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• Event: Teju Cole: Black on All Sides, 22 March 2016, London

  By Africa in Words on 16 March , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Teju Cole: Black on All Sides 22 March 2016 19:00-21:30 Logan Hall, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL Decolonising Our Minds are pleased to welcome Teju Cole, world-renowned writer, art historian and photographer, for a talk at… Read More ›

• Call for applications: Editorial Assistant for Africa in Words

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

  

  Africa in Words (www.africainwords.com) is looking for a volunteer to join our team as Editorial Assistant. We have an average of 6500 readers each month from over 100 countries, with our largest readerships based in the UK, US, South Africa and… Read More ›

• CfP: FEMRITE@20 – Rethinking African Literature Conference, 28-30 July 2016, Kampala, Deadline: 30 March 2016

  By Africa in Words on 13 March , 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  FEMRITE@20 – Rethinking African Literature 28th-30th July 2016 School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30th March 2016 FEMRITE – Uganda Women Writers Association invites abstracts for 15 – 20 minute presentations… Read More ›

• Future Visions: Five Breakout Talents in African Film Today

  By Africa in Words Guest on 10 March , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Sarah Jilani Returning to screens across London this past November, the Royal African Society’s annual Film Africa festival celebrated and promoted filmmaking from various countries across the continent. In a colourful week of reunions, fresh faces and thought-provoking… Read More ›

• Event: Africa Salon 2016, 28 March – 3 April 2016, New Haven

  By Africa in Words on 9 March , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  YALE UNIVERSITY’S SECOND ANNUAL AFRICA SALON BRINGS NAME ARTISTS, VIBRANT PERFORMANCES, UNIQUE PROJECTS TO NEW HAVEN Festival offers week-long celebration of contemporary African arts and culture 28 March – 3 April 2016 New Haven The second annual AFRICA SALON, Yale… Read More ›

• Memory and the Cartography of Dismembered Parts: A Review of Peter Akinlabi’s A Pagan Place

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

  

  AiW Guest: Iquo DianaAbasi Eke. This month, AiW Guest, poet Iquo DianaAbasi Eke, continues our deep dive in The Eight New Generation African Poets with her review of Peter Akinlabi’s A Pagan Place. In this collection, Akinlabi comes across as an… Read More ›

• Event: Picasso and Modern Africa 1945–73 (Red Africa season) Talk, 17 March 2016, London

  By Africa in Words on 6 March , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Talk: Picasso and Modern Africa 1945–73 (Red Africa season) Thursday 17 March 2016 6:30pm — 8:00pm Calvert 22 | 22 Calvert Avenue | London E2 7JP Hear leading Picasso scholar Lynda Morris as she reveals the artist’s surprising historical engagement… Read More ›

• Review: Ivan Vladislavić’s 101 Detectives

  By Thando Njovane on 3 March , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Thando Njovane. As demonstrated by his substantial and sophisticated body of work, South Africa’s Ivan Vladislavić is certainly one of the most remarkable and versatile writers of our time. Vladislavić’s latest gift to letters is the insightful, elaborate,… Read More ›

• Event: The Academic Book in the South, 7-8 March 2016, London

  By Africa in Words on 2 March , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  The Academic Book in the South 7th – 8th March 2016, 9.30pm – 5.30pm, Conference Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB This two day conference discusses how profound changes in publishing will affect the Academic Book of… Read More ›

• Home is now; home is never, now you see it, now you don’t: A Review of ‘From Home and Exile’ by Joanna Woods

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

  

  AiW Guest Shadreck Chikoti A few months ago we laid to rest Professor Steve Chimombo, one of the leading writers from Malawi, a man of exceptional talent, unwavering in his passion for the arts. His legendary life has been chronicled… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: The African Literary Hustle, New Orleans Review, Deadline: 31 December 2016

  By Africa in Words on 28 February , 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  * The African Literary Hustle* Guest Editors: Mukoma wa Ngugi and Laura Murphy When African literature is published in the West, it is too often realist, in English, and always in the spirit of Chinua Achebe. But romance, science fiction, fantasy, epic, experimental… Read More ›

• Souffles turns 50: Remembering the “Breath” of Moroccan Francophone Literature

  By Africa in Words Guest on 26 February , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Khalid Lyamlahy Khalid Lyamlahy recalls the role played by Moroccan review Souffles in initiating a new cultural movement in 1960s Morocco. This is part of our joint series with the LSE Africa blog: Reflections on African Literature taking place… Read More ›

• Review: Kholofelo Maenetsha’s ‘To the Black Women We All Knew’

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

  

  AiW Guest: Helen Cousins. What a bittersweet eulogy this is to the suffering of Black women at the hands (and often the fists) of Black men; not always surviving, as indicated by the past tense of the title. The novel… Read More ›

• CfP: Asixoxe – Let’s Talk! SOAS Conference on African Philosophy, 28-29 April 2016, London, Deadline 1 April 2016

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

  

  Call for Papers Asixoxe – Let’s Talk! SOAS Conference on African Philosophy 28th-29th April 2016, Russell Square Campus, SOAS, University of London The annual Asixoxe – Let’s Talk! African Philosophy conference has, since its establishment in 2014, been a steady… Read More ›

• Of Lagos, startups, cigarettes and prostitutes: a Nigerian writer unveils his literary inspiration

  By Africa in Words Guest on 22 February , 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest: Leye Adenle Leye Adenle discusses how an encounter with a sex worker led to him giving her the central role in his first feature-length novel. This is part of our joint series with the LSE Africa blog: Reflections on… Read More ›

• Event: Imagining African Futures, LSE Africa Talks, 24 February 2016, London

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

  

  Imagining African Futures LSE Africa Talks Literary Festival discussion Wednesday 24 February 2016, 6.30-8pm NAB 2.04, New Academic Building Speakers: Leye Adenle, Jennifer Makumbi, Chibundu Onuzo Chair: Rebecca Jones, editor of Africa in Words Western media reports that ‘Africa is Rising’… Read More ›

• I Am Not Done with African Immigrant Literature

  By Africa in Words Guest on 18 February , 2016 • ( 13 )

  

  AiW Guest Shadreck Chikoti I get afraid, very afraid, when somebody, anybody, prescribes to me which books to read and not to read. When somebody gives me a template of what African literature ought to look like. And boy! You… Read More ›

• CfP: The Verbal Text & National Literary Historiography, 10-12 November 2016, London, Deadline 01 April 2016

  By Africa in Words on 17 February , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  The Verbal Text & National Literary Historiography An Interdisciplinary Conference 10-12 November 2016 Queen Mary University of London Call for Papers Deadline for proposals: 1 April 2016 Sustained attention to the place of the verbal text in national literary historiographies… Read More ›

• Reading Lessons: The Chronic (“New Cartographies,” March 2015)

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

  

  AiW Guest: Ed Charlton. When it comes to alliances and accords, Africa is full of them. Whether it is bilateral extradition treaties, regional trade agreements, or the pan-continental constitution of the African Union, there are everywhere traces of the extranational… Read More ›

• Event/CfP: Celebrating Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino at 50, Kampala, 18 March 2016,

  By Miriam Pahl on 14 February , 2016 • ( 2 )

  

    Celebrating Okot p’Bitek’s  Song of Lawino at 50 18 March 2016 Makerere University, Kampala The Department of Literature, Makerere University is organising a one-day symposium, scheduled for 18 March, 2016, to celebrate the fifty years of the publication of… Read More ›

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