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• Event: Africa in 2017: Prospects and Forecasts, 11 (&16) January 2017, London (&Birmingham)

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

  

  London: Wednesday 11th January, 18:30 – 20:30 Birmingham: Monday 16th January, 18:30 – 20:30 Join Us! The Royal African Society and the British Council present Africa in 2017: Prospects & Forecasts– a three city tour of panellists discussing what 2017 has… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Dwart’s Issue no 3, Uprooting, deadline: 2 March 2017

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

  

  Call for Submissions Dwart’s Issue No. 3 Theme: Uprooting deadline: 2nd March 2017   The theme for Dwart’s third issue is Uprooting. We are looking for original and compelling pieces that touch on this through such subthemes as death, spiritual… Read More ›

• Event: Global Conflict and World Literatures, 20 January 2017, University of Bristol

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

  

  Registration is now open for the second workshop in the series ‘Ethics, Affect and Responsibility: Global Citizenship and the Act of Reading’ which will take place from 10.30 a.m. – 5 p.m. on 20 January 2017 at the University of Bristol…. Read More ›

• Worthy of Note: the “Red Africa” series and the exhibition “Things Fall Apart”

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

  

  AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin continues her series examining the relationship between Africa and Eastern/Central Europe. The culmination of a two-year research project on “Socialist Friendship,” run by the Calvert 22 Foundation, was a series of events between February and April 2016… 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 4 January , 2017 • ( 1 )

  

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

• Q&A: ‘Law is an extension of Literature’, says Kyomuhendo Ateenyi, the Ugandan poet exiled in the law.

  By bwesigye on 2 January , 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire writes: I first came to know Kyomuhendo Ateenyi from his literary, epistolary and blogging practice at Makerere University. His poetry and political commentary published on university notice boards and a variety of blog platforms provided the metaphor… Read More ›

• CfP: Law and Social Order in Africa, 3-4 April 2017, University of Edinburgh, deadline: 6 January 2017

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

  

  Call for Papers  Law and Social Order in Africa  3rd – 4th April 2017  Centre of African Studies,  University of Edinburgh The creation and enforcement of law and the maintenance of social order are key concerns for states, societies, and individuals across Africa. However, the way in… Read More ›

• Book Review: Writing the Nigeria-Biafra War, a new critical volume edited by Toyin Falola and Ogechukwu Ezekwem

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 29 December , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Matthew Lecznar To sum up the varied literary legacies of the Nigeria-Biafra War (1967-70) in a single volume is no easy task. The conflict, which ended in the deaths of an estimated 1-2 million people, has produced a… Read More ›

• CfP: Black and Minority Ethnic Historians’ Workshop, 20 April, Leeds, deadline: 3 March 2017

  By Africa in Words on 28 December , 2016 • ( 0 )

  Black and Minority Ethnic Historians’ Workshop Call for Participants 20 April 2017, Grant Room (3.11), Michael Sadler Building University of Leeds People from black and minority ethnic communities are underrepresented in history as a discipline and across the Higher Education sector in general. As… Read More ›

• CfP: The Red and the Black – The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic, 14-15 October 2017, Lancashire, deadline: 31 January 2017

  By Africa in Words on 25 December , 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Call for Papers: The Red and the Black – The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic Conference to be held at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 14-15 October 2017, to mark the centenary… Read More ›

• Innovative exhibition puts African cities on the fashion map

  By mattlecznar on 22 December , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Harriet Hughes Fashion Cities Africa, the first major UK exhibition dedicated to presenting contemporary African Fashion design, opened at Brighton museum in April 2016. The aim of the exhibition is to present the fashion cultures of four African… Read More ›

• CfP: 3rd EALCS conference, 24-26 August 2017, Dar es Salaam, deadline extended: 08 January 2017

  By Africa in Words on 21 December , 2016 • ( 0 )

  The 3rd Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies (EALCS) Conference University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 24th -26th August, 2017 Theme: Cartographies of War and Peace in Eastern Africa Call for Papers, extended deadline: 08 January 2017… Read More ›

• In Black and White… Reflections from studies about Black people in everyday Polish language and in media discourse in Poland  

  By Africa in Words Guest on 19 December , 2016 • ( 8 )

  

  AiW Guest: Margaret Amaka Ohia AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin continues her series examining the relationship between Africa and Eastern/Central Europe, with this guest piece by Margaret Amaka Ohia.  My studies of discursive representations of Black people in the Polish language employ a critical, applied research… Read More ›

• CfP: The Deep South in the Global South, 6-8 April 2017, The University of Louisiana, deadline 20 December 2016

  By Africa in Words on 18 December , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  THE DEEP SOUTH IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH  “An Interdisciplinary Conference” Sponsored by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, English Graduate Student Association April 6-8, 2017 at The University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Lafayette, LA The Deep South in the Global South Conference… Read More ›

• Q&A: Uche Peter Umez interviews poet Niran Okewole

  By Africa in Words Guest on 15 December , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike Niran Okewole is the author of the widely-acclaimed Logarhythms. His poems have won the MUSON Festival Poetry Prizes in 2002 and 2003, and the Sawubona Music Jam/Berlin International Poetry Festival Prize in 2008. The Hate Artist is his latest… Read More ›

• Event: Addis Foto Fest, Addis Ababa, 15-20 December 2016

  By Africa in Words on 14 December , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Addis Foto Fest 2016 4th Edition 15 – 20 December 2015, Addis Ababa   The saying goes that an image can tell a thousand stories, that through an image we can imagine distant lands, learn about a time and space… Read More ›

• Warsaw in the 1980’s Through African Eyes

  By Africa in Words Guest on 12 December , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest Mamadou Diouf AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin continues her series examining the relationship between Africa and Eastern/Central Europe, with this guest piece by Mamadou Diouf.  I have lived in Warsaw for over thirty years, but I still remember January 1983. There was an on-going… Read More ›

• CfP: ALA conference 2017 – Africa and the World, deadline extended: 15 December 2016

  By Africa in Words on 11 December , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Call for Abstracts African Literature Association Conference 2017 Africa and the World: Literature, Politics, and Global Geographies Yale University, 14-17 June 2017 New deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2016 The theme chosen for the June 14-17, 2017 conference at Yale… Read More ›

• “In from the Cold War”: a colloquium on Eastern Europe, Africa and cultural diplomacy during the cold war

  By Africa in Words Guest on 9 December , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Iolanda Vasile This week, AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin continues her series examining the relationship between Africa and Eastern/Central Europe with this guest piece by Iolanda Vasile about the colloquium “In from the Cold War: Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War”, organized… Read More ›

• Book Review: The Rainbow’s Heart

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 8 December , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest Jen Aggleton continues our adventures in African children’s literature. The Rainbow’s Heart is a picture book written and illustrated by Richard Latimer, based on the author’s experiences of travelling in Botswana in the late 1970s. Originally published in 1982, it has… Read More ›

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