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• Call for Papers: ‘The Battle of Algiers at 50: Legacies in Film and Literature’, deadline 15 Jan 2016

  By Africa in Words on 4 November , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Date TBC May 2016 University of Sheffield, Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS)   ‘The Battle of Algiers at 50: Legacies in Film and Literature’ is a one-day symposium organised by postgraduate students from the University of Leeds and Sheffield… Read More ›

• Review: Lara Pawson’s ‘In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Massacre’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 2 November , 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: John Spall. English language books on Angola aren’t published very often, or indeed, many books at all written by non-Angolans. Despite Angola’s civil war ending over 13 years ago, comparatively few researchers visit Angola due to the various… Read More ›

• CFP: African Travel Writing Encounters, University of Birmingham 9 March 2016, deadline 15 December 2015

  By Africa in Words on 1 November , 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  AFRICAN TRAVEL WRITING ENCOUNTERS Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham Wednesday 9 March, 2016 This workshop invites scholars of travel writing by Africans, along with practitioners of travel writing, to come together to discuss the past, present… Read More ›

• Event: Babishai Poetry on the Mountain, 10-13 June 2016

  By Africa in Words on 28 October , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Don’t you want to write a poem that doesn’t end? To climb a mountain that will climb along with you? Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation, together with Uganda Travel Bureau, wants to take you on a poetry journey that will never… Read More ›

• At Prestigious Yale Literary Festival, Africanness Affirmed: Ifeanyi Awachie on the Windham Campbell Festival

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 October , 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Ifeanyi Awachie As a Nigerian-American undergraduate at Yale, I was both impressed by my university’s grandeur and accustomed not to expect the institution’s most illustrious visitors or highly touted programs to reflect my race or cultural identity. The… Read More ›

• Event: West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song, at the British Library, 16 October 2015-16 February 2016

  By Africa in Words on 21 October , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  A major exhibition at the British Library from 16 October 2015 – 16 February 2016 Celebrating the cultural dynamism of West Africa, from early symbolic scripts and illuminated manuscripts, to the writings of Wole Soyinka and the music of Afrobeat… Read More ›

• Event: Billy Kahora in conversation with Nikesh Shukla, University of Bristol, 22 October 2015

  By Africa in Words on 17 October , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Billy Kahora in conversation with Nikesh Shukla 22 October 2015, 17:30 University of Bristol, 21 Woodland Road, LR8 FREE Join us for an exciting evening with Billy Kahora, award-winning author, screenwriter and publisher, as he speaks in conversation with acclaimed Bristol-based… Read More ›

• Event: Cambridge African Film Festival, Cambridge (UK), 16-24 October 2015

  By Africa in Words on 11 October , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The Cambridge African Film Festival (CAFF) is very proud to be celebrating its 14th edition from 16 to 24 October 2015. We are honoured to have become an important part of the cultural agenda in the city of Cambridge, and… Read More ›

• Event: Lagos International Poetry Festival, 28 October – 1 November 2015

  By Africa in Words on 7 October , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  In the last two decades poetry, particularly of the performance variant, has been experiencing a resurgence across the African continent. Urban city centres from Lagos to Nairobi to Joburg are dotted with bars converted to open mic venues, where enthusiasts… Read More ›

• Event: Film Africa, London 30 October – 8 November 2015

  By Africa in Words on 4 October , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Film Africa 2015 London 30 October – 8 November 2015 The programme for Film Africa 2015 is now out! Running in cinemas and other venues across London from 30 October-8 November, the festival will show over 60 films from 26 African countries…. Read More ›

• Call for Papers: Art and Ideology in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Fiction

  By Africa in Words on 30 September , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  “Art and Ideology in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Fiction – -A Classic Anthology” Edited by:  Ernest N. Emenyonu, Iniobong I. Uko, & Patricia T. Emenyonu   Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie… Read More ›

• Losing my Head Because: Ben Okri’s Meditations on Greatness

  By Africa in Words Guest on 28 September , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire I thought that Ben Okri’s December 2014 infamous Guardian essay in which he berated African and black writers for suffering under a mental tyranny of subject was too prescriptive and an inaccurate reading of contemporary African… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: ‘Boredom’, at the African Literature Association Conference, April 2016

  By Africa in Words on 20 September , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  From the Journal of African Cultural Studies African Literature Association Conference Atlanta, USA April 6-9, 2016 http://africanlit.org/annual-conference/upcoming-conference/ “Boredom” Panel organizers: Carli Coetzee and Ato Quayson In a public lecture titled “Being African in the World” delivered in Johannesburg, South Africa,… Read More ›

• Review: Lusaka Punk and Other Stories – the Caine Prize Anthology 2015

  By Africa in Words Guest on 18 September , 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  AiW Guest: Madhu Krishnan In the just sixteen years that it has existed, the Caine Prize for African Writing has made an indelible mark, if not on African literature itself, then certainly on the critical discourses which surround it. With… Read More ›

• Facing Forward: Africa Utopia, Review

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 September , 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest Steve Haines Sunday’s panel session Facing Forward was introduced by the chair, festival curator Hannah Pool, as bringing together the many strands of Africa Utopia and giving an opportunity for speakers from diverse disciplines to reflect on the… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: Comparative Literature and Globalisation Today, Birmingham UK, 24 October 2015

  By Africa in Words on 13 September , 2015 • ( 0 )

  From the Northern Comparative Literature Network Comparative Literature and Globalisation Today Inaugural Seminar of The Northern Comparative Literature Network Saturday 24 October 2015, Birmingham City University Globalization, and the various nationalist, religious and cultural resistances to it, might be said… Read More ›

• Q&A: Pede Hollist

  By Rebecca Jones on 11 September , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Posted in the run up to our review of the Caine Prize 2015 anthology Lusaka Punk and Other Stories, as part of a follow up series to our 2015 Blogging the Caine Prize – open to the ongoing public conversation the prize, and… Read More ›

• Africa Utopia, Southbank Centre, London, 10-13 September 2015

  By Africa in Words on 9 September , 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Southbank Centre, London 10-13 September 2015 Africa Utopia is back for a third year celebrating the arts and culture of one of the world’s most dynamic and fast-changing continents. The festival looks at how Africa can lead the way in… Read More ›

• Crossing Borders to Find Home – new non-fiction by Pede Hollist

  By Africa in Words Guest on 7 September , 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  By AiW Guest: Pede Hollist AiW note: Pede Hollist is the author of the novel So the Path Does Not Die (recently reviewed by Rashi Rohatgi for AiW) and the Caine Prize shortlisted story ‘Foreign Aid‘. Speaking at the Africa Writes festival… Read More ›

• Q&A: Namwali Serpell

  By Lilly Kroll on 4 September , 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Shortly before Namwali Serpell became the sixteenth winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, I had the chance to ask her a couple of questions about reading her winning story ‘The Sack’ and its many modes of uncertainty. This Q&A forms part… Read More ›

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