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• Westdene Graffiti Project

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

  

  AiW Guest: Ofentse Mashego In July 2015, the Johannesburg suburb of Westdene launched its own community mural project. The first of its kind in South Africa, and possibly globally, the Westdene Graffiti Project uses the art of graffiti to personalise… Read More ›

• Event: CinemAfrica (02-06 October, Sweden)

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

  

  CinemAfrica is a festival in Scandinavia that showcases African film. It was started in 1998 and today it has become the largest festival in Scandinavia for films from the African continent and diaspora. This year, CinemAfrica will take place between… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: Lagos Studies Association Conference, 2020 (Deadline: 30 November)

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

  

  The 5th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference Theme: Postcolonial African Cities at 60: Continuities and Discontinuities June 25-27, 2020 Lagos, Nigeria The postcolonial African city defies easy definition, even as African countries enter their 6th decade of independence in 2020. The 5th edition… Read More ›

• In the Dark: Review of Jumoke Verissimo’s ‘A Small Silence’

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

  

  AiW Guest: Temitayo Olofinlua Prof, a pro-democracy activist, has just returned from prison after years of incarceration. And now he chooses to sit in darkness. Whenever he goes out, he is shrouded from head to toe in a dark cloak…. Read More ›

• Event: ‘Here Is Elsewhere’, Thabiso Sekgala (Hayward Gallery, London)

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

  

    Exhibition: Here Is Elsewhere Thabiso Sekgala Hayward Galley, London 28 August – 6 October 2019 Here Is Elsewhere is an exhibition of the work of late South African photographer Thabiso Sekgala. Sekgala’s first solo exhibition in the UK brings together… Read More ›

• Call for submissions: K & L Prize for African Literature 2020

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

  

  The team at K & L Prize for African Literature 2020 are calling for short story entries from young African writers on the theme ‘Africanfuturism’. Africanfuturism, a term coined by Nigerian-American author Nnedi Okorafor, is a genre that often depicts… Read More ›

• Q&A: ‘The goal is to be free, not white’: an interview with Seun Kuti

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

  

  AiW Guest Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti (born 11 January 1983), commonly known as Seun Kuti, is a Nigerian musician and the youngest son of legendary late afrobeat pioneer, Fela Kuti. Seun and his brother, Femi, are the two commercially… Read More ›

• Event: Translating Possibilities (SOAS, 12 September)

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

  

  Translating Possibilities SOAS, London 12 September 2019 A public night of readings, performances, films and dance celebrating translated poetry moving beyond the page. About this Event Translating Possibilities will bring together a mix of different languages, translation practices and poetic… Read More ›

• Call for Applications: AEGIS Summer School (Deadline: 30 September)

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

  

  African Futures: Promises, Projections and Reflections on a Continent in Transition AEGIS Summer School 9-13 June 2020 Cagliari, Italy The 2020 Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS) Summer School will address the theme of African Futures: Promises, Projections and Reflections… Read More ›

• A Tragic Story of War: Discussing Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love at the BBC Bookclub

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

  

  AiW Guest Zahra Banday Zahra Banday attended a recent recording of BBC Radio 4’s Bookclub discussing Aminatta Forna’s novel The Memory of Love (2011). The BBC Bookclub programme aired on 1st September 2019; you can listen again here, or catch… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: ‘Decolonial discourse in/and South African literary systems’, Journal of Decolonising Disciplines (Deadline: 6th September)

  By Africa in Words on 31 August , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  We are delighted to share this call for papers from The Journal of Decolonising Discipline on the theme Literary (Un/Re)Settling: Decolonial discourse in/and South African literary systems. The Journal of Decolonising Disciplines (JDD) invites contributions to a special issue on the… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: BARAZA – Swahili Studies Conference (Deadline: 15 September)

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

  

  BARAZA Swahili Conference at SOAS, London 12 October 2019 Abstracts are invited for short presentations at the fifth annual one-day conference addressing any aspect of the language, literature, translation, culture, philosophy or diaspora of the Swahili speaking peoples of the world. The… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: The Best of Africa (Open Call)

  By Africa in Words on 24 August , 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  The Best of Africa is an online portal for African ideas and voices. Through creative submissions from their global network, they provide readers useful, intelligent and thoroughly researched commentary and analysis on Africa in order to showcase that the beauty… Read More ›

• Call for applications: Bakwa’s literary translation workshop (21-26 October)

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

  

  Bakwa Magazine, in collaboration with the University of Bristol, is pleased to announce that applications are open for an exciting literary translation workshop aimed at building networks and sustainability for literary translators in Cameroon. The workshop, scheduled for 21-26 October… Read More ›

• Call for submissions: Praxis Magazine Online (Open call)

  By Africa in Words on 17 August , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Praxis Magazine Online is currently inviting submissions in four genres: POETRY, FICTION, NON-FICTION, and JOURNAL STORIES. Specific guidelines for each area appear below, along with the email address for submissions in each genre. Praxis Magazine encourages new and existing contributors to… Read More ›

• Event: Afems Conference 2019, Wits, South Africa (5-7 September)

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

  

  African Feminisms (Afems) 2019 Theorising from the Epicentres of our Agency Wits University 5-7 September 2019​ The third edition of the African Feminisms (Afems) conference will happen from the 5-7 September 2019 at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, in… Read More ›

• Of Odyssean Saga and Romantic Tragedy – a review of Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities

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

  

  AiW Guest Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè ‘You paid me evil for all I did for you…’ –An Orchestra of Minorities.  ‘If the luminous intensity of Good did not give the night of Evil its blackness, Evil would lose its appeal.’ –Literature and… Read More ›

• Call for submissions: The Igby Prize For Nonfiction, The Kalahari Review (Deadline: 20 August)

  By Africa in Words on 10 August , 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  You are invited to submit your non-fiction work to The Kalahari Review by 20th August. The theme for this month’s memoir/essay contest at The Kalahari Review is ‘Where we live and why’. Each month The Kalahari Review follows a theme; last… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Sawti Poetry Prize (Deadline: 10 August)

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

  

  Sawti Poetry Prize | Tuzo Ya Ushairi Ya Sawti 3 Categories  3 Winners   £500 Prize Each The Sawti Poetry Prize is open! The project organisers welcome submissions in the following languages; English, Arabic, and Kiswahili. This prize is a contribution… Read More ›

• Call for submissions: Utopian Acts (Open call)

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

  

  Utopian Acts is collecting decolonial utopian resources! During the 2019 Utopian Studies Society conference in Prato this month a number of delegates discussed the lack of attention being paid to indigenous, black and decolonial studies scholarship within the field. Utopian… Read More ›

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