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• Q&A: Juwairiyya Asmal-Lee interviews Ankara Press author Amina Thula

  By Africa in Words Guest on 11 February , 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest: Juwairiyya Asmal-Lee Amina Thula is the author of two Ankara Press novels: The Elevator Kiss, published in December 2014, and the forthcoming Love Next Door, which will be released on 14 February 2016. She talks here about her writing,… Read More ›

• CfP: Writing South Africa Now: a Colloquium, 16th-17th June 2016, Deadline 04 March 2016

  By Africa in Words on 10 February , 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Writing South Africa Now: a Colloquium, 16th-17th June, 2016 Call for Papers: Writing the South African City Deadline: 4th March, 2016 Hosted by LSE Cities, London School of Economics, in collaboration with the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge In… Read More ›

• Ẹ jẹ́ k’á sọ Yorùbá: Yoruba language resources online

  By Rebecca Jones on 8 February , 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  The online space offers important opportunities to develop resources for African-language documentation and learning, whether drawing on the power of apps and online games to make language learning fun, or on social media, online databases and crowdsourcing as tools to… Read More ›

• CfP: Music and the Arts of Africa and the Diaspora, 1-2 April 2016, New York, Deadline: 12 February 2016

  By Africa in Words on 7 February , 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  41st ANNUAL CONFERENCE of the NEW YORK AFRICAN(A) STUDIES ASSOCIATION at The City College (CUNY) and Columbia University 1-2 April 2016 CALL FOR PROPOSALS / ABSTRACTS FINAL DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS 12 February 2016   THEME: MUSIC AND THE ARTS OF… Read More ›

• Event: Red Africa, 4 February – 3 April 2016, London

  By Africa in Words on 3 February , 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Red Africa A season on the legacy of cultural relationships between Africa, the Soviet Union and related countries during the Cold War 4 February – 3 April 2016 Introduction to the Red Africa season Calvert 22 is pleased to announce… Read More ›

• Review: Bearing Heavy Things by Liyou Libsekal

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

  

  This month, Guest Reviewer Rehaana Manek continues our deep dive into the Eight New Generation African Poets. Libsekal writes as though she has witnessed. Witnessed violence, witnessed empathy, witnessed intimacy and has witnessed the bearing of heavy things. Chris Abani,… Read More ›

• Event: Art, Literature and Environmental Justice, 5 February 2016, London

  By Africa in Words on 31 January , 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  The role of arts in the fight for environmental justice in West Africa and beyond 5 February 2016, 18:30 – 20:00, British Library London Just over twenty years ago writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight Ogoni activists were executed… Read More ›

• Event: Bare Lit Festival, 26-27 February, London

  By Africa in Words on 27 January , 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Bare Lit Festival: a literary festival focused entirely on writers of colour to highlight the amazing work being produced by Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic writers. This February a new festival is set to change the UK literary landscape: Bare… Read More ›

• Q&A with ‘Imagine Africa 500’ authors Muthi Nhlema and Tiseke Chilima

  By Africa in Words Guest on 25 January , 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  AiW Guest Joanna Woods With the publication of Pan African Publisher’s new speculative fiction anthology, Imagine Africa 500, two featured writers from Malawi, Muthi Nhlema and Tiseke Chilima, join me for a short interview on their stories. At Kwaharaba Book… Read More ›

• CfP: The Performance of Pan-Africanism: From Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals, 20-22 October 2016, Florida, Deadline: 1 February 2016

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

  

  The Performance of Pan-Africanism: from Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals International Conference 20-22 October 2016 Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University Keynote speakers: Andrew Apter (UCLA), Cheryl Finley (Cornell University), Souleymane Bachir… Read More ›

• Review: ‘Do Not Go Gentle’

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

  

  AiW Guest: Danielle Faye Tran. “It is my wish […] that people should know I died of AIDS” (27) -from a letter written by character Zola to be read aloud at her vigil The spread of HIV creates a tense… Read More ›

• Event: Transcending the Past and Reimagining the Future of the South African University, 25 January 2016, London

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

  

  African Voices @ UCL Transcending the Past and Reimagining the Future of the South African University 25 January 2016, 6pm JZ Young Lecturer theatre (access direct from Gower Street), Gower Street, London In South Africa, student protests over the escalating… Read More ›

• Event: West African Literature and Thought in French: Translating Cultures, 22 January 2016, London

  By Africa in Words on 17 January , 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  West African Literature and Thought in French: Translating Cultures   Friday 22 January 2016, 10.30-17.00, British Library Conference Centre   Some of the most important contemporary writing in French has emerged from West Africa. This event brings together authors (leading… Read More ›

• CfP: Setting Forth At Dawn, Workshop on the Geopolitics and Practices of Writing and Publishing in Africa, 16 – 20 May 2016, Jimma, Ethiopia, Deadline: 25 January 2016

  By Africa in Words on 13 January , 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  Setting Forth At Dawn A Workshop on the Geopolitics and Practices of Writing and Publishing in Africa  16 – 20 May 2016 / 8 -12 Genbot 2008 Hosted by the College of Law & Governance in collaboration with the Office of the Vice… Read More ›

• A Curated New Generation: Review of ‘Eight New-Generation African Poets’

  By rashenka on 11 January , 2016 • ( 2 )

  

    First: these chapbooks are beautiful. Even on an e-reader, sapped of gravitas, Ibibio artist Imo Nse Imeh’s cover art adds a Chagall-ian layer of both modernism and ethnic nostalgia to this box set, to which Peter Akinlabi, Viola Allo,… Read More ›

• Event: Who I Am, Who We Are, Exhibition, 15 – 22 January 2016, Nairobi

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

  

  15 – 22 January 2016, Goethe Institute Nairobi Who I Am, Who We Are is an art project which examines the idea of Kenyan nationhood and how this is embodied through our sense of identity and our everyday interactions. The project… Read More ›

• Event: Words that Travel 2016, 23 January 2016, London

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

  

  23 January 2016 Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London Afrikult. presents the first of the three-part series Words that Travel. Running throughout 2016, each event focuses on particular mediums and traditions of African literature with the first featuring African… Read More ›

• Q&A: Uche Peter Umez interviews poet Efe Paul Azino

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

  

  AiW Guest: Uche Peter Umez   Widely regarded as one of Nigeria’s leading performance poets, Efe Paul Azino has been a headliner at many of the nation’s premier poetry venues. He is the Director of the Lagos International Poetry Festival,… Read More ›

• Africa in Words’ highlights of 2015

  By Africa in Words on 31 December , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Africa in Words has been taking a break over the holiday season, but we couldn’t resist taking a look back over the memorable year that has been 2015. Here, some of our Editors reflect on their highlights of 2015. We’d… Read More ›

• CfP: “Stories that float from afar”, Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 11 –15, 2016 – Deadline 1 February 2016

  By Africa in Words on 20 December , 2015 • ( 1 )

   “stories that float from afar” The idea of postcolonial culture: inclusions and exclusions The 17th Triennial ACLALS Conference Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 11 –15, 2016 – Deadline 1 February 2016 In a piece recorded in 1873, only fifty kilometres from… Read More ›

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