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• 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 • ( 2 )

  

  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 • ( 1 )

  

  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 • ( 2 )

  

  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 ›

• Call for Submissions: Geko Mofolo Prize (Deadline: 31 July)

  By Africa in Words on 20 April , 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  We are delighted to share the news that submissions have opened for the Geko Mofolo Prize for Outstanding Fiction in Sesotho. The Prize is awarded in July in South Africa and its submissions are open to all Basotho in the continent… Read More ›

• Q&A: “Poetry as a vehicle for telling stories and interrogating memory.”Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike interviews Kólá Túbòsún

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

  

  AiW Guest: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike Kọlá Túbọsún is a Nigerian linguist and writer based in Lagos, Nigeria. He is a joint winner of the Saraba Magazine Manuscript Contest in 2017 and the winner of the 2018 Miles Morland Scholarship. He… Read More ›

• African Writers and Researchers at the Geneva Book Fair (01-05 May)

  By Africa in Words on 17 April , 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Le salon africain at the Geneva Book Fair 2019 presents: African Researchers The theme is inspired by the books of many novelists and essayists who reflect on the wounds of the continent, but also on its grandeur and its aspirations. With: Abd Al… Read More ›

• Call for applications: Reviews Editor for Africa in Words. NEW Closing date 6 May 2019

  By Africa in Words on 16 April , 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  Africa in Words is recruiting volunteers to join our small, friendly and entirely voluntary team. We are recruiting for our Reviews section. Africa in Words has an average of 6500 readers each month from over 100 countries. The blog’s Reviews… Read More ›

• Review: Terry Kurgan’s “Everyone is Present”

  By Africa in Words Guest on 15 April , 2019 • ( 3 )

  

  AiW Guest: Andrew van der Vlies Terry Kurgan is one of South Africa’s most accomplished and sophisticated theorists of her own photographic practice. Her projects, both studio-based and publicly engaged, have frequently explored the mediations of power relations at play… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Poetry Anthology in Honour of Pius Adesanmi (Deadline: 21 April)

  By Africa in Words on 13 April , 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  We are delighted to share with you that Daraja Press (Canada) and Narrative Landscape Press (Nigeria) will be publishing the North American and Nigerian editions of the proposed poetry anthology Wreaths for a Wayfarer in Honour of Pius Adesanmi (1972-2019)…. Read More ›

• Call for Submissons: Agbowó Magazine (Deadline: 31 April)

  By Africa in Words on 10 April , 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  We are delighted to share that Agbowó literary and art magazine is now accepting submissions. The team is calling for visual art pieces, photographs, short stories, essays and poetry that explore to the theme “Limits”. The aim is to collect… Read More ›

• 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 ›

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