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• Event: Film Africa at South London Gallery (02-11 November)

  By Africa in Words on 7 November , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  This November Film Africa have curated a selection of screenings at the South London Gallery to coincide with this year’s Film Africa Festival and the SLG’s South by South programme. Film Africa 2018 takes the declaration from Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu as… Read More ›

• “An act of inspiration”: Review of La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono

  By Africa in Words Guest on 5 November , 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Karina M. Szczurek  Trifonia Melibea Obono’s La Bastarda was first published two years ago in its original Spanish by Feminist Press and has now become the first novel by an Equatorial Guinean woman writer to be translated into… Read More ›

• Q&A: Serah Kasembeli on Reading Student Protests from YouTube

  By Africa in Words Guest on 3 November , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Tadiwa Madenga A few years ago, I started to feel like I was learning everything I knew from YouTube. It was exciting to find a free archive with endless live recordings from concerts, artists’ interviews, hair tutorials, and… Read More ›

• Event: The African Writers Conference, Abuja, Nigeria (01 December)

  By Africa in Words on 3 November , 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  We are delighted to announce that the African Writers Conference this year will take place in the International Conference Centre, in Abuja, Nigeria, on 01 December. The theme of the 2018 African Writers Conference is: Re-imagining African Literature: New Voices, New… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets (Deadline: 01 December 2018)

  By Africa in Words on 31 October , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  We are delighted to share that The Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry is now open for submissions, and remains open until 01 December. The Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry is awarded annually to an African poet who has not yet… Read More ›

• Genre, Politics, and Southern Superheroes: Review of Bill Masuku’s Captain South Africa

  By Africa in Words Guest on 29 October , 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Dominic Davies.  A little over two years ago I travelled to Cape Town to attend FanCon 2016, an event that was then South Africa’s most attended comics convention to date. As a researcher interested in graphic narratives from… Read More ›

• Q&A: Tinashe Mushakavanhu on Reading Zimbabwe from Kampala

  By Africa in Words Guest on 28 October , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Tadiwa Madenga Before I travelled to Kampala, I found myself shockingly motivated to finish writing an academic paper. I had just moved from Boston to Brooklyn for the summer, and in that transition, a once tedious essay felt… Read More ›

• The Brittle Paper Awards 2018 Shortlists

  By Africa in Words on 25 October , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The shortlists for the 2018 Brittle Paper Awards have been announced! The award was established in 2017 to recognize the finest, original pieces of writing by Africans published online. The 31 shortlisted pieces reflect the state of contemporary African literary culture. The… Read More ›

• Call for Applications: Chevening Fellowship opportunity for African Scholars, British Library (Deadline: 06 November)

  By Africa in Words on 24 October , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The British Library is currently advertising for a Chevening Fellow for the following project: Research on the British Library’s African-language printed books collections The successful candidate will research at least one of the following collections: Hausa, Swahili, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu,… Read More ›

• Q&A: Silas Miami, Co-screenwriter on Kenyan Oscar hopeful ‘Supa Modo’

  By Chelsea Haith on 23 October , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Supa Modo, Kenya’s submission to the 2019 Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Film category, tells a tale of terminal illness, community, and the power of pretending. When there is nothing more the doctors can do for her, Jo (Stycie… Read More ›

• Event: Ake Arts & Book Festival (25-28 October, Lagos)

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

  

  Ake Arts & Book Festival is fast approaching! The sixth edition of the festival will take place for the first time in Lagos on October 25 – 28, 2018. The theme for this year is Fantastical Futures and events and conversations will… Read More ›

• Conserving culture and pushing boundaries in Somaliland: Hargeysa International Book Fair 2018

  By Africa in Words Guest on 18 October , 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest: Caitlin Pearson, Africa Writes Go through the gates of the Xaranta Dhaqanka, the Hargeysa Cultural Centre in Somaliland’s capital, and you’ll encounter a courtyard of small buildings. To your right is the Cultural Centre’s library, housing a wide-ranging… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Omenana Magazine: Urban Legend: Special Issue (Deadline: 30 Oct)

  By Africa in Words on 17 October , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Omenana Magazine is currently open for fiction, and non-fiction submissions from writers living in Africa or African writers living anywhere in the world for its special edition, The Urban Legend Issue. Omenana is looking out for imaginative speculative fiction (Fantasy, Science Fiction,… Read More ›

• “Reading is a collective pursuit”: Open Book Festival Review

  By Africa in Words Guest on 16 October , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Megan Ross. Before I write this review I’ll… Share my Open Book diet Too. Much. Caffeine. All the dry red at the Fugard bar. Half a bottle of single malt whiskey (and its accompanying hangover) that Helene Prinsloo… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: ALA Book Awards (New Deadlines: 01 November)

  By Africa in Words on 13 October , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The African Literature Association (ALA)  has extended deadlines for its book prizes this year! Book of the Year Award—Scholarship (New Deadline:  November 1, 2018) For an outstanding book in African literary studies published in the preceding calendar year (2017). Authors… Read More ›

• Event: Small Country, Gaël Faye in conversation (27 October, New York)

  By Africa in Words on 10 October , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Small Country by Albertine Books in French and English You are warmly invited to this event on 27th October with French-Rwandan author and rapper Gaël Faye discussing his award-winning novel, Small Country, just translated in English and out in U.S with… Read More ›

• African Superheroes in the 1970s and 1980s: A Postscript

  By Africa in Words Guest on 8 October , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW note: This is a followup to the second post in our series on African superheroes, guest edited by Tessa Pijnaker, PhD student in African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. Look out for more in this AiW… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: Special Issue: Transition Magazine, ‘Black Women/Superheroes’ (Deadline: 30 November)

  By Africa in Words on 6 October , 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  ‘Black Women/Superheroes’ Special Issue: Transition Magazine According to Kimberlé Crenshaw intersectionality theory draws attention to Black women’s experiences of intertwined structures of power and oppression, including racism, misogyny, classism, heterosexism, discrimination based on immigration status, ableism, transmisogyny.  That said, Black… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: ‘Racialisation and Publicness in Africa and the African Diaspora’, Oxford University (Deadline for Paper Proposals: 30 November)

  By Africa in Words on 3 October , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  We are pleased to share the Call for Papers and Panels for a two-day Conference on ‘Racialisation and Publicness in Africa and the African Diaspora’ which will be held at the University of Oxford, from 27-28 June, 2019. From the… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: African Identities: Journal of Economics, Culture and Society, Special Issue (Deadline for Abstracts: 1 November 2018)

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

  

  The Journal of Economics, Culture and Society invites you to submit abstracts on: Marxism and African Literatures: New Interventions. This special issue of African Identities: Journal of Economics, Culture and Society will survey recent developments at the intersection of Marxist… Read More ›

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