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• Event: Literary Weekender, Ghana & Nigeria: a Literary Highlife, 25-28 May 2017, London

  By Africa in Words on 24 May , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Litro Magazine’s Literary Weekender   London’s first literary festival celebrating Ghanaian and Nigerian literature  and their cultural landscapes   Journey to West Africa for Litro Magazine’s latest #WorldSeries instalment – an inaugural Literary Weekender – to explore the cultural and… Read More ›

• Ba re e ne re: Building a Community of Writers and Readers in Lesotho

  By Africa in Words Guest on 22 May , 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest Lineo Segoete. Lineo Segoete is Programming Director at Ba re e ne re. This piece on the history and mission of the arts initiative Ba re e ne re and its flagship project, the Ba re e ne… Read More ›

• CFP: AASA biennial meeting in Accra, Ghana Oct 12-14, 2017, deadline: 31 May 2017

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

  

  AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AFRICA (ASAA) 2ND Biennial Conference: African Studies and Global Politics The University of Ghana, Legon October 12-14, 2017 CALL FOR PROPOSALS DEADLINE: May 31st 2017 The African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) was established in 2013… Read More ›

• Q&A: Beautiful Nubia: “Our music is art on a journey”

  By Africa in Words Guest on 17 May , 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest: Tope Salaudeen-Adegoke Beautiful Nubia, the stage name for Segun Akinlolu, is widely acclaimed by music critics as Nigeria’s foremost contemporary folklorist. He is an artist with a vibrant soul who combines the Yoruba traditional percussion with other modern… Read More ›

• CfP: The Renaissance in Africa, RSA 2018 New Orleans, 22–24 March 2018, deadline: 1 June 2017

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

  

  The Renaissance in Africa, Renaissance Society of America NOLA 2018 CFP: Interdisciplinary panel at Renaissance Society of America, New Orleans, 22-24 March 2018: deadline: 01 June 2017   “The Renaissance in Africa”: While the Renaissance has been regarded as a… Read More ›

• Event: Kampala International Theatre Festival, 22-26 November, 2017

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

  

  Call for Submissions 2017 Kampala International Theatre Festival 4th edition, 22nd – 26th November 2017 We are excited to announce the 4th edition of the Kampala International Theatre Festival that will take place from 22nd – 26th November 2017 in Kampala, Uganda…. Read More ›

• CfP: Life Narratives: Self-Representation in an Age of Human Rights, 14 June 2017, Johannesburg, deadline: 10 May 2017

  By Africa in Words on 7 May , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Call for Papers Life Narratives: Self-Representation in an Age of Human Rights A One-Day Symposium for Postgraduate Students and Early-Career Researchers at the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre (JHGC), Wednesday 14th June 2017 Featuring a keynote address from Mark Gevisser,… Read More ›

• Event: Postcolonialism in Interdisciplinary Perspective, 17 May 2017, Birmingham

  By Africa in Words on 7 May , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Postcolonialism in Interdisciplinary Perspective. Wednesday 17th of May 2017 The Danford Room, Dept. of African Studies and Anthropology, Second Floor, Arts Building, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT 9:00 – 9:30 Registration/ Tea and Coffee (Fage Library) 9:30 – 9:45 Welcome… Read More ›

• Event: 6th African Popular Cultures Workshop – Biafra 50 years on – University of Sussex, 17th May 2017

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

  

  The School of English and the Sussex Africa Centre invite you to the ​6th African Popular Cultures Workshop at the University of Sussex, ‘Biafra 50 years on’ Wednesday 17th May, 3.00pm – 6.30pm, Arts C, Room C333 Workshop Programme 3.00pm –… Read More ›

• Call for Volunteers: Africa Writes, London, 30 June – 2 July, deadline 10 May 2017

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

  

  Africa Writes will be back for its 2017 edition at The British Library from Friday 30 June to Sunday 2 July. We are looking for volunteers who are passionate about African literature and would like to be a part of the… Read More ›

• Q&A: Literary scholar and novelist Elleke Boehmer on ‘Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds’

  By Kate Wallis on 28 April , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Yesterday evening marked the beginning of ‘Great Writers Inspire at Home’ – a series of workshops running over the next term at the University of Oxford which puts reading groups into dialogue with contemporary British writers, including Aminatta Forna and… Read More ›

• Event: Retrospective on Moustapha Alassane, MoMA, 12–15 May 2017

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

  

  Retrospective on Moustapha Alassane, Pioneer of the Golden Age of Nigerien Cinema MoMA, 12–15 May 2017 This first North American retrospective of Moustapha Alassane (1942–2015), a pioneer of populist cinema in newly independent Niger in the 1960s and 1970s, is… Read More ›

• CfP: Public Service and Community Interpreting in Africa, 6 Oct 2017, Freiburg, deadline 30 April 2017

  By Africa in Words on 23 April , 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  CfP: Public Service and Community Interpreting in Africa Workshop on 6 October 2017 in Freiburg, Germany deadline: 30 April 2017   On the 6 October 2017, the Institute of Multilingualism at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, will host a 1-day… Read More ›

• CfP: Workshop ‘Colonialism and education in a comparative perspective: Analysing gendered civilizing missions (ca. 1850-1970)’, 26 Oct 2017, Florence, deadline 20 Apr 2017

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

  Call for Papers European University Institute (EUI, Florence) Workshop ‘Colonialism and education in a comparative perspective: analysing gendered civilizing missions (ca. 1850-1970)’ 26 October 2017, Florence deadline: 20 April 2017   In recent years, education has received renewed attention from… Read More ›

• Event: Burning Issues in African Philosophy with Lewis Gordon, 19 Apr 2017, Columbia University

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

  

  Burning Issues in African Philosophy with Lewis Gordon Date:  April 19, 2017 – 7:00pm – 9:00pm Location: Heyman Common Room Free and open to the public  |  ID required Burning Issues in African Philosophy is curated by Drucilla Cornell and… Read More ›

• Event: Legacies of Biafra Conference, 21-22 April 2017, London

  By Africa in Words on 16 April , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  The 6th International Igbo Conference Legacies of Biafra – Reflections on the Nigeria-Biafra War 50 years on 21-22 April 2017, SOAS, London The ‘Legacies of Biafra’ conference seeks to explore the on-going impact of the war locally and globally, considering… Read More ›

• CfP: Africa Conference on Economic Costs of Disasters (ACECD 2017), 23-25 Oct 2017, Pretoria, deadline 15 April 2017

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

  

  Call for Papers Africa Conference on Economic Costs of Disasters (ACECD 2017) The Role of the Private Sector in Disaster Risk Reduction  Pretoria, South Africa on 23 – 25 October, 2017   The Africa Conference on Economic Costs of Disasters… Read More ›

• Call for Poetry Submissions / Appel à contributions poétiques: A Song for Burundi, Deadline 15 April 2017.

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

  

  Call for Poetry Submissions: A Song for Burundi Huza Press in collaboration with Africa Writes and Jalada Africa is pleased to announce a call for submissions for a poetry anthology from Burundians living in exile. Inspired by the creative force… Read More ›

• CfP: ‘Six Mountains on her back’ (Re) thinking African Feminisms Colloquium 2017, 21-22 July 2017, Rhodes University, deadline: 15 May 2017

  By Africa in Words on 5 April , 2017 • ( 5 )

  

  ‘Six Mountains on her back’ (Re) thinking African Feminisms Colloquium 2017 Rhodes University 21-22 July 2017 https://findingafricaseminar.wordpress.com African feminisms have, since their inception over a century ago, been grounded in inclusive and intersectional discourses which seek to challenge and unravel… Read More ›

• “German Colonialism: Fragments Past and Present” at The Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, 14 October 2016 to 14 May 2017

  By Africa in Words Guest on 3 April , 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Author: Katarzyna Kubin “In the late 19th and early 20th century, the German Empire was one of the largest European colonial powers,” states the Foreword to the catalogue for the Deutsches Historisches Museum’s exhibit on German colonial history. Unlike… Read More ›

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