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• Call for Papers: Anglica Journal of English Studies (deadline 31 January 2015)

  By Africa in Words on 7 December , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The editors of ANGLICA: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES, an online peer-reviewed annual journal under the auspices of the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, invite submissions for our next volume. Volume 24/1 is devoted to all aspects… Read More ›

• Literary Studies at the African Studies Association 2014: Review

  By Africa in Words Guest on 3 December , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest Nathan Suhr-Sytsma The 57th annual meeting of the African Studies Association took place in Indianapolis over the weekend of 20-23rd November, under the theme ‘Rethinking Violence, Reconstruction and Reconciliation’. A large interdisciplinary conference with more than two thousand… Read More ›

• The Supreme Price: Thinking about ‘wives’ and the gender of political leadership

  By C E Hastings on 1 December , 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  For me ‘The Supreme Price’ reflects a conflict many working with questions of gender and politics in history will recognise. How to measure the significance of women who attain power through men (husbands, fathers, sons)? How important is it to distinguish between women as figureheads… Read More ›

• Concerning Violence: In UK Cinemas Now

  By Africa in Words on 30 November , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Concerning Violence A Film by Göran Hugo Olsson Based on Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth In UK cinemas from 28 November 2014 – 15 February 2015 From the director of The Black Power Mixtape, Concerning Violence is one of this… Read More ›

• CFP: Colloquium on Print Culture and Colonisation in Africa

  By Africa in Words on 26 November , 2014 • ( 1 )

  Call for Papers Colloquium on ‘Print Culture and Colonisation in Africa’ 28-29 May 2015, Cape Town  Jointly hosted by the University of Pretoria and University of Cape Town, in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University and with funding from the British Academy

• ‘My First Coup’: autobiographies of childhood

  By C E Hastings on 24 November , 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  My auntie and the headmistress tried as best they could, with smiles and toffee, to shield me from their rising anxiety, but I could feel it bouncing off the quick sideways glances they shot each other and taking flight like… Read More ›

• “All the talk in WWI seems to be about France…”*

  By C E Hastings on 20 November , 2014 • ( 12 )

  

   Why were Africans consigned to the margins, sometimes altogether erased, when the drama of this war was narrated? (Okey Ndibe) Okey Ndibe‘s comment above reflected on the absence of acknowledgement for Africa and Africans in terms of a different global war,… Read More ›

• Africa39: Hay Festival UK Events (29 November and 1 December 2014)

  By Africa in Words on 16 November , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Following the recent launch of the Africa39 anthology, which selected and celebrates new work from the most promising 39 authors under the age of 40 from Sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora, four writers published in the collection will appear in dialogue with editor Ellah… Read More ›

• Ake Arts and Book Festival, 18 – 22 November 2014

  By Africa in Words on 16 November , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Ake Arts and Book Festival Abeokuta, Ogun State 18 – 22 November 2014 The second edition of Ake Arts and Book Festival will take place at June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto-Abeokuta from 18-22 November 2014. The theme is Bridges and Pathways… Read More ›

• Abderrahmane Sissako’s ‘Timbuktu’ (2014): Film Africa, Review

  By Africa in Words Guest on 15 November , 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  AiW Guest Sarah Jilani Returning to London for its fourth year, the Royal African Society’s Film Africa 2014 festival brought a wealth of diverse voices from Africa and beyond in a celebration of past and present filmmaking from the continent…. Read More ›

• Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s ‘Kintu’ Made Me Want to Tell Our Stories

  By Africa in Words Guest on 12 November , 2014 • ( 9 )

  

  AiW Guest Nyana Kakoma When upcoming writers like me hear that Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi started writing Kintu in 2003, we despair. We reach into that part of our brain that always doubts that we will make it at this writing… Read More ›

• Between Imagination and Madness: Matière grise (2011) – review

  By Africa in Words Guest on 11 November , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest Catherine Gilbert Matière grise (Grey Matter), 2011.  Directed by Kivu Ruhorahoza. 110 min. Kinyarwanda and French with English subtitles. 2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda in which as many as one million people were… Read More ›

• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s ‘Weep Not, Child’ – 50 Years On

  By Africa in Words Guest on 10 November , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest Sarah Jilani This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s  Weep Not, Child.  When the novel was originally published in 1964 by Heinemann’s African Writers Series, its author James Ngugi was a young Kenyan student at… Read More ›

• The circulation of politics, art and literature in Nigeria

  By Rebecca Jones on 7 November , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  As part of his tour of the UK to promote his novel, Foreign Gods, Inc., journalist, academic and writer Okey Ndibe paid a visit to the University of Sussex earlier this week. As well as being interviewed by locally-based African literature… Read More ›

• African Music at the EFG London Jazz Festival, 14 – 23 November 2014

  By Africa in Words on 5 November , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  EFG London Jazz Festival Venues across London Friday 14th November – Sunday 23rd November The EFG London Jazz Festival, the capital’s biggest pan-city music festival, takes place from 14 – 23 November and is this year showcasing a particularly exciting… Read More ›

• Luxor African Film Festival – Call for Submissions (30 November 2014)

  By Africa in Words on 29 October , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF)  Call for Film Submissions and Filmmaking Workshop Applications for its 4th Edition,  March 2015 Submission deadline: 30 November 2014 The management of Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) whose 4th edition will take place from 17 to March 23,… Read More ›

• Film Africa 2014, 31 October – 9 November 2014

  By Africa in Words on 25 October , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Film African 2014 London Friday 31 October – Sunday 9 November Film Africa – the Royal African Society’s annual film festival and London’s biggest celebration of African cinema – returns for the fourth year with a bumper programme of films, premieres and visiting… Read More ›

• Book giveaway: celebrating 4,000 followers

  By Africa in Words on 23 October , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  At the time of writing, we’re about to hit 4,000 followers across twitter, Facebook and wordpress, and the team at Africa in Words would like to thank you our readers, contributors and commentators for your support. As a small gesture… Read More ›

• Africa in Words hosts Okey Ndibe

  By Africa in Words on 21 October , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Okey Ndibe is a novelist, political commentator and essayist whose writing has been praised and championed by leading voices in African literature including Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka and Ngugi wa Thiong’o.  His first novel Arrows of Rain was published in… Read More ›

• “Out in Africa: Same-sex desire in sub saharan literatures and cultures” by Chantal Zabus (Review)

  By C E Hastings on 20 October , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

    Mama still reminds me every once in a while that there are penalties in Nigeria for that sort of thing. And of course, she’s right. I’ve read of them in the newspapers and have heard of them on the… Read More ›

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