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• Call for applications: Reviews Editor for Africa in Words

  By Rebecca Jones on 21 February , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Africa in Words is recruiting a volunteer to join our team as a Reviews Editor. Africa in Words has an average of 6500 readers each month from over 100 countries, with our largest readerships based in the UK, US, South… Read More ›

• Ake Review 2015: Engaging the Fringe Through Literature

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

  

  AiW Guest: Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè The official annual Ake Arts and Book Festival journal, Ake Review, gives insights into the festival guests’ takes on many issues, from the mundane to the atypical, and features creative works from other writers. A journal of… Read More ›

• Event: The Global Soul: Imagining the Cosmopolitan, 27-28 March 2017, Washington D.C.

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

  

  The Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice Presents THE GLOBAL SOUL Imagining the Cosmopolitan March 27-28, 2017 Washington D.C. Presented in collaboration with the Bath Spa Centre for Transnational Creativity and Education “The assumption that people will live their lives… Read More ›

• Exhibition preview: Lady Skollie’s “Lust Politics” — at London’s Tyburn Gallery until 4 March

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

  

  AiW Guest: Sana Goyal Whet your appetite in advance of your visit to Lady Skollie’s Lust Politics at London’s Tyburn Gallery, where the South African artist serves up a platter of playful, pleasurable, and provocative fruits that are likely to… Read More ›

• 76 – a beautifully-told film about Nigeria’s pre-democracy years

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

  

  AiW Guest: Yemisi Arowosafe Telling a historical tale as authentically and accurately as possible is one that every good story teller strives to attain. The Nigerian pre-democracy story is one that has been told in a myriad of fictional texts,… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: Journal of West African History

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

  

  Call for Papers: Journal of West African History Founding Editor-in-chief: Nwando Achebe Associate Editors: Hilary Jones and John Thabiti Willis Book Review Editor: Harry Odamtten The Journal of West African History (JWAH) is a new interdisciplinary peer-reviewed research journal that publishes the highest… Read More ›

• Event: African Writers Festival, Brown University, 15 February 2017

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

  

  African Writers Festival Wednesday, February 15, 2017 9:30 am—3:30 pm McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown Street, Providence In the almost six decades since Chinua Achebe published Things Fall Apart and brought African writing into the consciousness of the West, African writers have… Read More ›

• Review of Amid the Chaos by Nathan H. Mogos

  By mattlecznar on 9 February , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Allison Shelton Early in Nathan H. Mogos’s novel, Amid the Chaos (CreateSpace Publishing, 2016), best friends and partners in crime Misghe and Chenkelo express their opposing views regarding life in Asmara, capital city of Eritrea: “‘It is just not… Read More ›

• CfP: Decolonizing Communicative Praxis with ‘Words that Remake Life’, 9-10 April 2017, Clark University, deadline: 15 February 2017

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

  

  Decolonizing Communicative Praxis with ‘Words that Remake Life’[1] A Two-Part Workspace 9 -10 April 2017 Clark University In this two-part workspace, a collective of transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary scholars will come together to deliberate on and practice new modes of communicative… Read More ›

• African literature and the next generation of writing back

  By Africa in Words Guest on 6 February , 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  AiW Guest: Rashna Batliwala Singh In his now iconic essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent” T. S. Eliot famously says “No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his… Read More ›

• CfP: Cadbury Conference: Marriage in Africa, 1-2 June 2017, Birmingham, deadline: 10 March 2017

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

  

  Cadbury Conference: Marriage in Africa 1-2 June 2017, Birmingham deadline: 10 March 2017   The Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham invites proposals for papers at its annual Cadbury conference, to be held on 1 and… Read More ›

• Event: African Speculative Fiction Lecture Series, London, February-March 2017

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

  

  African Speculative Fiction Lecture Series SOAS, University of London 1 February – 22 March 2017 The Department of African Languages and Cultures, SOAS, University of London, is hosting a new a lecture series from February 2017 focusing on speculative fiction… Read More ›

• Film Review: Hissene Habré: A Chadian Tragedy by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

  By mattlecznar on 26 January , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Dare Dan Have you seen Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing (2012), the gruelling tale of the annihilation of communists in 1965/66 Indonesia? Well, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Hissene Habré: A Chadian Tragedy is such a story; no less provoking,… Read More ›

• CfP: Social Media in Africa: Beyond the hashtag, 27 April 2017, Edinburgh, deadline 27 January 2017

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

  

  Call for papers: ‘Social Media in Africa: Beyond the hashtag’  ‘Social Media in Africa: Beyond the hashtag’ Call for papers that address the diverse uses and affects of social media in Africa. Workshop: 27th April 2017; CAS, University of Edinburgh;… Read More ›

• One-Day Course: Mapping the City in Contemporary African Literature, Saturday 4 March 2017, University of Bristol

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

  

  One-Day Course: Mapping the City in Contemporary African Literature Tutor: Kate Haines Date: Saturday 4 March 2017 Time: 10.30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Venue: Department of English, University of Bristol, 3/5 Woodland Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1TB How are contemporary African… Read More ›

• CfP: Paper, Airwaves, Screen: From Text to Audience in African Popular Culture, 12-13 July 2017, Bristol, deadline: 15 February 2017

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

  

  Paper, airwaves, screen: from text to audience in African popular culture   CALL FOR PAPERS University of Bristol, UK 12-13 July 2017 deadline: 15 February 2017   Confirmed keynotes: Lydie Moudileno (University of Pennsylvania), Tsitsi Jaji (Duke University) Recent artworks,… Read More ›

• Event: Nigerian Night, 25 January, London

  By Africa in Words on 18 January , 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Nigeria Night: Satirical and provocative portraits from two native voices Wednesday 25th January 19:00 London, Piccadilly Anietie Isong started his career as a journalist with Radio Nigeria. His short stories have been broadcast on the BBC and Radio Nigeria and… Read More ›

• Q&A: poet-psychiatrist Femi Oyebode on literature, medical humanities and the mind

  By Africa in Words Guest on 16 January , 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest: Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè Femi Oyebode is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham, UK, and the current author of Sim’s Symptoms in the Mind (4th edition). His other books include Mindreadings: literature and psychiatry & Madness at the Theatre…. Read More ›

• CfP: Dynamics of Global Inequality: New Thinking in Global Affairs, 21 April 2017, Newark, deadline: 27 January 2017

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

  Dynamics of Global Inequality: New Thinking in Global Affairs 2017 Annual Global Affairs Graduate Student Conference Rutgers Division of Global Affairs, Newark, NJ, April 21, 2017   Current events across the globe have demonstrated the urgent need for new ways… Read More ›

• Review of The Chameleon House: Short Stories by Melissa de Villiers

  By mattlecznar on 12 January , 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Anu Kumar In the title story in Melissa de Villiers’ collection The Chameleon House (Modjaji Books, 2015), Dena, the one who seemingly holds the group together, is always the outsider. As the unnamed narrator reveals, Dena tastes the… Read More ›

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