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• “Heroes and scholars are everywhere”: Q&A with Abu Amirah, founder of Hekaya

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

  

  AiW Guest Aurélie Journo Author’s note: I met Abu Amirah when I attended the first Swahili Litfest he organised in March 2019 in Mombasa. After an exciting day of performances by high school students from selected schools Mombasa county in… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: ‘No Victor! No Vanquished!’ Biafra War and its Literatures (Deadline: 28 February)

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

  

  We are delighted to share this call for papers for a book project based on the course of the Biafra war and its literatures. On the 12th of January 1970, the ceasefire had been certified after the thirty-month Nigerian Civil… Read More ›

• Save the Date: ECAS 2021, ‘African Futures’ (02-05 June, 2021)

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

  

  9th European Conference on African Studies ‘African Futures’ University of Cologne, Germany 2-5 June, 2021 ‘African Futures’ aims to explore the continent’s critical engagements with the past, present, and future of Africa’s global entanglements. The continent has been characterized as… Read More ›

• A Dizzying Tale of Duality: A Review of Nawal El Saadawi’s The Fall of the Imam.

  By Ellen Addis on 3 February , 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  A girl is chased through the night with her dog, looking for her mother in the dark, until something strikes her from behind. The girl—whose name is Bint Allah, meaning ‘Daughter of God’— falls, and asks the persecutors following her:… Read More ›

• Call for Applications: African Writers Trust Publishing Fellowship Programme (Deadline: 16 February)

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

  

  2nd Edition: African Writers Trust Publishing Fellowship Programme 08 – 14 March 2020  Uganda The African Writers Trust Publishing Fellowship programme is open to early career publishers and creative writers intending to self-publish their manuscripts. Applicants will be selected from… Read More ›

• Call for Applications: Africa Is A Country Fellowship

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

  

  We are delighted to share the announcement of the inaugural Africa Is A Country Fellowship Program. The purpose of the Africa Is A Country (AIAC) Fellowship is to support the production of original work and new knowledge on Africa-related topics… Read More ›

• 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 • ( 0 )

  

  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 • ( 3 )

  

  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 ›

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