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• Event: South African Artists in Focus | The 2015 Wits Art Museum public lecture series

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

  

  (c/o the Heritage Portal) Following on the success of the 2013 and 2014 WAM lecture series’ on African art, Wits Art Museum (WAM) and The Centre for Creative Arts of Africa (CCAA) will present this year’s lecture series, South African… Read More ›

• Accessing academic texts on Africa beyond the firewall: New African Histories (Ohio University Press)

  By C E Hastings on 23 March , 2015 • ( 0 )

  Open Access, the campaign to make scholarship free to read for everyone, not just those who have paid to get past the firewalls, continues to gain ground. It’s still difficult to access academic texts for those without access to university libraries. Scribd is… Read More ›

• Marlene Dumas at the Tate Modern

  By Africa in Words on 18 March , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden Tate Modern, London 5 February – 10 May 2015 Marlene Dumas is one of the most prominent painters working today. Her intense, psychologically charged works explore themes of sexuality, love, death and shame, while… Read More ›

• Some South African Literary Events in focus this week

  By Katie Reid on 17 March , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Congratulations to Songeziwe Mahlangu who has won the #EtisalatPrize2014 #EtisalatPrizeforLiterature! — pen_southafrica (@pen_southafrica) March 15, 2015 As South African writer Songeziwe Mahlangu, with his novel Penumbra (Kwela, 2013), is announced as the winner of the second Etisalat Prize for Literature –… Read More ›

• Call For Papers: RAL Special Issue on Ken Saro-Wiwa as Public Intellectual

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

  

  Guest Editor: Stephanie Newell Since his execution by the Nigerian authorities in 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa has received global recognition as a key figure in the struggle for minority people’s environmental and political rights. This special issue of Research in African… Read More ›

• GRID Cape Town Photography Biennial – until March 15

  By Africa in Words on 11 March , 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Few days left to catch the GRID Cape Town Biennial: 14 Feb – 15 March 2015: GRID is an international photography biennial which is to be organized in several important upcoming creative cities in the world. GRID brings together formal… Read More ›

• Terra incognita. Uncharted depths. Africa unknowable.

  By Katie Reid on 11 March , 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Short Story Day Africa‘s second collection of short stories Terra Incognita is an anthology of new speculative fiction from Africa, featuring the top nineteen stories from SSDA’s 2014 competition, edited this year by Nerine Dorman. This carefully curated collection is harvested from entries… Read More ›

• CFP: Writing South Africa Now

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

  

  Writing South Africa Now in conjunction with the Southern African Poetry Project University of Cambridge 26-27 June 2015 Venue: The English Faculty, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom CFP deadline: April 15, 2015 Writing South Africa Now is the UK’s foremost… Read More ›

• The Valentine’s Day Anthology: a snapshot of the possibilities and challenges of African publishing

  By Emma Shercliff on 5 March , 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  February 14th 2015 marked the publication of the Valentine’s Day Anthology, a collection of short romance stories by seven leading African authors, translated and recorded in different African languages and published by Ankara Press. AiW author Emma Shercliff reflects here… Read More ›

• A brief introduction to South African house music

  By Africa in Words Guest on 2 March , 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  AiW guest: Tom Simmert In the end it’s all DJ Lunga’s fault. Without the feature about him and his label Baainar Records in the German magazine BEAT, I’d never (or at least much later) have thought about South African House… Read More ›

• Africa Travels, Africa Writes.  Notes on African Intellectual Mobilities.  

  By Africa in Words Guest on 26 February , 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW guests: Janet Remmington and Nicklas Hållén Typically Africa has been framed as a destination, not source, of travellers. Also it has been taken to be the subject, not origin, of texts. Travel and movement of Africans are too often… Read More ›

• Read more! On lists, labels and limits for ‘African women’s writing’

  By C E Hastings on 24 February , 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Inspired by Dele Meiji Fatunla and Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed‘s list of 50 women writers they believe ‘everyone’ should read, I’m hoping to complete their list of recommendations in 2015. It includes exciting developments in publishing over recent years, as well as many of’the… Read More ›

• BN Poetry Award 2015 judges announced

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

  

  Africa in Words is delighted to be a media partner for the BN Poetry Award 2015. The BN Poetry Award, established in 2008, is a Uganda-based award for unpublished poetry by African poets. The call for submissions for this year’s award… Read More ›

• Compelling narratives: stretching ‘memoir’ in ‘African lives’

  By C E Hastings on 19 February , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Geoff Wisner sets himself a sizeable task in ‘African Lives’, to introduce the life-writing of the continent: I don’t envy this anthologist. His introduction makes the case for the long history of autobiographical writing in Africa. Wisner argues it needs to be rescued, to be… Read More ›

• Pigeon Posts: Letters from Africa – special offer for AiW readers

  By Rebecca Jones on 15 February , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  We’re delighted to be able to offer African in Words readers free access to the first five staves (chapters) of Pigeon Posts: Letters from Africa.  Monday 19th January 2015 saw the launch of digital serial publisher The Pigeonhole’s first real-time book, Pigeon… Read More ›

• Review – Jacob Dlamini’s Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal

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

  

  AiW Guest: James Smith. On Jacob Dlamini’s Askari: A story of collaboration and betrayal in the anti-apartheid struggle (Jacana Media, 2014). To many the mere notion of an askari challenges. In the South African context it denotes someone who does… Read More ›

• Imagine Africa 500 Anthology: Submissions Deadline 15 March 2015

  By Africa in Words on 11 February , 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  The Story Club Malawi, in partnership with Malawian publisher Panafrica Publishers Ltd., has announced an open submission for its upcoming anthology IMAGINE AFRICA 500. The anthology will collect short stories set in Africa in 2515: “We urge writers from all… Read More ›

• The Literature Gap in African Legal Academia

  By Africa in Words Guest on 9 February , 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire Writing for Africa in Words in May 2014, Dustin Zacks presented a case for the inclusion of African Literature in American legal academia. The case for the inclusion of African literature, or any other literature… Read More ›

• CFP: American Political Science Association Workshop on “Conflict and Political Violence”

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

  

  2015 Workshop on “Conflict and Political Violence” to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from July 20-31 Call for Participant Applications Deadline: March 15, 2015 The American Political Science Association (APSA) and United States International University-Africa (USIU) are pleased to announce… Read More ›

• Review: Alex Mvuka Ntung’s autobiography Not My Worst Day

  By Rebecca Jones on 3 February , 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  When I first sat down to review this book I felt resistant. Not My Worst Day is an autobiography that narrates Alex Mvuka Ntung’s childhood and young adulthood in the Great Lakes Region, describing his experiences during the Rwandan Genocide… Read More ›

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