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• Event & CfP: The African Gender Institute, Cape Town

  By Africa in Words on 17 January , 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Event: Queer Feminist Film Festival (19th Jan, Cape Town) The African Gender Institute brings you an exciting event: the Queer Feminist Film Festival. We are proud to partner with Triangle Project, Bertha Movie House and OXFAM South Africa on this… Read More ›

• CFP: Researching Africa Day 2018 (abstracts deadline 19th Jan, 2018)

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

  

  ‘African Studies Beyond the Binary: Critical Encounters at the Intersection’ St. Antony’s College, supported by the African Studies Centre University of Oxford Saturday 3 March 2018 Researching Africa Day is a conference for graduate students. Abstract submissions are welcome from… Read More ›

• CFP: Afro-Intellectualism: Past, Present, and Future Dimensions (abstracts deadline 24 Feb, 2018)

  By Africa in Words on 10 January , 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies (formerly The Journal of Pan African Studies; JPAS), a trans-disciplinary on-line multilingual peer reviewed open-access scholarly journal devoted to the intellectual synthesis of research, scholarship and critical thought on the African experience around the world, is seeking… Read More ›

• Symposium: Small Magazines, Literary Networks and Self-Fashioning in Africa and its Diasporas. 19-20 Jan, University of Bristol.

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

  

  Small Magazines, Literary Networks and Self-Fashioning in Africa and its Diasporas 19-20 January 2018 University of Bristol, UK Keynote speakers: Stacy Hardy (Chimurenga) and Moradewun Adejunmobi (UC Davis) With a workshop held by Africa in Words’ editors exploring small magazines… Read More ›

• Looking Back and Looking Forward: Happy New Year from AiW

  By Kristen Stern on 25 December , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Season’s greetings from the team at Africa in Words! Thanks for your readership and for another year of conversations on writing and culture from the African continent. As 2017 comes to a close, the blog is moving through some transitions…. Read More ›

• Call Out: New Writing & Artwork, RadioBook Rwanda, Deadline 25 January 2018

  By Africa in Words on 19 December , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Huza Press (RW) invites submissions of short fiction and nonfiction by Rwandan writers and artwork by Rwandan and Kenyan artists for a new imprint created in collaboration with No Bindings (UK) and Kwani Trust (KE). This new book series brings… Read More ›

• Review: Revisiting Makhosazana Xaba’s These Hands – Poems

  By Africa in Words Guest on 20 November , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Stephanie Selvick I asked Makhosazana Xaba what it was like hearing that her debut collection of poetry, These Hands: Poems (2005), was accepted by Modjaji Books for a reprint due to demand by readers and teachers. “There is… Read More ›

• Event: LUCAS Annual Lecture with Professor Ato Quayson (06 Dec, University of Leeds)

  By Africa in Words on 19 November , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  LUCAS Annual Lecture We are delighted to announce details of the LUCAS Annual Lecture for this academic year: Conscripts of Colonial Modernity in Chinua Achebe’s Rural Novels Professor Ato Quayson (New York University)

• CfP: Archives of Resistance (deadline Jan 15th, 2018)

  By Africa in Words on 15 November , 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Image via The National Archives UK Archives of Resistance: Cosmopolitanism, Memory and World Literature Three-Day International Conference University of Leeds, June 20-22 2018

• CFP: Small Magazines, Literary Networks and Self-Fashioning in Africa and its Diasporas (deadline for abstracts 30 Nov)

  By Africa in Words on 12 November , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  CFP Small Magazines, Literary Networks and Self-Fashioning in Africa and its Diasporas 19-20 January 2018 University of Bristol, UK This two-day conference seeks to explore the role of small magazines, literary journals and periodicals and other alternative print cultures from… Read More ›

• Event: LUCAS Seminar on participatory filmmaking, development and youth leadership in the East Rand, South Africa (21 Nov, 5pm, University of Leeds)

  By Africa in Words on 10 November , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The next LUCAS Seminar will be…

• CFP: African Street Literatures (abstracts deadline 15 Dec, 2017)

  By Africa in Words on 8 November , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  This is an open call for papers for a special issue of English Studies in Africa that will focus on African street literature. By this, the editors mean literature that emerges and is shaped by the specific factors determining everyday… Read More ›

• Neatly packaged snapshots of often inaccessible headlines: A Review of The Hamburger that Killed Jorge

  By Africa in Words Guest on 6 November , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Nafeesah Allen The Hamburger that Killed Jorge is an anthology of short stories, written by young and emerging Mozambican writers, meant to open an aperture for a new branch of crime fiction. Born out of a 2016 national… Read More ›

• Event: Black Book Swap 10 (London, Sat. Nov 18)

  By Africa in Words on 5 November , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  BLACK BOOK SWAP 10 Saturday 18 November 2017 – Omnibus Theatre, London SW4 0QW Black Book Swap, London’s premier event dedicated to the work of Black authors, returns on Saturday 18 November, from 12:30 –  4:45pm. Get your tickets for the tenth… Read More ›

• Event: Bertha DocHouse presents: Thank You for the Rain

  By Africa in Words on 5 November , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Bertha DocHouse (London) presents Thank You for the Rain From 17 November | Bertha DocHouse (based at Curzon, Bloomsbury)| Tix £9 (£7 conc.) From Friday, 17th November, Bertha DocHouse (dochouse.org –  who recently brought us the debut feature from Swedish director Theresa Traoré… Read More ›

• Review: African Roads (‘L’Afrique des routes’) exhibition

  By Africa in Words Guest on 2 November , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest Connor Pruss. The Quai Branly Museum (Musée du Quai Branly) in Paris currently features the exhibition “African Roads (‘L’Afrique des routes’)” from Jan. 31st – Nov. 12th, 2017. In the introduction, the curators propose to challenge the preconception… Read More ›

• ‘A secret history of the nation’: Small Magazines at Writivism 2017

  By Africa in Words Guest on 30 October , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest Nathan Suhr-Sytsma How does our sense of cultural and literary history shift if we start not from celebrity authors or landmark novels but from small magazines and the literary networks they foster? This question motivated the discussions of… Read More ›

• Q&A: First issue of the The Single Story Foundation Journal

  By Africa in Words on 30 October , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The rather beautiful, inaugural issue of the online TSSF (The Single Story Foundation) Journal is live. You can read individual published pieces on their newly designed website: http://journal.singlestory.org.  And, you can read and download the entire journal at: http://journal.singlestory.org/issues/. Wale Owoade,… Read More ›

• 4 Years, 42 Honeycomb Grain Silos, 1 Remarkable Museum – Will Zeitz MOCAA take us into an Afrofuture?

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 October , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Katarzyna Kubin. September was a busy month of cultural events in South Africa. The Jozi Book Fair in Johannesburg took place over three days from 31st August to 3rd September. The Open Book Festival followed in Cape Town… Read More ›

• Event: African Writers, Readers and Historians Gather in London to Remember Makerere.

  By Africa in Words Guest on 25 October , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Africa in Words Guest: Robert Gates. SOAS African Literatures Conference: 55 years after the first Makerere African Writers Conference Saturday 28 October 2017 | 9.30am-7.30pm Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre | SOAS University of London bit.ly/SOASAfrLitsTix African writers-novelists, playwrights, poets and… Read More ›

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