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• Review: Binders Full of Story-telling Women – Pede Hollist’s ‘So the Path Does Not Die’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 1 September , 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  By AiW Guest Rashi Rohatgi. So the Path Does Not Die (Jacaranda Press, 2014), the African Literature Association’s Book of the Year by Caine Prize 2013 shortlisted author Pede Hollist, promises to be an ‘issues’ book: its protagonist, Finaba, loses her… Read More ›

• Call for Papers and Fellowship opportunity: “Fela no go die o” at the African Literature Association Conference 2016

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

  

  From the Journal of African Cultural Studies Call For Papers: African Literature Association Conference April 6-9, 2016 Atlanta USA http://ala2016.com/ “Fela no go die o” Fela is not dead. The musical and artistic influences of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti are undisputed and extend… Read More ›

• Q&A: Masande Ntshanga

  By Nomonde Ntsepo on 28 August , 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  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 ›

• A Question of Power: Ben Okri’s “Meditations on Greatness” at Africa Writes

  By Africa in Words Guest on 24 August , 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  AiW Guest Réhab Abdelghany I first saw Ben Okri in a photograph that the Africa Centre had sent me back in 2000 to accompany an interview with the first Caine Prize winner, Leila Aboulela, which I published later in Egypt. In… Read More ›

• Call for Papers and Panels: African Literature Association conference 2016

  By Africa in Words on 23 August , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Emory University and Kennesaw State University cordially invite you to submit your proposals for seminars, roundtables, and panels at the African Literature Association 2016 Conference, “Justice and Human Dignity in Africa and the African Diaspora.” We encourage you to share… Read More ›

• Q&A: F.T. Kola

  By Nomonde Ntsepo on 20 August , 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Recognising the critical debate that has surrounded it this year and in the past, AiW has followed the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing by Blogging the Caine Prize again this year. Acknowledging the wider conversation, new and regular authors have shared… Read More ›

• Acts of mutiny: the Caine Prize and ‘African Literature’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 August , 2015 • ( 12 )

  

  By AiW Guest Ranka Primorac. In London, a three-day literary festival called Africa Writes took place recently at the British Library (BL). The festival is now in its fourth year, it hosts an ever-widening stream of writers, readers and publishers,… Read More ›

• Saraba Manuscript Project

  By Africa in Words on 12 August , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Saraba Magazine is announcing a call for submissions for the Saraba Manuscript Project. Saraba Magazine, Nigeria’s preeminent literary magazine based out of Lagos, has been championing the work of emerging writers from Nigeria and the rest of Africa since 2009…. Read More ›

• African Multilingualism Conference: Motivations, modalities, movement and meaning

  By Africa in Words on 9 August , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  BRITISH ACADEMY CONFERENCE African Multilingualism: Motivations, modalities, movement and meaning Tuesday 8 & Wednesday 9 September 2015, 9.30am – 5.00pm Venue: The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG Convenors: Professor Friederike Lüpke, SOAS, University of London, and… Read More ›

• Call for Articles: African Literature Today

  By Africa in Words on 5 August , 2015 • ( 5 )

  Call for Articles: African Literature Today Special Issue ‘African Returns in African Fiction’ This special issue will focus on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her ‘original’ or ancestral ‘home’ in Africa from other parts of… Read More ›

• Review: Reneilwe Malatji’s ‘Love Interrupted’ (Modjaji, 2012)

  By Nomonde Ntsepo on 3 August , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Reading Reneilwe Malatji’s Love Interrupted in the build up to women’s month in South Africa this August places the text’s significance in particular focus. Marie Claire’s #MCInHer Shoes campaign against gender based violence put male celebrities in high heels in… Read More ›

• Re-issue of archival volumes of African Literature Today 1-14

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

  

  Founded in 1968 by Heinemann Publishers, London, African Literature Today is the oldest international journal of African Literature. James Currey have now re-issued archival volumes ALT 1-14 making the complete series available and providing the historical perspective of these early contributions to… Read More ›

• Review: Nadia Davids’ ‘An Imperfect Blessing’ (Umuzi, 2014)

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 July , 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest: Ed Charlton. In the same way as the vicissitudes of the weather—sudden hailstorms, raucous gales, sweltering humidity—often mark our experience of a place more vividly than any of the customary variations in climate, it is the petty familial… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: ‘African Film and Social Change’ conference, University of Westminster, 7-8 November 2015

  By Africa in Words on 26 July , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Conference organised by the Africa Media Centre, University of Westminster African film and related screen cultures have grown rapidly across the continent and are increasingly implicated in both directed and non-directed social change. Surprisingly, film’s significant role in social change… Read More ›

• Call for Submissions: Voices – an anthology of contemporary art and literature

  By Africa in Words on 22 July , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  From Voices Anthology. Voices is an anthology of contemporary art and literature interested in exploring every single place that makes up our world. It is a curious work, determined to reveal places and the lives they consist. The world is… Read More ›

• Q&A with Malawian Writer Ekari Mbvundula

  By Africa in Words Guest on 21 July , 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest Joanna Woods Living in Blantyre, Malawi, Ekari Mbvundula is a budding freelance writer whose talent is one to watch. Her work crosses literary genres, but she has a keen interest in science fiction. Her story ‘Montague’s Last’ has… Read More ›

• CFP: DirtPol One-Day Workshop – Mediating Waste: Media and the Management of Waste in Lagos

  By Africa in Words on 19 July , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Call for papers Mediating Waste: Media and the Management of Waste in Lagos A One-Day Workshop on Weds 16th March 2016 at the University of Lagos At the centre of this interdisciplinary workshop is the idea that there are fruitful… Read More ›

• Babishai Niwe Poetry Festival, 26 – 28 August 2015

  By Africa in Words on 15 July , 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Babishai Poetry Festival 26 – 28 August 2015 The Uganda Museum, Kampala This year, we are honoured to host world-wide leading voices in poetry and to share the landscape with impressive and mind-blowing talent across Uganda. Babishai Poetry Festival, organized… Read More ›

• 36th Durban International Film Festival: July 16 – 25, 2015

  By Africa in Words on 12 July , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Durban International Film Festival July 16 -25, 2015 Venues across Durban, SA Africa’s premier film event, the Durban International Film Festival, which is hosted by the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts, presents its 36th edition from 16 to… Read More ›

• Q&A: S.J. Naudé in conversation with Carli Coetzee

  By Africa in Words Guest on 9 July , 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  By AiW Guests: S.J. Naudé and Carli Coetzee. AiW note: S.J. Naudé was born in South Africa and studied at Cambridge University and Columbia University. After practising law in New York and London for many years, he returned to South Africa for… Read More ›

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