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• Sequins, Self & Struggle: Performing and Archiving Sex, Place and Class in Cape Town Pageants (Southbank Centre, 17-19 July)

  By Africa in Words on 8 July , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Reposted from the London Southern African Studies Network We are delighted to announce that the final symposium for the AHRC-funded project, ‘Sequins, Self & Struggle: Performing and Archiving Sex, Place and Class in Cape Town Pageants’, has moved to the… Read More ›

• Review: SJ Naudé, ‘The Alphabet of Birds’.

  By Africa in Words Guest on 6 July , 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  By AiW Guest: Carli Coetzee. AiW note: this review is accompanied by a Q&A between Carli Coetzee and S J Naudé here. S J Naudé’s collection of short stories appeared in an Afrikaans language version (Alfabet van die Voëls, Umuzi) in 2011,… Read More ›

• Blogging the Caine Prize: Elnathan John’s ‘Flying’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 2 July , 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  AiW Guest Madhu Krishnan Elnathan John’s ‘Flying’ opens with a dream and ends with a limping chicken. If that sentence sounds incongruous, it, like the story itself, is deliberately so. Throughout its course, ‘Flying’ – at only just over 4200… Read More ›

• No Ordinary House: a review of E.C. Osondu’s ‘This House is Not For Sale’

  By Rebecca Jones on 30 June , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  ‘— That house is no ordinary house. Ordinary house, indeed — […] — People say that at night you could hear voices and sometimes cries emanating from that house. Even though no one lives there anymore. — It casts a… Read More ›

• Blogging the Caine Prize: Segun Afolabi’s ‘The Folded Leaf’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 26 June , 2015 • ( 8 )

  

  AiW Guest: John Uwa In reviewing Segun Afolabi’s ‘The Folded Leaf’, a short story shortlisted for Caine Prize 2015, one must resist the temptation to mounting up praises on the text. It is certainly a well-articulated and thematically focused text; and… Read More ›

• Africa Writes, 3 – 5 July 2015, British Library

  By Africa in Words on 24 June , 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Africa Writes – the Royal African Society’s annual literature and book festival promoting contemporary African writing – returns to The British Library. Africa Writes 2015 will bring together over 70 authors, poets, publishers, critics and experts for an exciting three-day programme, including… Read More ›

• Q&A with author and Africa Writes guest Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

  By Emma Shercliff on 18 June , 2015 • ( 9 )

  

  In advance of Africa Writes 2015, festival guest Abubakar Adam Ibrahim talks to AiW author Emma Shercliff about love, romance and the gendered nature of reading and writing in Northern Nigeria. Abubakar Adam Ibrahim will appear in two events during… Read More ›

• Blogging the Caine Prize: Namwali Serpell’s ‘The Sack’

  By Lilly Kroll on 18 June , 2015 • ( 9 )

  

  I am leaning toward a prediction that Namwali Serpell will be the winner of this year’s Caine Prize for a number of reasons. For starters, a win for Serpell would go some way to deflecting one of the major criticisms… Read More ›

• The View From Here, Tiwani Contemporary Gallery

  By Africa in Words on 16 June , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Group Exhibition: The View From Here | Andrew Esiebo, Délio Jasse, Lebohang Kganye, Namsa Leuba, Mimi Cherono Ng’ok, Abraham Oghobase and Dawit L. Petros Tiwani Contemporary Gallery, London 22 May – 27 June 2015 Tiwani Contemporary is pleased to announce… Read More ›

• Saraba Magazine: Call for Submissions (Deadline 28 June)

  By Africa in Words on 15 June , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

   Saraba Magazine Call for Submissions Issue 18: The Crime Issue Crime is part of everyday life, affecting us viscerally, contributing to the dynamic of our relations. The fear of theft, of assault, builds up walls we often do not see… Read More ›

• Somaliland: Conversation with Nadifa Mohamed and Mary Harper

  By Africa in Words on 10 June , 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Thursday 18 June 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Book and Kitchen Join us at Book and Kitchen in Notting Hill for an evening of conversation and discussion on Somaliland with one of the country’s leading authors, Nadifa Mohamed, and journalist… Read More ›

• Blogging the Caine Prize: Masande Ntshanga’s ‘Space’

  By Nomonde Ntsepo on 8 June , 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  Masande Ntshanga’s title invites the reader to consider multiple conceptions of space. It conjures up stories of exploration, which promise adventure, excitement and fear. At the same time, it evokes the spaces we occupy, and suggests ways of thinking, reading… Read More ›

• Blogging the Caine Prize: F.T. Kola’s ‘A Party for the Colonel’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 4 June , 2015 • ( 8 )

  

  AiW Guest: Doseline Kiguru Writing in 2000, only six years after the end of apartheid, Sarah Nuttall and Cheryl-Ann Michael in Senses of Culture decried that South African cultural and literary imaginings have been based mainly on the following frames:… Read More ›

• Ankara Press – Call for Submissions – 30 August 2015

  By Africa in Words on 3 June , 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Ankara Press is a fresh new voice publishing romantic fiction for the African market, and is devoted to publishing easy-to-read, purse-size books with African settings, storylines and characters. Ankara Press launched in December 2014 with six titles, set in locations… Read More ›

• Is your reading really ‘useful’? Maryse Condé in Cape Town – ‘The Story of the Cannibal Woman’

  By C E Hastings on 1 June , 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  I’ve recently picked up Tim Parks’ collection of essays Where I’m Reading From: The Changing World of Books (2014).  One of the essays in Part 2, ‘The Book In the World’, entitled ‘Writing Adrift in the World’, critiques post-colonial literary… Read More ›

• The Way We Lived – A Review of Chinua Achebe’s ‘There Was a Country’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 28 May , 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  AiW Guest: Pelu Awofeso After the dust raised in Nigeria by its publication had settled, I finally read There Was a Country, Chinua Achebe’s last published book, which centres on the Nigeria-Biafra civil war and Achebe’s personal experiences of and participation… Read More ›

• Saah Millimono’s ‘Boy, Interrupted’: The Love Story from Liberia

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 May , 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  AiW Guest Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire Today, I want to tell you a story. It is not my story. It is Saah Millimono’s story. Maybe it is actually not his story, it is the novel’s protagonist Tarnue’s story. And not just… Read More ›

• Scolma Seminar: The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa

  By Africa in Words on 27 May , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa A seminar by Professor Steph Newell (University of Sussex) June 10, 11am – 12pm Seng Tee Lee Room, Senate House Library, London As part of the Scolma Lunchtime Seminar Series 2015, Professor Steph… Read More ›

• The Future of Knowledge Production: Wikithon to Improve the ‘African Literature’ Wikipedia Page

  By Stephanie Santana on 19 May , 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  On June 4 at the upcoming African Literature Association (ALA) conference at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, Africa in Words will be hosting a ‘Wikithon’ to improve the ‘African Literature’ Wikipedia page. During a Wikithon (also often called an ‘Edit-a-thon‘), people… Read More ›

• The South African State of Emergency

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 May , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest: Jeanne-Marie Jackson South Africa’s literary world, as part of the country’s broad current turmoil, offers evidence for more than just a shallow reading of cultural déjà vu. This evidence goes by the name of Salman Rushdie, who unexpectedly… Read More ›

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