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• Q&A: Uche Peter Umez interviews poet Obiwu

  By Africa in Words Guest on 26 September , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Uche Peter Umez ‘Poetry is sometimes the only glimmer of hope in the darkest corners and most difficult conditions of life.’ – Obiwu Obiwu teaches English in the Department of Humanities, Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio, United States…. Read More ›

• Call for Abstracts: WAGADU special issue: African and Diasporic Women’s Literature, deadline: 27 September 2016

  By Africa in Words on 25 September , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  WAGADU: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies CFP:  African and Diasporic Women’s Literature: Transitions, Transformations and Transnationalism With the new wave of African and African Diasporic women writers, the transnational sphere has enlarged to encompass voices that were… Read More ›

• CfP: 3rd EALCS conference, 24-26 August 2017, Dar es Salaam, deadline: 31 November 2016

  By Africa in Words on 21 September , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  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, deadline: 31 November 2016 The… Read More ›

• Q&A: Ifeanyi Awachie on curating Yale’s Africa Salon: bringing African conversations and African cool to Yale

  By Rebecca Jones on 19 September , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Africa Salon is a contemporary African arts and culture festival founded in 2015 at Yale University. The Salon is a week-long feast of visual art, music, dance, literature, film and more from Africa and the diaspora, and it has brought… Read More ›

• CfP: “Ukutshona kukaMendi”/ “Ukuzika kukaMendi”: The Mendi Centenary Conference, 28-30 March 2017, Cape Town, deadline: 30 September 2016

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

  

  “Ukutshona kukaMendi”/ “Ukuzika kukaMendi”: The Mendi Centenary Conference, 28-30 March 2017, Cape Town Deadline: 30 September 2016 This conference, hosted by the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, commemorates the sinking of the SS Mendi that… Read More ›

• Review of Chris Abani’s Song for Night

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 15 September , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Alexandra Schultheis Moore This week, Alexandra Schultheis Moore continues our summer voyage into African children’s literature. First published in 2007 and recently re-issued by Telegram in the UK, Chris Abani’s novella, Song for Night, offers a compelling story as well… Read More ›

• Call for Abstracts: ALA conference 2017 – Africa and the World, deadline 15 November 2016

  By Africa in Words on 14 September , 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  Call for Abstracts African Literature Association Conference 2017 Africa and the World: Literature, Politics, and Global Geographies The theme chosen for the June 14-17, 2017 conference at Yale seeks to engage with and interrogate recent shifts in critical and theoretical… Read More ›

• Sahel Sounds: Inspiration from West Africa

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

  

  AiW Guest: Kev Kelly This post originally appeared on Sign Records’ blog and is re-published with their permission. We love Sahel Sounds. Set up by the adventurous Christopher Kirkley, it started as a project to release interesting and rare music… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: My Africa, My City, deadline: 30th September 2016

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

  

  Call for Submissions My Africa, My City Afridiaspora webzine Deadline: 30th September 2016 Afridiaspora, a pan-African literary webzine focused on showcasing beautiful African stories written by African writers at home and in the diaspora is pleased to announce a call… Read More ›

• Event: Print Culture and Publishing in Africa Colloquium, 13 September 2016, Oxford

  By Africa in Words on 7 September , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Print Culture and Publishing in Africa 13 Sep 2016 Oxford Brookes University Print Culture and Publishing in Africa is a one-day colloquium taking place at Oxford Brookes University on Tuesday 13th September 2016 from 9.00am-6.00pm at Headington Hill Hall, Headington… Read More ›

• A Review of Stacy Hardy’s Because the Night

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 5 September , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Anu Kumar It is almost an anomaly of sorts: that any literary work from South Africa, as from India for that matter, demands a certain context—who is telling the story and why. But Stacy Hardy’s short stories—and all the… Read More ›

• Event: Open Book Festival, 7-11 September 2016, Cape Town

  By Africa in Words on 4 September , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  The Book Lounge and the Fugard Theatre invite you to Open Book Festival  7 – 11 September 2016 HERE ARE SOME OF THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO WILL BE JOINING US! Some of you may have noticed names popping up… Read More ›

• Eric 1Key’s Entre 2: Gene Aise, 1Key’s life story

  By Africa in Words Guest on 1 September , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the final post in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kiswahili and French to… Read More ›

• Event: A’friquency – The New Sound of Africa, 9 September 2016, London

  By Africa in Words on 31 August , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  A’FRIQUENCY: The New Sound of Africa – London Launch w/ Efya, Silvastone, DJ Edu, New Age Musik, DJ Neptizzle, Adam Tiran On Friday September 9th, pan-African international event series A’friquency lands in London for an all-star launch party showcasing the… Read More ›

• Eric 1Key’s Entre 2: a ‘story about a hero and a coward’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 29 August , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the third in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kinyarwanda and French… Read More ›

• Call for Applications: Artists in Residency, Africa Centre, deadline: 30 September 2016

  By Africa in Words on 28 August , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Since its inception in 2011, the Africa Centre’s Artist in Residency Programme (AIR) has successfully awarded 39 African artists the chance to take up residencies across the globe.  Through continued partnerships with residency programmes in Australia, Brazil, India, Spain, China and the United… Read More ›

• Eric 1Key’s Entre 2 -Virtually Yours, an ‘online love story’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 25 August , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the second in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kinyarwanda and French to English. We are… Read More ›

• Event: #Babishai2016 Poetry Festival, 24 to 26 August 2016, Kampala

  By Africa in Words on 24 August , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  The #Babishai2016 Poetry Festival, 24 to 26 August 2016 at Maria’s Place in Ntinda, opposite Froebel stage, near Victory City Church

• Call for Submissions: Beneath this Skin, Ake Review, deadline: 29 August 2016

  By Africa in Words on 21 August , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

      Aké Review Call for Submissions Beneath this Skin Deadline 29 August 2016 In anticipation of its 2016 edition, the Ake Arts and Book Festival is delighted to announce a call for entries for Ake Review, our annual journal…. Read More ›

• Rwandan hip-hop poet Eric 1Key: Entre 2

  By Africa in Words Guest on 18 August , 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the first in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kinyarwanda and French to English. We… Read More ›

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