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• Igbo Heritage: Production, Diffusion and Legacy (3rd Annual Igbo Conference)

  By Africa in Words on 2 April , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  2nd-3rd May 2014, SOAS, Brunei Lecture Theatre and Suite The third annual Igbo Conference will provide a platform to examine various aspects of the Igbo heritage, including but not limited to: Igbo Heritage and the Arts, Food, Diet and Lifestyle,… Read More ›

• Words on Teaching – “Visual sources in the classroom – after ‘Teaching Difficult Subjects’ (Birmingham)”

  By C E Hastings on 1 April , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Last month I attended a seminar day at Birmingham, ‘Teaching Difficult Subjects’ (organised by the Higher Education Academy in the UK). Although the full content of the day was fascinating (and wide ranging) encompassing genocide, holocaust and ‘war studies’, I… Read More ›

• Event: Sussex Africa Centre. Peter van der Windt, ‘Local institutions and Cooperation in the Presence of Migration: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo’

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

  

  AiW Guest: Daniel Watson. At the most recent Sussex Africa Centre event, Peter van der Windt – PhD candidate at Columbia University – presented his research on  ‘Local institutions and Cooperation in the Presence of Migration: Evidence from the Democratic… Read More ›

• ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ (2013 Film) – review

  By Africa in Words on 25 March , 2014 • ( 6 )

  

  For Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie readers in the UK, the film adaptation of Half of a Yellow Sun has been a long time coming. Widely anticipated by online forums including Adichie’s Facebook page, Half of a Yellow Sun’s world premier took… Read More ›

• Musing On The Etisalat Prize For ‘Fiction’ – Sorry ‘Literature’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 21 March , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest Toni Kan Literary prizes are strange animals.  As subjective as they often are, they usually confer immediate entrée into the rarefied heights of the literary canon.  And because they are strange animals, one is almost never surprised when… Read More ›

• 3rd African Popular Cultures Workshop, University of Sussex, 31 March 2014

  By Africa in Words on 19 March , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The School of English and the Sussex Africa Centre Postgraduate Committee invite you to the 3rd African Popular Cultures Workshop at the University of Sussex Monday 31st March 2014, 11.00am – 6.30pm with Professor Karin Barber (University of Birmingham), Professor… Read More ›

• ‘Literature, the African Condition and my Life’. Wole Soyinka gives the 2014 African Studies Annual Lecture. University of Oxford.

  By Africa in Words on 19 March , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  For more information, and to book your place online, see the African Studies Centre at Oxford.

• Words on Teaching – “The Image of Africa in a Survey Course”

  By Africa in Words Guest on 17 March , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Africa in Words Guest: Bronwen Everill In my three years of teaching African history at a variety of levels (first, second, and third years; MA students), I have continually been pleasantly surprised by the quality of debate that African history… Read More ›

• Sussex Africa Centre (SAC) – Emerging Research Landscapes II, 6th March 2014

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 March , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  By AiW Guest: Francesca Salvi. Offering three presentations from different department across the University of Sussex, the second postgraduate Sussex Africa Centre event, “Emerging Research Landscapes II”, furthered its aims of showcasing Africa-focused postgraduate research from a variety of perspectives,… Read More ›

• Reminder – CFP open for African Studies Association UK 2014 Conference (deadline 25 April)

  By Africa in Words on 13 March , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The ASAUK biennial conference will be held at the University of Sussex this year and will run from 2pm on Tuesday Sept 9th to 3.30 pm on Thursday 11th September 2014. The Sussex Africa Centre is scheduled for its official launch… Read More ›

• ‘Diaspora [still] Writes Back’. Africa Writes (RAS).

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

  

  AiW Guest: Ben Verghese. Africa Writes is the annual literary festival from the Royal African Society – a celebration of contemporary African literature from across the continent and the diaspora, held in early July. Last year (2013), AiW were at the festival covering… Read More ›

• CFP: African Trajectories: Travel and the Archive

  By C E Hastings on 7 March , 2014 • ( 0 )

  SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa)  Annual Conference African Trajectories: Travel and the Archive   2 July 2014 University of Birmingham   CALL FOR PAPERS “Travel, in the younger sort, is part of education; in the elder,… Read More ›

• Event: Sussex Africa Centre. James Esson, ‘Entrepeneurs of the body? Ghanaian youth and football trafficking’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 4 March , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  By AiW Guest: Ross Wignall. First, from us at AiW, a quick intro to the Sussex Africa Centre, a new initiative in its founding year, celebrating the University of Sussex’s history of international scholarship and engagement with the African continent…. Read More ›

• Reviews: The Year Ahead in African Fiction

  By Stephanie Santana on 25 February , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  In my current capacity as Reviews Editor, I’d like to highlight in this post some of the new fiction that Africa in Words hopes to engage with in the coming months. While this list is by no means exhaustive and… Read More ›

• Announcement: African Poetry Book Fund

  By C E Hastings on 24 February , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  The African Poetry Book Fund announces its three African poetry titles for 2014. The launch titles are: The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems 1964-2013 by Kofi Awoonor Madman at Kalifi by Clifton Gachagua Seven New Generation African Poets,… Read More ›

• Words on Teaching – Sipho Sepamla, literary realism and ‘A Ride on the Whirlwind’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 18 February , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  By AiW Guest: An anonymous academic labourer, somewhere in the South-East of England. Recently I helped teach a course on South African protest and resistance literature. We looked at fiction and poetry from the late 1970s to the late 80s,… Read More ›

• CFP: Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo (deadline May 30)

  By Africa in Words on 12 February , 2014 • ( 1 )

  Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo Edited by Rose A. Sackeyfio and Blessing Diala-Ogamba Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo has emerged as one of Nigeria’s leading female writers. Her distinguished career gained prominence in the early 21st century and continues to evolve… Read More ›

• African Study Classics – Walter Rodney

  By Africa in Words Guest on 10 February , 2014 • ( 0 )

  AiW Guest Amber Murrey  An influential Pan-Africanist and historian, Walter Rodney’s work provides guidance, invigoration and sustenance to PanAfricanists, scholars of Africa and the African Diaspora, and those interested in the socio-historical roots of social inequality. As a university professor in… Read More ›

• Goethe-Institut Joburg – New South African Voices: Childhood Revisited. Childhood and Adolescence mirrored in Contemporary South African Literature

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

  

  Book reading and discussion with KGEBETLI MOELE AND RACHEL ZADOK 11TH FEBRUARY 2014, 19H00 GOETHE-INSTITUT, LIBRARY Children are not only young people developing but subjects in their own right. This premise is the starting point to discuss social constructions of… Read More ›

• CFP: CELEBRATING CHINUA ACHEBE’S LEGACY – deadline April 16

  By Africa in Words on 5 February , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  We are organising a conference to commemorate Chinua Achebe’s work and influence, and to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Arrow of God, which many consider Achebe’s greatest novel.  The conference will be held at the University of London… Read More ›

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