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• Books in Your Ears: On Literary Podcasts

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 June , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

    This Guest post marks the launch of Africa in Words reviewing literary podcasts. This Sunday 1 July, Africa in Words is hosting a conversation at Africa Writes on one of the most exciting trends in African literature over the… Read More ›

• Flexible Forms and Publics: Moradewun Adejunmobi and Stacy Hardy on Small Magazines

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 June , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest Penny Cartwright A place for ‘extended curiosity, new adventures, critical thinking, daydreaming, socio-political involvement, partying and random perusal’: so Stacy Hardy, of South Africa’s Chimurenga, imagines the small magazine.  Speaking as part of a closing keynote conversation hosted… Read More ›

• Africa in Words at Africa Writes 2018

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

  

    In among the generosity and wealth of Africa Writes’ offerings this year – new and fresh events, workshops, panels and conversations – see our Event Preview here and the Africa Writes programme with further details on their website, with advance… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Africa in Dialogue: Second Issue (Deadline: 31st July)

  By Africa in Words on 23 June , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Africa in Dialogue is currently accepting submissions for its second issue. Seasoned and upcoming African interviewers, writers and critics are invited to submit original, unpublished dialogues with African Storytellers. Africa in Dialogue are interested in high quality, long-form, vibrant dialogues between… Read More ›

• Africa Writes: Event Preview (29th June – 1st July, London)

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

  

  You are invited to join The Royal African Society’s annual literature festival, Africa Writes From Friday 29 June to Sunday 1 July 2018 at The British Library & Rich Mix Over 60 of the most influential voices in contemporary writing… Read More ›

• Event: The 2nd Cultural Compounds Presentation (7th July, London)

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

  

  The 2nd Cultural Compounds presentation: IS AFRICAN IDENTITY LOST IN TRANSLATION? Saturday 7th July 2018 9am-8pm University of London Cultural Compounds is a series of one day symposiums exploring how the cultural and the personal conditions of African diasporic society relate to… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Dinaane Debut Fiction Award (Deadline: 30th June)

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

  

  Non-fiction takes the lion’s share of sales of books made in South Africa, with fiction limited to a very small percentage of all sales of locally published books. Many locally published novels sell just a few hundred copies, making it… Read More ›

• African superheroes in the 1970s and 1980s: a historical perspective

  By Africa in Words Guest on 11 June , 2018 • ( 7 )

  

  AiW Guest Tessa Pijnaker This is the second of a series of posts on African superheroes, guest edited by Tessa Pijnaker, PhD student in African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. In this post, Tessa builds from her… Read More ›

• Event: Caine Prize Shortlist Conversation (28th June, London)

  By Africa in Words on 9 June , 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  The Library at Willesden Green invites you to a conversation with the Caine Prize for African Writing 2018 shortlist On Thursday 28th June 2018 From 6.30pm The Caine Prize for African Writing is a literature prize awarded to an African… Read More ›

• CFP: Special Issue: New Approaches to Literary Activism in 21st Century Africa, Deadline 10 July 2018

  By Africa in Words on 8 June , 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  New Approaches to Literary Activism in 21st Century Africa Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies Guest Editors: Ruth Bush, Madhu Krishnan, Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire & Kate Wallis Deadline: 10 July 2018 (abstracts submitted by 10 June 2018 will also be… Read More ›

• Call for Applications: Research Fellow, University of Warwick (Deadline: 11th June)

  By Africa in Words on 6 June , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The University of Warwick – English and Comparative Literary Studies – invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on a Leverhulme-funded research project: “World Literature and Commodity Frontiers: The Ecology of the ‘long’ 20th Century.”  This Postdoctoral Research Fellow position… Read More ›

• Archiving Small Magazines: AWA Digitisation and Exhibition in Montpelier

  By Africa in Words Guest on 4 June , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest Aurélie Journo AiW note: This Guest post is part of a series of articles publishing on Africa in Words that come out of conversations between a new interdisciplinary network of researchers and literary producers examining the circulation and production… Read More ›

• Call for Applications: Annual AMLA Fellowship (Deadline: 5th June)

  By Africa in Words on 2 June , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Annual AMLA Fellowship 15 August – 30 November 2018 Have you recently set up or are you thinking of setting up a new platform that promotes African literature? Are you employed in a recently established literary and cultural initiative? Would… Read More ›

• Event: Angélique Kidjo (8th June, Royal Festival Hall, London)

  By Africa in Words on 30 May , 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Southbank Centre, London presents Angélique Kidjo singing Talking Heads At Royal Festival Hall 8th June From 7.30pm Angélique Kidjo’s latest project, her reinterpretation of the Talking Heads classic album Remain in Light, showcases thrilling new arrangements of the iconic songs. The… Read More ›

• Krotoa-Eva’s suite – a cape jazz poem in three movements, by Toni Stuart

  By Africa in Words Guest on 28 May , 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest Toni Stuart Africa in Words is thrilled to be able to share with you this audio-visual poem by Toni Stuart, an excerpt from her collection-in-progress Krotoa-Eva’s suite – a cape jazz poem in three movements.  Toni Stuart is a… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Ons Klyntji International Magazine (Deadline for submissions: 31st May)

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

  

    Ons Klyntji, an independent magazine of literature, art, music, culture and design, published and launched every year in South Africa at the Oppikoppi music festival is looking for submissions “written or visual”. There is no set theme, but there… Read More ›

• “Chance, eloko pamba”: A review of In Koli Jean Bofane’s Congo Inc.: Bismarck’s Testament

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

  

  AiW Guest: Connor Pruss Arjun Appadurai notably explained that globalization is marked by a new role for the imagination in social life in which the world may consist of regions (seen processually), but regions also imagine their own worlds. The… Read More ›

• Event: An Evening with Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Naomi Kruger (29th May, London)

  By Africa in Words on 23 May , 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  North West Literary Arts and Lancaster University present an evening of words with Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Naomi Kruger on the 29th May from 7pm – 9pm. Jennifer Makumbi will be reading from Kintu as well as a story from her forthcoming… Read More ›

• African Superheroes Blog Series: Introduction – What is an African superhero?

  By Africa in Words Guest on 21 May , 2018 • ( 5 )

  

  By AiW Guest Tessa Pijnaker This is the first of a series of posts on African superheroes, guest edited by Tessa Pijnaker, PhD student in African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. In this first post she introduces… Read More ›

• Event: ‘Kalushi’ (23rd May, South London Gallery)

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

  

  You are invited to the South by South screening of Kalushi (2017) directed by Mandla Dube at the South London Gallery on Wednesday 23rd May at 7pm South by South presents contemporary film from across Africa to audiences in the UK… Read More ›

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