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• Writing for Liberty Conference – Call for Papers (3 October 2014)

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

  

  Writing for Liberty Conference Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research Lancaster University, 17-18 April 2015 Keynote speaker: Véronique Tadjo, University of the Witwatersrand Call for Papers Writing for Liberty is a two-day conference hosted by the Centre for Transcultural Writing… Read More ›

• Portraiture & Photography in Africa

  By C E Hastings on 14 July , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Peffer and Cameron’s new edited collection brings together disparate accounts of photography in Africa, revising and developing what is, as they point out, still a relatively new field, despite the work of (for example) Paul Jenkins and Paul Landau that… Read More ›

• Blogging the Caine Prize: Efemia Chela’s ‘Chicken’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 11 July , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed Efemia Chela’s ‘Chicken’ initially felt like two different stories told in three parts. This was until I gave it another read and realised its three separate parts tell an interesting coming-of-age story. Our narrator, Kaba, is at… Read More ›

• African Photography Initiatives: Call for Papers (15 May – 15 August 2014)

  By Africa in Words on 9 July , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  African Photography Initiatives Conference Validating Visual Heritage in Africa: Historical Photographs and the Role of the “Archive”  Buea, Cameroon, 26 – 31 January 2015 African Photography Initiatives is pleased to announce that the conference Validating Visual Heritage in Africa: Historical Photographs and… Read More ›

• Blogging the Caine Prize: Tendai Huchu’s ‘The Intervention’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 8 July , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest Anthea Gordon In Binyavanga Wainana’s influential essay ‘How to Write About Africa’, one of his many salient pieces of tongue-in-cheek advice is: ‘be sure to leave the strong impression that without your intervention and your important book, Africa… Read More ›

• *Call for submissions* Film Africa 2014 (deadline: 15 July 2014)

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

  

  *Call for submissions* Film Africa 2014 Takes place: 31 October – 9 November 2014, London Submission deadline: 15 July 2014 Film Africa is delighted to announce that it is now accepting submissions for its 2014 festival edition. In line with our commitment to screening… Read More ›

• News: A. Gofer wins the inaugural International Proofreader’s Derby (from Ivan Vladislavic’s ‘The Restless Supermarket’)

  By Katie Reid on 3 July , 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  NEWS (no longer quite breaking): A. Gofer (c/o Steph Newell) has won the inaugural International Aubrey Tearle Proofreader’s Derby (fittingly restlessly re-named from the 2014 Restless Derby). The neck-and-neck runners up are Catharine Morris aka Words and Things, and Kai… Read More ›

• ‘British Diasporic Literature in English and Vernaculars’ Conference: Manchester, 4 July 2014

  By Africa in Words on 30 June , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Conference and Book Launch Friday 4 July 2014 10am – 6pm Racism, Writing and Resistance: British Diasporic Literature in English and Vernaculars Manchester Central Library Performance Space, St Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD We have seen a decade of re-energised racism and… Read More ›

• Africa Writes 2014 (11 – 13 July)

  By Africa in Words on 28 June , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Africa Writes Friday 11 – Sunday 13 July 2014 The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB Africa Writes – the Royal African Society’s annual literature and book festival promoting contemporary African writing – returns to The British Library…. Read More ›

• Etisalat – Call for Entries (12 May – 8 August 2014)

  By Africa in Words on 25 June , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Etisalat Nigeria invites entries for the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature. Entries close on the 8th of August 2014. On the 12th May, Etisalat Nigeria announced the 2014 Etisalat Prize for Literature “Call for Entries”, the second edition of the much… Read More ›

• Blogging the Caine Prize: Okwiri Oduor’s ‘My Father’s Head’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 21 June , 2014 • ( 9 )

  

  AiW Guest: Doseline Kiguru   As I began to read ‘My Father’s Head’, I thought for a moment that it was going to be yet another Caine Prize story set in church and about cunning priests and their gullible as well as… Read More ›

• Victor Ehikhamenor: Chronicles Of The Enchanted World Exhibition, 21 May – 19 July 2014

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

  

  “Chronicles Of The Enchanted World”  Paintings and Sculptural Installations by Victor Ehikhamenor, 21 May – 19 July 2014 Gallery of African Art, London

• Ivan Vladislavić in the UK – events

  By Africa in Words on 18 June , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  | online | Norwich | London | Brighton | Cambridge | with J.M. Coetzee and No Violet Bulawayo at the Worlds Literature Festival in Norwich, 19 June And Patrick Flanery for ‘Camera Obscura: a View of South Africa’,  25 June… Read More ›

• Call for Entries: Africa in Motion Short Film Competition 2014 (deadline 30 June 2014)

  By Africa in Words on 18 June , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Africa in Motion Short Film Competition 2014 Dear Filmmakers, We are currently inviting African filmmakers to submit short films of no longer than 30 minutes for Africa in Motion’s prestigious annual short film competition, to which a substantial cash prize is… Read More ›

• An interview with novelist Fred Soneka

  By Rebecca Jones on 16 June , 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Fred Soneka is a novelist living in Freetown, Sierra Leone, who recently published two novels:  When The Axe Swings (2012) and Looking for Tanana (2013). When The Axe Swings explores the dynamics of a polygamous marriage as the woodcutter Woody… Read More ›

• The Golden Baobab Prize – Call for Submissions (29 June 2014)

  By Africa in Words on 15 June , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The Golden Baobab Prize, Ghana: Call for Submissions Submission date: 29th June 2014. Winners will be announced in November 2014. The 2014 Golden Baobab Prizes are making their final call for submissions. With about three weeks more to end the call,… Read More ›

• Blogging the Caine Prize: Diane Awerbuck’s ‘Phosphorescence’

  By Katie Reid on 13 June , 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  A story about waste – human waste – in immaculate prose, Diane Awerbuck’s ‘Phosphorescence’ has, for me, a quality of suspension. On the one hand, it’s about the defiant resistance of ‘an old lady’ against loss, of her habitual daily… Read More ›

• The Global History of the Book (1780 to the present): Call for Papers (submission deadline 15 June 2014)

  By Africa in Words on 11 June , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  The Global History of the Book (1780 to the present): Workshop Ertegun House, University of Oxford, 4 – 5 December 2014 The Global History of the Book (1780 to the present) is a two-day interdisciplinary workshop organised by doctoral and… Read More ›

• Sarah Lotz on Her New Global Thriller, ‘The Three’

  By Stephanie Santana on 10 June , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Walking into Vroman’s—an independent bookstore in Pasadena, California, a place I’ve been coming since I was a kid—I was shocked to see Sarah Lotz’s name written neatly in red marker on the whiteboard announcing author talks. I’d just come back… Read More ›

• Blogging the Caine Prize: Billy Kahora’s ‘The Gorilla’s Apprentice’

  By Africa in Words on 6 June , 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  A note of intro. from Africa in Words: Last year we took part in ‘Blogging the Caine Prize’ – a carnival of week-by-week blogging around the shortlist for the annual Caine Prize for African writing.  While there is no ‘organised’ carnival… Read More ›

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