribbean Literature Fully funded by the University of Bristol, this 8-week course requires you to have no previous qualifications. Write your World with Billy Kahora The short story… Read More ›

• Call for Abstracts: Conference on African Studies, Kenya (Deadline: 15 March 2019)

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

  

    Conference on African Studies Theme: Recovering, digitizing and practicalizing Africa’s Indigenous Knowledge Kisii University, Kenya July 15 – 20, 2019 Following broadly defined and multi-purpose transdisciplinary approaches to areal studies, the African Studies Research Center, Kisii is holding its… Read More ›

• Call for Contributions: ‘The revolutionary left in Sub-Saharan Africa’, ROAPE (Deadline: 01 March)

  By Africa in Words on 19 January , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) is organising a symposium on the following theme: The revolutionary left in Sub-Saharan Africa (1960’s-1970’s): a political and social history to be written Background The reason for this symposium stems from the following… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Jalada No.06: After + Life (Deadline: 05 June)

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

  

  We are delighted to share this call for submissions for Jalada’s 6th anthology ‘After+Life’. The afterlife has been a mysterious curiosity for as long as humans can remember. Myths, stories, or even entire religions have been born out of our… Read More ›

• Call for panel papers: ‘Literary Activism in Twenty-First Century Africa’, ECAS 2019 (Deadline: 21 Jan)

  By Africa in Words on 12 January , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The 8th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 2019) invites the submission of panel proposals addressing the conference theme of Africa: Connections and Disruptions. Edinburgh, June 11-14, 2019 This specific call for panel proposals seeks papers addressing ‘Literary Activism in Twenty-First… Read More ›

• Literary Networks and Collaborations: A Nod towards Knowledge Decolonisation

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

  

  AiW Guest: Doseline Kiguru. AiW note: This is part of a series of posts for Africa in Words exploring the networked series of research, events, and discussions, ‘Small Magazines, Literary Networks and Self-Fashioning in Africa and its Diasporas’. Here our… Read More ›

• Event: Sheng – Rise of a Kenyan Swahili Vernacular (21 January, SOAS, London)

  By Africa in Words on 9 January , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Book Launch: Sheng – Rise of a Kenyan Swahili Vernacular Chege Githiora On 21 January 2019 1700-1900 GMT At SOAS, London Description The city of Nairobi is a rich context for the study of sociolinguistic phenomena. The coexistence of speakers of… Read More ›

• Call for papers: SCOLMA Annual Conference (Deadline: 04 February)

  By Africa in Words on 5 January , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

    SCOLMA Annual Conference  Decolonising African Studies: questions and dilemmas for libraries, archives and collections Monday 10 June 2019  University of Edinburgh There has been an increasing call for the decolonisation of the curriculum across the disciplines in Northern institutions… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: African Literature Association Conference (New Deadline: 31 January 2019)

  By Africa in Words on 2 January , 2019 • ( 1 )

  

   We are delighted to share that the deadline for the submission of panel and paper proposals for the 2019 (May 15-18) ALA conference has been extended to Thursday 31 January.   ALA conference Columbus May 15-18, 2019 Theme: Institutions of African… Read More ›

• Read Up and Wind Down: Season’s Reading from Africa in Words

  By Chelsea Haith on 31 December , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  As 2018 winds down, Africa in Words is taking a small break over the holiday period to gear up for a new year full of exciting plans. As a new Associate Reviews Editor myself, I can vouch for the efforts… Read More ›

• Call for submissions: Not afraid of the ruins #2: Local science fictions (Deadline: 15 January, 2019)

  By Africa in Words on 29 December , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Call for submissions for futuristic imaginaries Not afraid of the ruins #2: Local science fictions Utopian dreamers, other-worldly explorers, and psychonautic adventurers; scholars, activists, students, and critics: drawing inspiration from the online political ecology magazine Uneven Earth and following the… Read More ›

• Short List Announced: Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize 2018

  By Africa in Words on 26 December , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  THE MABATI-CORNELL KISWAHILI PRIZE FOR AFRICAN LITERATURE Short List Announcement The short list for Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature was announced today December 17, 2018 by the board chair, Abdilatif Abdalla. The prize, founded in 2014 by Dr…. Read More ›

• ‘Strange and unsettling’: Review of ‘Lagos Noir’

  By Chelsea Haith on 24 December , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Chris Abani‘s introduction to this strange and unsettling collection of noir shorts reveals the essence of the collection’s geographical inspiration: “the unsettled darkness that continues to lurk in the city’s streets, alleys, and waterways.” Lagos is the first African city… Read More ›

• Call for papers: ‘(Re)membering Africa: Women’s Narratives’, University of Houston (Deadline: 04 January 2019)

  By Africa in Words on 22 December , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  (Re)membering Africa: Women’s Narratives on the Continent and Beyond Workshop: March 28 – 30, 2019 University of Houston In his book, Re-membering Africa, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o states that  “the history of Africa has not simply been one of deprivation, dispossession… Read More ›

• “An excoriating critique”: Review of Leye Adenle’s ‘When Trouble Sleeps’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 20 December , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Sam Naidu.  Leye Adenle’s noir thriller, When Trouble Sleeps, is an excoriating critique of contemporary Nigerian society. From the prologue, with its melodramatic plane crash to the surprisingly satisfying conclusion, this novel is relentless in its examination of… Read More ›

• Call for papers: Black Panther Conference, Ohio (New Deadline: 01 February 2019)

  By Africa in Words on 19 December , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Black Panther Conference ‘Taking Stock of the First African Super Hero at 50’ Shawnee State University, Ohio, USA April 2019 The Department of English and Humanities at Shawnee State University and the Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de… Read More ›

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