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• Writivism Festival, Kampala, 18-22 June 2014

  By Africa in Words on 4 June , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  The 2014 Writivism Festival 18-22 June 2014 National Theatre, Kampala, Uganda The 2014 Writivism Festival provides a platform for the enjoyment and production of high quality African arts and culture. Held every year in Kampala, Uganda, the Festival attracts all… Read More ›

• Register for the 2014 Derby – from ‘The Restless Supermarket’ by Ivan Vladislavić

  By Katie Reid on 3 June , 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  | REGISTER for the 2014 Restless Derby | Judged by The Restless Supermarket author Ivan Vladislavić. The winner is to be announced at a celebratory awards ceremony at the University of Sussex on Monday 23rd June, from 3.30pm. Vladislavić, recognised as… Read More ›

• Precarious texts? a new autobiography project

  By C E Hastings on 3 June , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  If you talk to a researcher about their PhD, I have found that there comes a moment when they reveal the ‘hidden’ thesis, the one they didn’t quite write. In history, this is sometimes prevented by archival destruction (recent or ancient),… Read More ›

• South African Book Fair, 13-15 June 2014

  By Africa in Words on 31 May , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  South African Book Fair, 13-15th June 2014 Cape Town International Convention Centre, 09.00-18.00 daily The final countdown to the 2014 South African Book Fair has begun! The annual South African Book Fair kicks off at the Cape Town International Convention Centre… Read More ›

• The Absence of African Literature in American Legal Academia

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 May , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest: Dustin Zacks. The American Law and Literature movement consistently draws discussion material from the same wells.  Consider a cursory search of just one database, HeinOnline, commonly used to browse American law reviews: one could spend countless hours perusing… Read More ›

• Africa Together, 23 May 2014, University of Cambridge

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

  

   Africa Together, Friday 23rd May 2014, University of Cambridge The African Society of Cambridge University (ASCU) is pleased to present the first-ever event commemorating Africa Day in Cambridge, UK. The event will be held on 23rd May 2014 at the Cambridge Union… Read More ›

• Brian Chikwava at Queen Mary University of London: Migrant London in the Age of Neoliberalism

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

  

  2014 Re-Launch of the Centre for the Study of Migration, introduced by Bill Schwarz Migrant London in the Age of Neoliberalism Brian Chikwava in conversation with Rachael Gilmour Thursday 22 May, 2014, 6.00p.m. ArtsOne Lecture Theatre, ArtsOne Building, Mile End Campus… Read More ›

• Perhaps you missed… some South African-born short (plus a bit of long) fiction news

  By Katie Reid on 13 May , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Some fiction news from South Africa in these last few weeks – the shorts: Twenty in 20 – a call for your bests of the South African short story since 1994   |   the Sunday Times Lifestyle Magazine (27th… Read More ›

• CFA: Early Career Scholars – Writing Workshop. 11th September 2014, ASAUK Conference, University of Sussex

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

  

  The African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) invite applications to attend a writing workshop for early career scholars to be held at the ASAUK Conference, University of Sussex 9-11th September 2014. Deadline for receipt of applications: 5pm, 6 June… Read More ›

• Forward to Freedom: The History of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1959-1994

  By Africa in Words Guest on 28 April , 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  Africa in Words Guest: Lucy McCann. For the 20th anniversary of the first democratic elections in South Africa on the 27th April a website has been launched recording the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain. Funded by the Amiel &… Read More ›

• Rwanda in Photographs (exhibition closes Wednesday April 30th)

  By Kate Wallis on 27 April , 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  On Saturday morning I went to look again at the ‘Rwanda in Photographs: Death Then, Life Now‘ exhibition at Somerset House.   Curated by Zoe Norridge and Mark Sealy, the exhibition grew out of a photography workshop in Kigali convened… Read More ›

• Q&A: Jalada – pan-African writers’ collective

  By Kate Wallis on 25 April , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  New pan-African writers’ collective Jalada formed last June and published their first anthology ‘Sketch of a Bald Woman in the Semi-Nude and Other Stories’ in January. Heralded by Binyavanga Wainaina as a new generation of writers producing exciting and original work, Jalada is already achieving significant critical… Read More ›

• Roundtable on African Popular Culture and Public Space: Review

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

  

  AiW Guest Rehab Abdelghany The 3rd African Popular Cultures Workshop hosted at the University of Sussex concluded with a roundtable that brought together six academics and creative writers, who research, write from and about different parts of the African continent…. Read More ›

• The Exhibition and Plenary Lecture at the African Popular Cultures Workshop: Review

  By Africa in Words on 17 April , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  The second half of the African Popular Cultures Workshop at Sussex was held in a modern studio space called the ‘Creativity Zone’. Made up of three adjoining rooms, each of these exhibited different elements of work brought together under the… Read More ›

• Inua Ellams at the African Popular Cultures Workshop: Review

  By Africa in Words Guest on 15 April , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest Lilly Kroll Inua Ellams is in a state of flux. He is scrolling through the iPad in front of him, searching for a poem by the American poet Terrance Hayes to read aloud to the crowd of people… Read More ›

• ‘Nairobi Half Life’ (2012 Film) at the 3rd African Popular Cultures Workshop: Review  

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 April , 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  At the end of March we – Katie and Kate – were lucky enough to be involved in organizing the third African Popular Cultures workshop at the University of Sussex.  This collaboration between the Sussex Africa Centre PhD committee, tutors… Read More ›

• A lesson well learned: my internship at the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool

  By Africa in Words Guest on 11 April , 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Africa in Words Guest: Rianne Walet I am a cultural heritage student from the Netherlands. From September 2013 till February 2014 I had the privilege of doing an internship with the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool. For five lovely months… Read More ›

• Making lists: Africa39

  By Kate Wallis on 10 April , 2014 • ( 6 )

  

  List culture has become as ‘ubiquitous’ a feature of contemporary cultural life as the prize culture James English writes about in his seminal The Economy of Prestige. Lists from The New Yorker’s 20 Under 40 to Granta’s Best Young British… Read More ›

• CFP: Sesheta, Essays on Africana Autobiography

  By Africa in Words on 9 April , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

• Book Review: Teju Cole’s ‘Every Day Is for the Thief’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 3 April , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest Kristen Roupenian The back matter of Teju Cole’s novel Every Day Is for the Thief refers to an ‘unnamed narrator’, but if this is not meant to be the same character as Julius, our guide through 2011’s Open City, then Cole… Read More ›

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