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• Event: Imperial Exile, Lecture and Book Launch, 20 August 2016, London

  By Africa in Words on 17 August , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Lecture and Book Launch Imperial Exile 20 August 2016, 1.30 – 5.00 pm Venue: Ethiopian Community In Britain – 2A Lithos Road, London, NW3 6EF, United Kingdom This year is the 80th anniversary of the arrival in Bath of Emperor Haile… Read More ›

• CfP: Student movements and (post-)colonial emancipations, 9 December 2016, Paris, Deadline: 20 September 2016

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  Call for Papers Student movements and (post-)colonial emancipations : transnational itineraries, dialogues and programmes 9 December 2016, Université Paris Diderot Deadline for abstracts: 20 September 2016   This one-day conference investigates the role of student movements in individual and collective emancipations, from… Read More ›

• A Review of Inua Ellams’ The Wire-Headed Heathen

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 11 August , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Jason Allen This month, Jason Allen continues our deep dive into Eight New Generation African Poets with a review of Inua Ellams’ The Wire-Headed Heathen. This is the third chapbook by Nigerian-British performance poet Inua Ellams. The poems display his… Read More ›

• Event: Lagos: Sustaining the Future of Creativity Symposium, 11 August 2016, London

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  Lagos: Sustaining the Future of Creativity August 2016 Symposium Sharing ideas from across the UK and Nigeria to help sustain creative practice into the future. Date: Thursday 11th August Time: 1pm – 6pm Location: The Africa Centre, 66 Great Suffolk… Read More ›

• CfP: Literature and Postcolonial Capitalism, ARIEL, Deadline: 1 October 2016

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    Call for Papers Literature and Postcolonial Capitalism ARIEL Special Issue Deadline 1 October 2016   This special issue explores the relationship between literary representation and contemporary, postcolonial capitalism. We suspect that many of today’s “new” capitalist formations emerge from… Read More ›

• Wotsits and Palm Wine: A Review of Irenosen Okojie’s Butterfly Fish

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 4 August , 2016 • ( 16 )

  

  AiW Guest: Anthea Gordon Butterfly Fish (Jacaranda, 2015) is primarily a story about Joy, a London-based photographer whose only friend is her eccentric elderly neighbour, Mrs. Harris. Then Joy’s mother dies unexpectedly, leaving her a bemusing inheritance, which includes Joy’s grandfather’s diary and a sculpture of a… Read More ›

• Call for Nominations: African Literature Association (ALA) Awards Announcement 2017, Deadline: 1 September 2016

  By Africa in Words on 3 August , 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  The African Literature Association is currently accepting nominations for the following awards. Please note the deadlines and the specified individual to whom and all nominations and materials should be addressed. The awards will be presented at the ALA 43rd Annual… Read More ›

• Event: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Love and War, 7 August 2016, London

  By Africa in Words on 31 July , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Sunday 7 August 2016 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Love and War ‘Half a Yellow Sun’ Ten Years On Royal Festival Hall, London Reflect on the challenges of keeping love alive in times of war with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Adichie –… Read More ›

• The Aftermath of War: A Review of the Film Ezra

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 28 July , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Dare Dan Newton Aduaka’s Ezra treads a path familiar to Africa’s cinema and literature: the tragedy of child soldiers and of childhoods broken by war. So what’s new?, I hear you ask. Produced in 2007, Ezra, which precedes Beasts of… Read More ›

• Call for Book Chapters: Cultural Archives of Atrocity, Deadline for Abstracts: 21st August 2016

  By Africa in Words on 27 July , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Call for Book Chapters CULTURAL ARCHIVES OF ATROCITY: ESSAYS ON THE PROTEST TRADITION IN KENYAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY New deadline for abstract submission: 21st August 2016 INTRODUCTION In Kenya, studies on atrocity have taken different discursive dimensions from history, political… Read More ›

• An Interview with Prof. Ernest Nneji Emenyonu on Pita Nwana’s Omenuko

  By Africa in Words Guest on 26 July , 2016 • ( 8 )

  

    AiW Guest: Kalapi Sen It is a truism in today’s world that ‘African literature’ covers a major portion of literary scholarship, included now on high-school syllabi as well as at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. And one name that has… Read More ›

• Call for Proposals: Special Issue on Niyi Osundare and Poetry in Nigeria, deadline: 31 August 2016

  By Africa in Words on 24 July , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  CALL FOR SPECIAL ISSUE PROPOSALS  At the Crossroads of Art and Society: Niyi Osundare and Poetry in Nigeria The seventieth birthday of Nigerian poet and professor of comparative literature, Niyi Osundare, invites deeper reflection on the poet-scholar’s life and contributions… Read More ›

• A Journey of Self-Discovery and Love: A Review of Frances Mensah Williams’ From Pasta to Pigfoot

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 21 July , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

    AiW Guest: Jovia Salifu In From Pasta to Pigfoot, Frances Mensah Williams tells a beautiful story of cultural education, self-identity, and love. It is a story of a young black woman whose quest for knowledge about her culture and identity… Read More ›

• Call for Artists and Writers: “Wild” by Artascent, Deadline 31 August 2016

  By Africa in Words on 20 July , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  “WILD” International Call for Artists and Writers by Artascent Deadline 31 August 2016 Theme:  The untamed, free and undeveloped. The turbulent, unrestrained, emotional and extreme. Animals, people and places that are wild. It can be expressed in symbolic, literal, modern, traditional,… Read More ›

• Event: Teju Cole presents Known and Strange Things, 9 August 2016, New York

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  Book Launch: Teju Cole presents Known and Strange Things In conversation with Amitava Kumar St. Joseph’s College Brooklyn, NY Tuesday, August 9, 7:30 PM Tickets $20.00 (includes event admission and a book) Since the publication and critical success of both… Read More ›

• Call for Applications / Appel à candidature: Arts Management and Literary Entrepreneurship Workshop, 4th Annual Writivism Festival, 22-25 August 2016, Kampala, Deadline 29 July 2016

  By Africa in Words on 15 July , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR 3 DAYS to midnight (GMT+1) Friday 29 July 2016 Call for Applications / Appel à candidature: Arts Management and Literary Entrepreneurship Workshop at the 4th Annual Writivism Festival 22-25 August 2016 Kampala, Uganda Have you set up or… Read More ›

• Review: The Mirror and Nine Other Stories by Susan Nkwentie Nde

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 14 July , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

   Heather Snell continues our summer voyage into children’s literature. AiW Guest: Heather Snell The Mirror and Nine Other Stories is a product of Langaa, a press with offices in Bamenda and Buea. As Langaa indicates on their website, access to… Read More ›

• CfP: African and Diasporic Women’s Literature: Transitions, Transformations and Transnationalism, WAGADU Special Issue, Deadline 27 September 2016

  By Africa in Words on 13 July , 2016 • ( 1 )

  CFP:  African and Diasporic Women’s Literature: Transitions, Transformations and Transnationalism WAGADU special issue Deadline for abstracts: 27 September 2016 With the new wave of African and African Diasporic women writers, the transnational sphere has enlarged to encompass voices that were… Read More ›

• CfP: Trespassing the Borders: Redefining Postcolonialism from Peripheral Experiences, 11 March 2017, Warwick, Deadline 30 Sept 2016

  By Africa in Words on 10 July , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Trespassing the Borders: Redefining Postcolonialism from Peripheral Experiences University of Warwick – 11 March 2017 Keynote speakers: Professor Gurminder Bhambra (Warwick/Linnaeus) Professor Lucy Riall (EUI/Birkbeck College) Postcolonialism, conceived of as a critique of colonial empires in their political, social, and… Read More ›

• Call for Sessions: Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe Conference, 6-8 July 2017, Tampere, Finland

  By Africa in Words on 6 July , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  1st Call for Sessions Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe Sixth biennial network conference University of Tampere, Finland 6 – 8 July 2017 African European Studies and Black European Studies explore social spaces and cultural practices that are characterised… Read More ›

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