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• Event: Travelling with Coetzee, 29 Sept – 1 Oct 2017, Oxford

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  Travelling with Coetzee, Other Arts, other Languages 29 September – 1 October 2017, Oxford   Travelling with Coetzee: Other Arts, Other Languages is a two-day conference on the work of J.M. Coetzee to be held at the University of Oxford on 29-30 September. The conference aims… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Type/Cast 4th Issue: Contested Spaces, deadline 1 September 2017

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

  

    Call for Submissions Type/Cast Issue 4 Contested Spaces deadline: 1 September 2017   The Type/Cast editorial collective is thrilled to announce a new call for submissions. For our fourth issue submissions are open until midnight on Friday, 1 September 2017. We’re looking for… Read More ›

• Event: Jozi Book Fair 2017, 31 August – 3 September 2017, Johannesburg

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  Jozi Book Fair 31 August – 3 September 2017, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Newtown, Johannesburg   In partnership with the City of Johannesburg, the ninth Jozi Book Fair takes place from 31 August – 3 September 2017 at Mary Fitzgerald Square,… Read More ›

• Call for applications: Managing Editor for Africa in Words (voluntary position)

  By Africa in Words on 17 August , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Africa in Words is recruiting a volunteer to join our team as Managing Editor. Africa in Words has an average of 7,000 readers each month from over 100 countries, with our largest readerships based in the UK, US, South Africa… Read More ›

• Event: African Heritage Volunteer Tours in Europe 1600 – 1815, until 23 December 2017, London

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  African Heritage Volunteer Tours in Europe 1600 – 1815 Victoria & Albert Museum fridays and saturdays until 23 December 2017   Come and join our volunteer guides and share in their passion and pride as they reveal the extraordinary Afro-European… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Ake Review 2017, deadline: 31 August 2017

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  Call for Submissions Ake Review 2017 deadline: 31 August 2017 The Ake Arts and Book Festival is calling for submissions to the 2017 edition of our annual journal, Ake Review. This 5th Edition is themed This F-Word and will focus… Read More ›

• Event: Open Book Festival, 6-10 September 2017, Cape Town

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  Open Book Festival 6-10 September 2017, Cape Town Open Book Programme is Live! A record number of events at Open Book Festival   The full programme of events has been announced for the seventh Open Book Festival. The Festival takes… Read More ›

• The Keiskamma Guernicas – (re)making experiences of HIV/AIDS in the Eastern Cape. 3 short films from ‘Guernica Remakings’ (3).

  By Africa in Words Guest on 3 August , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Nicola Ashmore. AiW note: this post is the last continuing our AiW series about the project, book, and exhibition Guernica Remakings (University of Brighton, July 31 – August 23). Curated by our Guest Author Dr Nicola Ashmore, the… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: African Global Experiences, deadline: 21 February 2018

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  Call for Papers: African Global Experiences Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies (formerly The Journal of Pan African Studies; JPAS), a trans-disciplinary on-line peer reviewed scholarly journal devoted to the intellectual synthesis of research, scholarship and critical thought on the African… Read More ›

• The Keiskamma Guernicas – (re)making experiences of HIV/AIDS in the Eastern Cape. 3 short films from ‘Guernica Remakings’ (2)

  By Africa in Words Guest on 31 July , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Nicola Ashmore. AiW note: This post continues our AiW series about the project, book, and exhibition Guernica Remakings. Curated by our Guest Author Dr Nicola Ashmore (University of Brighton, July 31 – August 23), the exhibition features visual… Read More ›

• Call for Streams: ASAUK 2018, 11-13 September 2018, Birmingham, deadline: 15 September 2017

  By Africa in Words on 30 July , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Call for Streams: ASAUK 2018 11-13 September 2018, University of Birmingham deadline: 15 September 2017   The next ASAUK conference will be held on 11-13 September 2018 at the University of Birmingham, UK.   In order to limit panel clashes,… Read More ›

• The Keiskamma Guernicas – (re)making experiences of HIV/AIDS in the Eastern Cape. 3 short films from ‘Guernica Remakings’ (1).

  By Africa in Words Guest on 28 July , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Nicola Ashmore. This post continues our AiW series about the project and upcoming exhibition Guernica Remakings, curated by our Guest Author Dr Nicola Ashmore (University of Brighton, July 31 – August 23). The exhibition features visual artworks from across the… Read More ›

• The fifth Keiskamma Guernica: Guernica Remakings – an exhibition, Brighton UK.

  By Africa in Words Guest on 26 July , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Nicola Ashmore. This post marks the first in an AiW series introducing the project and upcoming exhibition, Guernica Remakings, curated by Dr Nicola Ashmore (University of Brighton). The exhibition, which opens next week (July 31), involves the display… Read More ›

• Familiar, yet utterly new: A Review of Fred Strydom’s The Inside Out Man

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

  

      AiW Guest: Kimmy Beach Bent is a gifted jazz pianist who plays in seedy nightclubs, lives in the “Crack Radisson”—a run-down flat in a Johannesburg suburb—and doesn’t seem to need much more in his life. With that deceptively… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Africa in Dialogue 1st Issue, deadline: 31 August 2017

  By Africa in Words on 16 July , 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Africa in Dialogue, an online interview magazine is excited to announce a call of submission for its First Issue. From  inception, Africa in Dialogue has been engaging in dialogues  with Africa’s leading storytellers on various contemporary, historic, philosophical and social discourses… Read More ›

• CfP: (Re)framing Narratives of Africa, 3-4 November 2017, BIEA Nairobi, deadline: 30 September 2017

  By Africa in Words on 12 July , 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2017 (Re)framing Narratives of Africa BIEA Graduate Conference November 3rd and 4th 2017 BIEA, Nairobi, Kenya   This year’s BIEA Graduate Conference is on the theme of (Re)framing Narratives of Africa. The narratives used to describe ‘Africa’ have… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Etisalat Prize for Literature 2018, deadline: 18 September 2017

  By Africa in Words on 9 July , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Lagos, Nigeria, 26 June 2017: Following the successful completion of the fourth edition of its flagship pan-African literary prize, Nigeria’s most innovative telecommunications company, Etisalat, has announced a call for entries for the 2018 Etisalat Prize for Literature. The opening… Read More ›

• Event: Kaduna Book & Arts Festival, 5-8 July 2017, Kaduna

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

  

    As part of its centenary celebrations, Kaduna State is introducing a literary event to its cultural calendar. The Kaduna Book & Arts Festival 2017 (KABAFEST) will feature over 50 writers, artists, actors, poets and performers who will share their work with… Read More ›

• Refreshingly focused on the fiction, but struggling for definition: a review of A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, edited by Ernest N. Emenyonu.

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

  

  AiW Guest: Matthew Lecznar Since the turn of the 21st-century, few authors have been able to implant themselves on the global literary imagination with the kind of deftness and flare exhibited by the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The author’s… Read More ›

• Review of Illuminate Theatre Performance: Unsettling the Certainties of the Air-Conditioned Room

  By Africa in Words on 3 July , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Carli Coetzee The second conference of the Lagos Studies Association has just taken place, at the University of Lagos. The conference had many memorable moments, but the one that stands out for me was when the panel was… Read More ›

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