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• Call for Work: Writing on Language, Culture and Development, Africa vs. Asia, deadline 30 April 2017

  By Africa in Words on 2 April , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  WRITING ON LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT, VOLUME 1, AFRICA Vs ASIA The two continents Africa and Asia contains over 77% of the world’s population, at least over 80 percent of the world’s languages and cultures, and both have lately witnessed leaps… Read More ›

• Q&A with Thulani Lupondwana on her Facebook Fiction, ‘Diary of a Cheating Husband’

  By Stephanie Santana on 30 March , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  At 23 years of age, Thulani Lupondwana is one of the few Facebook diary writers from South Africa who has continued to capture readers’ interest and “likes.” Following the enormous success of Mike Maphoto’s Diary of a Zulu Girl in… Read More ›

• CfP: Africa and New Networks of Cultural Mobility, 6-7 Oct 2017, Toronto, deadline: 1 Apr 2017

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

  Call for Papers Africa and the New Networks of Cultural Mobility Opportunities, Strategies and Limitations University of Toronto, October 6-7, 2017   “Issues of culture and identity have come to the forefront of international relations. This is not a passing… Read More ›

• Betwixt and between: A review of Mitu’s Spice Tour by Blessing Musariri

  By mattlecznar on 23 March , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Joanna Skelt This month, Joanna Skelt continues our deep dive into Eight New Generation African Poets with a review of Blessing Musariri’s Mitu’s Spice Tour. With a title evocative of a culinary travelogue, dreamcatcher-esque cover iconography and powerful series… Read More ›

• CfP: Festschrift for Niyi Osundare at 70, deadline 15 May 2017

  By Africa in Words on 22 March , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  STYLISTICS, LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: A FESTSCHRIFT FOR NIYI OSUNDARE AT 70 Professor Oluwaniyi Osundare – NNOM, scholar, teacher, stylistician, poet, playwright, public intellectual, newspaper columnist, etc. – will be seventy years old on March 12, 2017. The multiple award-winning poet… Read More ›

• CfP: Strategic Narratives of Technology and Africa, 1-2 Sept 2017, Madeira, deadline: 1 May 2017

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

  

  Strategic Narratives of Technology and Africa September 1-2, 2017, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Funchal, Portugal   Submission deadline: 1 May 2017 http://snta.m-iti.org/ Thematic Overview In 1884, a group of thirteen European policymakers met to negotiate standards for the “effective occupation” of… Read More ›

• South African author, Henrietta Rose-Innes, on cityscapes, self-contained stories, and Cape Town

  By Africa in Words Guest on 16 March , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Sana Goyal Edited excerpts from the Conversations in Bloomsbury event (March 10, 2017), held at SOAS, London, and which hosted Henrietta Rose-Innes and Brian Chikwava.   When Brian Chikwava and Henrietta Rose-Innes found themselves at SOAS for a… Read More ›

• Event: Literature and the Humanities in an Age of Autocracy Workshop, 24 March 2017, Bristol

  By Africa in Words on 15 March , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Literature and the Humanities in an Age of Autocracy  Workshop   24 March 2017 |University of Bristol 10.00-18.00   This third and final workshop in the ‘Ethics, Affect and Responsiblity: Global Citizenship and the Act of Reading’ will take place… Read More ›

• Review – Film about South African struggle hero Solomon Mahlangu opens in local cinemas

  By Africa in Words on 14 March , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW author: Heather Walker. A long-awaited South African film about struggle icon Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu opened in cinemas across South Africa this weekend. It will also be screened in London at the BFI on Thursday 6th April. Kalushi: The Story of… Read More ›

• CfP: Africa’s Informal Transport Workers: Reconfiguring the Margins, deadline: 10 April 2017

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

  

  Call for chapter proposals AFRICA’S INFORMAL TRANSPORT WORKERS: RECONFIGURING THE MARGINS With its micro-level approach towards one of the most pressing urban agenda in Africa today – that of public transport – this collection of field-based studies is a timely… Read More ›

• Event: Conversations in Bloomsbury: Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Nineveh, 10 March 2017, SOAS, London

  By Africa in Words on 8 March , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Conversations in Bloomsbury: Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Nineveh  10 March 2017, SOAS, London   Hosted by the Centre for English Studies, SOAS, together with the Southern Africa Seminar Series, University of London, the next edition of the Conversations in Bloomsbury events will… Read More ›

• After a long break, Nigerian Theatre picks up

  By Africa in Words Guest on 7 March , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Pelu Awofeso Actor and performance coach Toyin Oshinaike is teaching 80 thespians in an actors’ workshop at the Lagos Theatre Festival (28 Feb-5 March); all on their feet and attentive, they form a large rectangular ring around him…. Read More ›

• CfP: Cahiers d’études africaines – Contestatory/Contested Images, deadline 15 June 2017

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

  

  Call for Papers Cahiers d’études africaines – Contestatory/Contested Images     (English below) Nous vous invitons à répondre en grand nombre à cet appel à contributions pour le numéro thématique bilingue « Images contestataires, images contestées » que nous coordonnons pour les… Read More ›

• Anietie Isong’s Radio Sunrise shortlisted for the Kingston University Big Read 2017  

  By Africa in Words on 2 March , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Radio Sunrise by Anietie Isong has been shortlisted for the Kingston University Big Read project. The novel is one of the six shortlisted titles to be considered for staff and students to read before the 2017 academic year begins.  … Read More ›

• Event: Jalada Mobile Literary & Arts Festival, 3-31 March 2017, East Africa

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

  

  Jalada Mobile Literary & Arts Festival 3 – 31 March 2017 12 cities across East Africa   Jalada Mobile Literary & Arts Festival is a hybrid between a traditional festival and a bus literary and art tour, covering 12 cities/towns… Read More ›

• Event: Lagos Theatre Festival, 28 Feb – 05 March 2017, Lagos

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

  

  Lagos Theatre Festival 28 February – 05 March 2017   Lagos Theatre Festival founded by British Council in 2013, is a festival to present performing arts from Nigeria and the UK every february in Lagos. It has a part focus… Read More ›

• Ake Review 2015: interviews, short fiction and art

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

  

  AiW Guest: Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè continues his in-depth discussion of the Ake Review 2015. Read Part I, which discusses poetry, here. Ten Questions: African writers discuss their work The Ten Questions section of the Ake Review features festival guests… Read More ›

• CfP: Asixoxe – Let’s Talk: Africa of the Past, Africa of the Future, 5-6 May 2017; SOAS, London, deadline: 1 April 2017

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

  

  Africa of the past, Africa of the future: The dynamics of time in Africanist scholarship and art SOAS Lecture Series on African Science Fiction 1st February 5-7pm (S320) 22nd February 6-8pm (S314) 1 March 5-8pm (MB563) 8th March 4-8pm (22 … Read More ›

• How to Write (and Draw) History in Africa: A Review of Abina and the Important Men

  By mattlecznar on 23 February , 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest: Tamara Moellenberg The second edition of Trevor R. Getz’s and Liz Clarke’s Abina and the Important Men (OUP, 2016) creates a scholarly ‘forum’ around Abina, a nineteenth-century Ghanaian woman who sought her freedom from slavery through the British… Read More ›

• CfP: Global Africa Month – the Ngugi Workshop, 2 – 4 May 2017, Vienna, deadline: 15 March 2017

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

  

  Call for Papers: Global Africa Month – the Ngugi Workshop Prof Adams Bodomo Workshop on Strategies for the Promotion of African Language Literature University of Vienna Global African Diaspora Studies (GADS) Research Platform And Department of African Studies May 2… Read More ›

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