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• The African classroom: Reviewing Le Monde Afrique’s series « La classe africaine »

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

  

  AiW Guest: Connor Pruss. From January to February 2018, Le Monde Afrique, the online African edition to the French newspaper Le Monde, released a series of articles chronicling education in various contexts across the continent called, “The African Classroom” (« La… Read More ›

• Event: 4th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference (13 October, IAS, Carleton University)

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

  

  You are invited to the 4th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at Carleton University Saturday October 13, 2018 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m The Institute of African Studies (IAS) at Carleton University is hosting its 4th Annual IAS Undergraduate Research Conference, organized by… Read More ›

• Save the date: Africa in Motion Film Festival (26 October – 4 November 2018, Scotland)

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

  

  Save the date!! Be in Edinburgh-Glasgow for Africa in Motion Film Festival 2018 26 October – 4 November About AiM Africa in Motion (AiM) is an annual African film festival taking place in Scotland, consisting of film screenings and complementary… Read More ›

• Event: Nordic Africa Days 2018 (19-21 September, Uppsala, Sweden)

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

  

    The Nordic Africa Days (NAD) biannual international conference 19-21 September 2018 Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden The conference starts today at 4pm. The programme and more information can be found here   A few highlights include: Thursday 20th 9am… Read More ›

• Event: Kistrech International Poetry Festival (03-10 October, Kenya)

  By Africa in Words on 15 September , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The Kistrech International Poetry Festival 2018 is set to happen again this year, from October 3-10, and this time it is going to be held in various towns in Kenya. The Kistrech International Poetry Festival was founded by Dr Christopher… Read More ›

• Call for Applications: The Dakar Thought Workshops Doctoral School (Deadline: 30th September)

  By Africa in Words on 12 September , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

    THE DAKAR THOUGHT WORKSHOPS DOCTORAL SCHOOL “New knowledge and global issues: epistemology, pedagogy and method” January 21-26, 2019 Applications due September 30, 2018 Responding to new environments in Africa and the demand for new knowledge, the Thought Workshops of… Read More ›

• Events: SCOLMA & ASAUK (Birmingham: 10th & 11th-13th September)

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

  

  This week is an exciting week in Birmingham, UK, for those interested in African Studies scholarship! SCOLMA Annual Conference Things come together?:  Literary archives from, in and for Africa Monday, 10 September 2018 University of Birmingham The day’s programme and… Read More ›

• Event: South African Book Fair 2018 (7th–9th September, Johannesburg)

  By Africa in Words on 5 September , 2018 • ( 0 )

  Join, share and celebrate #OURSTORIES at the South African Book Fair 2018 Newtown Precinct, Johannesburg 7–9 September Meet experts from the book publishing industry ready to assist with learning, teaching support materials, of the best research from university presses, plus… Read More ›

• ‘The archive of my life’: The UK pre-launch of Akwaeke Emezi’s autobiographical novel ‘Freshwater’ at Africa Writes 2018

  By Africa in Words Guest on 3 September , 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Sana Goyal. It’s the Saturday afternoon of the Africa Writes weekend in London — the 2018 edition. Sitting in the second row of the Auditorium at the British Library, I hear several excitable voices over my shoulder. And… Read More ›

• Event: Open Book Festival, Cape Town (5th-9th September)

  By Africa in Words on 1 September , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Join the Book Lounge & the Fugard Theatre Open Book Festival   Cape Town, South Africa 5 – 9 September 2018 Open Book Festival at The Fugard Theatre is an annual literary festival in Cape Town, South Africa, the first of which… Read More ›

• Event: Remembering Landeg White (8th October: SOAS, London)

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

  

  The Centre of African Studies, SOAS, invites you to a remembrance to celebrate the life of Landeg White: Poet, Teacher, Scholar, Translator and Novelist At SOAS, in London,  8th October 2018  from 17.15 to 19.00 Landeg White was born in… Read More ›

• Event: 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair (4-7th October: Somerset House, London)

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

  

  Save the Date! 04-07 October 2018: London 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returns for its sixth edition at Somerset House with an expanded programme of exhibitions, special projects and talks. Founded in 2013, 1-54 is the leading international art fair dedicated to… Read More ›

• Event: ‘Intersection’, Group Exhibition (Tyburn Gallery, London)

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

  

  Tyburn Gallery is pleased to present INTERSECTION, a group exhibition including works by southern African artists Gabriel Choto (born in Harare, Zimbabwe), Gabrielle Kruger (born in Cape Town) and Neo Matloga (born in Limpopo province, South Africa). This summer, the group show… Read More ›

• Defragmenting the African Creative Industry. African Superheroes Series.

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

  

  AiW Guest Abena Addai Boakye The fourth post in the African Superheroes series is written by Abena Addai Boakye, Communications Manager and project lead for Afrocomix at Leti Arts. She handles the daily communicative aspects of Leti and runs point on… Read More ›

• A People-centred Approach to Literary Activism in 21st Century Africa: Nii Ayikwei Parkes on Arts Management and Literary Activism at Writivism 2017

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

  

  AiW Guest Madhu Krishnan. AiW note: This week in the run up to the 2018 Writivism festival, the Arts Managers and Literary Activists Network (AMLA) hosted their third annual workshop bringing together early career academics and Africa-centered literary producers.  It… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Nalubaale Review (Deadline: 30th September)

  By Africa in Words on 18 August , 2018 • ( 1 )

  The Nalubaale Review is a literary magazine based in Uganda. It aims to publish the finest emerging writers in Uganda and all other African countries. The magazine is looking for new short stories, poems, dialogues, articles and papers based on… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: Sixth Annual Seminar on African Language Literature, ACLA (Deadline: 20th September)

  By Africa in Words on 15 August , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  At the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, on 5th-7th March, 2019, the organiser Wendy Belcher will be hosting a seminar on African language literature. Sixth Annual Seminar on African Language Literature While African… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: Festschrift in honour of Prof Chinyere G. Okafor (Deadline: 31st October)

  By Africa in Words on 11 August , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Chinyere G. Okafor has been a significant force and voice in Interdisciplinary Studies through the intersection of the following: African Literature and Theatre, Women, Gender & Feminism, Anthopology and Traditional Drama. Her scholarship engages African, European, North American and the… Read More ›

• AiW at the 2018 Edinburgh International Books Festival – Freedom.

  By Katie Reid on 10 August , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW are gearing up for Edinburgh International Books Festival – beginning tomorrow Aug 11 – and this year’s series of books events on the theme of freedom, through which the Festival “calls upon its authors, participants and audiences to consider… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: African Literature Today @50 (Deadline: 30th September)

  By Africa in Words on 8 August , 2018 • ( 4 )

  

  ALT 37/ African Griot/ ALT at 50 invites you to submit papers by 30th September. African Literature Today, much like modern African Literature and its criticism as a formal intellectual discipline, has been in the Academy for half a century. Chinua Achebe… Read More ›

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