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• Les Blancs – Farber’s production provoked reflection on innocence, the personal and the political, and choosing sides

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

  

  AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin The National Theatre’s production of Lorraine Hansberry’s play, Les Blancs, directed by Yaël Farber, involved phenomenal use of sound, music and lighting, live fire on stage, and a nuanced mastery of the smallest details: from the… Read More ›

• Event/CfP: 1st World Festival of Negro Arts: Past and Present (1966-2016), 8-10 November 2016, Dakar, Deadline: 30 August 2016

  By Africa in Words on 3 July , 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  1st World Festival of Negro Arts: Past and Present(1966-2016), 8-10 November 2016, Dakar FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1ST WORLD FESTIVAL OF NEGRO ARTS I – ARGUMENTS At the invitation of Poet President Leopold Sedar Senghor, from 1 to 24 April 1966,… Read More ›

• Do African Literary Festivals Culture (?): Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire on the Writivism Experience

  By bwesigye on 2 July , 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire was formerly Programs Director at Writivism Festival. This piece, reflecting on his experience of Writivism, was adapted from a presentation he made at the 5th Annual African Popular Cultures Workshop at Sussex University on 19 April 2016.  The… Read More ›

• A Space of One’s Own – A summary of a conversation between the 2016 Caine Prize shortlisted writers

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

  

  AiW Guest: Katarzyna Kubin With only days left before the winner of the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing is announced on 4th July, the five short-listed writers have been on a whirlwind circuit of public events throughout London, from a… Read More ›

• 2016 Caine Prize Shortlist: Review of Bongani Kona’s “At Your Requiem.”

  By Africa in Words on 30 June , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s Caine Prize season again! Before the judges’ announcement on 4th July, we’re taking a look at each of the shortlisted stories. This week, Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva reviews Bongani Kona’s “At Your Requiem.” AiW Guest: Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva Bongani Kona’s story, “At Your Requiem,” is one of the most… Read More ›

• CfP: Lagos – From the Pepperfarm to the Megacity (and Beyond), 15-17 June 2017, Lagos, Deadline: 30 Oct 2016

  By Africa in Words on 29 June , 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  LAGOS: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Space, Society, and the Imagination of an African Crossroads LAGOS: From the Pepperfarm to the Megacity (and Beyond) An Interdisciplinary Conference on Space, Society, and the Imagination of an African Crossroads Faculty of Arts University… Read More ›

• 2016 Caine Prize Shortlist: A Review of Tope Folarin’s “Genesis”

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 28 June , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  It’s Caine Prize season again! Before the judges’ announcement on 4th July, we’re taking a look at each of the shortlisted stories. This week, Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva reviews Tope Folarin’s “Genesis.” AiW Guest: Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva Tope Folarin takes us to dizzying spiritual and emotional heights, telling his story… Read More ›

• Review: Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun by Sarah Ladipo Manyika  

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 June , 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  AiW Author Sarah Jilani With her faithful old Porsche Buttercup, her toe-rings and her zest for life, Dr. Morayo Da Silva is a cosmopolitan Nigerian woman whose 75th birthday is just around the corner. A retired English professor, her love… Read More ›

• ‘(Re)Viewing the Visual: Art, Photography, Film’ – Reflections on the 5th African Popular Cultures Workshop at the University of Sussex, 19 April 2016

  By mattlecznar on 27 June , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Aiw Guest: Matthew Lecznar Now in its fifth year, the University of Sussex’s African Popular Cultures Workshop creates a lively space where practitioners, researchers and enthusiasts alike come together to consider and celebrate aspects of cultural production in Africa and… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Wasafiri New Writing Prize, Deadline 15 July 2016

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

  

  The 2016 Wasafiri New Writing Prize is now open! Submissions are welcome in three categories: Poetry, Fiction and Life Writing. Ensure that you submit your entry/entries by the deadline: 5pm BST on 15 July 2016. Winners will receive £300 and… Read More ›

• Caine Prize 2016: “Memories We Lost”—The Text, Its Readers and the World, a review by Pede Hollist

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

  

  AiW Guest Pede Hollist The biography at the end of “Memories We Lost” quotes South African writer, filmmaker, and photographer Lidudumalingani as saying, “I am fascinated by mental illnesses, having seen my own extended relatives deal with it.” He also… Read More ›

• Broken Men Who Never Heal: A Review of Bongani Kona’s “At Your Requiem”

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 23 June , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Iquo DianaAbasi “I rewind time to conjure you back to life.” The above words on the opening page strike a note of foreboding and thus set the tone and pace for the story. Indeed the whole tale rests on this conjuring back to life through… Read More ›

• CfP: Struggles for Liberation in Contemporary Southern African Literatures and Cultural Spaces, Durban, Deadline: 1st July 2016

  By Africa in Words on 22 June , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Call for Papers Struggles for Liberation in Contemporary Southern African Literatures and Cultural Spaces Symposium at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa 10-11 November 2016 Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Achille Mbembe Authors: Mandla Langa and Niq Mhlongo The year 2015… Read More ›

• 2016 Caine Prize Shortlist: Review of Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky.”

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 21 June , 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  It’s Caine Prize season again! Before the judges’ announcement on 4th July, we’re taking a look at each of the shortlisted stories. This week, Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva reviews Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky.” AiW Guest: Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva The opening line is… Read More ›

• Event: Jeremy Corbyn and Ben Okri, 15 July 2016, London

  By Africa in Words on 19 June , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Jeremy Corbyn and Ben Okri In Conversation Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London 15 July 2o16 Poetry and politics meet in a conversation between Ben Okri and Jeremy Corbyn. On 12 September 2015 Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of… Read More ›

• What do children read?: A Review of ALT 33 Children’s Literature and Story-telling

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 16 June , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Following AiW’s Q&A with Professor Emenyonu last week, and to kick-off our summer review series on African children’s literature, Tamara Moellenberg reviews ALT 33: Children’s Literature and Story-telling. AiW Guest: Tamara Moellenberg Children’s Literature and Story-telling, the latest issue of African Literature Today, brings much-needed attention to… Read More ›

• Exhibition: Three Photographers/Six Cities, 30 April – 25 September 2016, Philadelphia

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

  

  Three Photographers/Six Cities April 30, 2016 – September 25, 2016 Philadelphia Museum of Art   Experience six African cities through the work of three extraordinary photographers. This exhibition offers an in-depth look at three photographers who create powerful pictures of… Read More ›

• The Truth outside Context: Jumoke Verissimo reviews Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday

  By Africa in Words Guest on 13 June , 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  This review of Elnathan John’s Born on a Tuesday is the first in a series of reviews of books published by Cassava Republic Press that we’ll be running over coming weeks to celebrate the launch of Cassava Republic in the UK.  AiW… Read More ›

• Event: #ApartheidMustFall to #RhodesMustFall?: The Soweto Uprising of 16 June 1976, 16 June 2016, London

  By Africa in Words on 12 June , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Remember Soweto Thursday, 16 June 2016 at 17:00, London, United Kingdom By: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Institute of Education, University of London, Southern Africa Seminar Studies On 16th June 1976, peaceful student protest at Afrikaans language education in the Soweto… Read More ›

• It’s Not Easy Being Green: A Review of Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Green Lion

  By AFRICA IN WORDS GUEST on 9 June , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Graham Riach Henrietta Rose-Innes’s latest novel opens with drifter Constantine on his way to retrieve the belongings of his childhood friend and one-time crush, zookeeper Mark Carolissen. Mark lies bandaged in hospital after a mauling by a rare black-maned… Read More ›

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