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• The Problem with the Prophet: Review of Alain Mabanckou’s Black Moses

  By Africa in Words Guest on 23 October , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Sarah Ahrens The first thing that struck me about the English translation of the latest novel of Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa’s arguably most successful living writer was its title: Black Moses is quite a departure from the original French… Read More ›

• Finding Affiliations: Reading Communities, Literary Institutions & Small Magazines

  By Africa in Words Guest on 21 October , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest Sarah Smit Earlier this year a group of academics, writers and literary producers came together in Cape Town for a workshop convened by Chris Ouma and Madhu Krishnan exploring ‘Small Magazines, Black Archives and Personal Histories’. This piece engages… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Mawazo Novel Writing Workshop

  By Africa in Words on 19 October , 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW thanks to Mawazo Africa Writing Institute for this info about their upcoming writing workshop… Call for Submissions: Mawazo Novel Writing Workshop Mawazo Africa Writing Institute announces a Call for Submissions for its first writing workshop: Writing the Novel, led by award-winning author Jennifer… Read More ›

• CfP: Theorising Africa: Reviewing a History of Ideas, Finding Africa Seminar Series, 2018

  By Africa in Words on 15 October , 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW thanks to Finding Africa for this info about their 2018 seminar series… Finding Africa 2017/18 (UK)  Theorising Africa: Reviewing a History of Ideas University of Leeds Seminar Series 2018 – Call For Papers

• Event: Bertha DocHouse Presents Ouaga Girls

  By Africa in Words on 12 October , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW thanks to Bertha DocHouse for this info on their upcoming film release… Bertha DocHouse Presents Ouaga Girls 13th October 2017 | Bertha DocHouse | Tickets: £9 (£7 conc.) “With Ouaga Girls I wanted to capture … when dreams, desires and courage… Read More ›

• A Study in Contrast: A Review of Stanley Gazemba’s Forbidden Fruit

  By Africa in Words Guest on 10 October , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Amanda Anderson Stanley Gazemba’s 2002 novel Forbidden Fruit, previously published in Kenya as The Stone Hills of Maragoli, presents a tightly woven tapestry of human experience. The narrative follows Ombima, a poor man from the small village of… Read More ›

• Q&A: Writer and Filmmaker Yaba Badoe

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

  

  This weekend at the Africa Writes Pop-Up in Bristol, Yaba Badoe will launch The Secret of the Purple Lake (Cassava Republic Press) – a collection of five interlinked stories that take us from Ghana to Orkney, and from Spain to… Read More ›

• Event: Africa Writes Bristol Pop-Up, 6-7 October 2017

  By Africa in Words on 1 October , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Africa Writes, the UK’s biggest annual African literature and book festival brought to you by the Royal African Society, comes to Bristol for the first time, from Friday 6th October to Saturday 7th October 2017, presenting a vibrant programme of… Read More ›

• Events – Launch of Saraba Magazine First Print Issue: “Transitions”

  By Africa in Words on 1 October , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW thanks to Saraba Magazine for this info on their upcoming print issue… “Transitions,” our first print issue, will be released October 2, 2017. We have gathered writings—reportage, short stories, travel essays, poems—befitting of our foray into print. Our contributors are writers… Read More ›

• Q&A: The Importance of Writing and the Benefits of Travel – An interview with Iman Verjee at Open Book 2017.

  By Africa in Words Guest on 29 September , 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest: Katarzyna Kubin. Iman Verjee is a novelist living in Nairobi, Kenya with two novels published by the award-winning independent, Oneworld Publications: Who will Catch us as we Fall (2016) and In Between Dreams (2014). Both novels were promoted… Read More ›

• Voices from the Seventh Edition of the Open Book Festival, Cape Town, 2017.

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 September , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Katarzyna Kubin. One of the most exciting, world-class literary events, the Open Book Festival, takes place annually at the start of spring in Cape Town, South Africa, spear-headed by the independent bookshop, The Book Lounge, and the renowned Fugard… Read More ›

• Old is New: A Review of Emmanuel Dongala’s Jazz and Palm Wine

  By Africa in Words Guest on 25 September , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: David Borman   I first encountered Jazz and Palm Wine in fragmentary form. As a student who read French poorly yet took a course on Francophone African Literature, I was allowed to read translations of our coursework, and… Read More ›

• CFP/Appel: African Literature and the Press / Presse et littérature africaine(s)

  By Africa in Words on 24 September , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  19 – 20 March 2018  – Conference – Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3 – RIRRA21 African Literature and the Press / Presse et littérature africaine(s)  Call for papers / Appel à communications Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2017. The principal language of… Read More ›

• Okey Ndibe’s orchestra

  By Africa in Words Guest on 18 September , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Pelu Awofeso “I am a student of Chinua Achebe,” Okey Ndibe says near the end of his reading at University of Lagos’ Faculty of Arts last July. “But as a writer, my temperament is between [Wole] Soyinka, Achebe… Read More ›

• Event/s: Fashion Africa with Brighton Museum & Art Gallery – Wikithon (23/09) & Textile Study Day (29/09)

  By Africa in Words on 17 September , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Saturday 23 September: African Fashion: Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon event 10:30-16:30, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, FREE (part of Brighton Digital Festival) Come and help update Wikipedia, to provide more articles and images on African fashion and textile design. Full training and support… Read More ›

• The global concerns of southern African photography

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 September , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Oyedepo Olukotun  It is interesting to observe that a number of the 2017 summer exhibitions in London, UK, have coalesced around the storyline of Blackness. On the forefront with this storyline is Tate Modern’s Soul of a Nation:… Read More ›

• Event: Coetzee & the Archive Conference, Thursday 5 – Friday 6 October 2017, Senate House, London.

  By Africa in Words on 13 September , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Coetzee & the Archive 5-6 October 2017 School of Advanced Study, Senate House, University of London http://www.coetzeeandthearchive.co.uk/ Convenors: Marc Farrant (Goldsmiths) & Kai Easton (SOAS) (Note: the Coetzee reading and event has been rescheduled to Friday 6 October due to… Read More ›

• Self-help as Warfare: Lola Akande’s campus novel and What it Takes to be a Woman who Succeeds on a University Campus

  By Africa in Words Guest on 11 September , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Carli Coetzee The title of Lola Akande’s novel What it Takes can be interpreted in more than one way. The novel can be read as a celebratory narrative of the extraordinary achievements of the protagonist, Funto Oyewole, as… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: 2nd Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation International Conference 2018

  By Africa in Words on 10 September , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  2nd Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) International Conference 22-24 March 2018 University of the Witwatersrand   CALL FOR PANELS AND PAPERS Conference Theme Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) is a research network launched in July 2015 with the aim… Read More ›

• Call for Writers/Illustrators: An Invisible Borders Project, deadline 9 October 2017

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

  

  The journey series: An Invisible Borders Project 28 August 2017 | by Innocent Ekejiuba As part of our goal to redefine the place of contemporary Africans in the world, and to foster understanding of African experiences and identities, Invisible Borders will embark… Read More ›

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