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• Curating an image of Lagos

  By Nara Improta on 3 February , 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  As early as 1886, Lagosian intellectuals were engaged in changing racist and stereotyped ideas of Africa and Africans. They made a conscious effort in showing an intellectual and vibrant city, interconnected to Europe and the Americas. In my thesis Producing… Read More ›

• Call for Papers: Africa Research Day 2014 (deadline February 3)

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

  CALL FOR PAPERS – Africa Research Day 2014 Deadline: February 3, 2014 The second Africa Research Day will be hosted by the Africa Research Students Network (AfNet) on Monday, March 17, 2014 at University College London. We welcome presentations from… Read More ›

• ‘Dust’ by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor – review

  By Africa in Words Guest on 30 January , 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  AiW Guest jalida scheuerman-chianda The second time I met Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor she was sitting at a round wooden table in the garden of the Kwani? office in Nairobi, waiting to be interviewed on the launch of her debut novel… Read More ›

• Words on Teaching – “Book Review: Teaching Africa”

  By C E Hastings on 27 January , 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  As a relatively new teacher of African history at universities, I am keen to find publications that will help me reflect upon, and develop my work. Unlike in most American PhD programmes (I understand) teaching isn’t part of the core… Read More ›

• First workshop of the Leverhulme-funded Network, ‘Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructures and Literature’: “Empire and Post-Empire in the Global City”

  By Africa in Words on 22 January , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

• Q&A: Uche Peter Umez interviews poet Remi Raji

  By Africa in Words Guest on 20 January , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest: Uche Peter Umez. “the good poem must and should be readable, friendly to the spoken word without being pedantic and pedestrian” Interviewer’s Note: Remi Raji,  Nigerian poet, scholar, literary organiser, and cultural activist, is the author of six poetry… Read More ›

• 3rd Luxor African Film Festival 2014 – 16-24 March

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

  

  Cissé, al-Qaeed, Bakupa and Bonetti head four jury committees in Luxor African Film Festival 2014 320 films from 46 countries in this third edition Egyptian star Elham Shahine in jury of long competition  Tributes to Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz and Mahamet Saleh… Read More ›

• Images of Africa in Children’s Books

  By Arani Guerra on 13 January , 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Last month I babysat a friend’s child. It was Friday night and there I was, sitting next to him in his bed: it was story telling time. I drew from a pile of books a colourfully covered one, with a… Read More ›

• African Classics: Kristin Mann’s Marrying Well

  By C E Hastings on 9 January , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Sometimes apparently everyday topics of life can lead to rich rewards in terms of historical study. One example of this is (I hope she won’t mind me saying) is Kristin Mann’s study of men and women’s marrying patterns in Lagos… Read More ›

• Call for Applications: Editorial Assistant, Africa in Words

  By Africa in Words on 8 January , 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Call for Applications: Editorial Assistant  Africa in Words (www.africainwords.com) is a successful blog focusing on cultural production and Africa.  The blog covers books, art, film, history, music, theatre, ideas and people and the ways they interact, through their publication and circulation,… Read More ›

• Perhaps you missed (Festive 2013 edition)

  By C E Hastings on 30 December , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Following on from last week’s Mandela retrospective, here are some posts readers may wish to revisit – or discover for the first time from the AiW 2013 archive. If you’re a fan of the ‘best of’ lists that dominate publishing… Read More ›

• Mandela, his legacy and its betrayals

  By Rebecca Jones on 23 December , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Africa in Words will be taking a short break from posting new content over the Christmas period, but we will be back refreshed and raring to go in January. Meanwhile, so you can still get your Africa in Words fix,… Read More ›

• Q&A: Uche Peter Umez interviews poet Musa Idris Okpanachi

  By Africa in Words Guest on 19 December , 2013 • ( 10 )

  

  AiW Guest: Uche Peter Umez.  “Ironies and satires provide poetry with a kind of cynical beauty…”  Interviewer’s Note: Musa Idris Okpanachi teaches English Linguistics at the Department of English, Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State, Nigeria. His poems have appeared in Vultures… Read More ›

• Reminder – Call for Applications: the Writivism 2014 Creative Writing Workshops. Deadline December 31st, 2013.

  By Africa in Words on 18 December , 2013 • ( 0 )

  Writivism CONNECTING LITERATURE TO REALITY. Writivism 2014 Creative Writing Workshops. The Writivism 2014 workshops will be held on the 8th of February 2014, simultaneously in five different African cities. The one-day workshops are planned for Abuja, Harare, Kampala, Nairobi and Cape… Read More ›

• Anticolonial Visions: Revisiting Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic in 2013

  By Africa in Words Guest on 16 December , 2013 • ( 9 )

  

  AiW Guest Armin Fardis. We are being abandoned by history. Few care to read or think about it. We live increasingly in a ‘post-historic’: age, in the endless proliferation of technological means and what Jacques Ellul has called ‘efficient ordering’,… Read More ›

• ‘Open Access’ images of Africa?

  By C E Hastings on 12 December , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  In Jurg Schneider’s recent post for Africa in Words he wrote of the way in which photographs make up a part of a huge although highly decentralized visual archive which is open-ended and still dynamically in the making. Jurg provided links… Read More ›

• Travelling and writing Africa from within

  By Rebecca Jones on 10 December , 2013 • ( 18 )

  

  These are extremely interesting times for travel writing as a genre; a number of online- and print-based travel projects have been sprung up over recent years, all focusing on Africans travelling within Africa – some within their own countries, and… Read More ›

• Call for Applications: 6 Full-Time Project Researchers ‘The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa, 1880-present’, Kenyatta University & University of Lagos

  By Africa in Words on 9 December , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  University of Sussex English Professor Steph Newell has been awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant of 2.2 million euro to lead a five-year survey of contemporary urban life in Africa as revealed in attitudes to and perceptions of “dirt”…. Read More ›

• URGENT Call for submissions: Africa39 (by 15/12/2013)

  By Africa in Words on 8 December , 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  Binyavanga Wainaina has recently been contracted to coordinate the Africa39 Longlist – 120 of the most promising fiction authors under the age of 40 from Africa, South of the Sahara and diaspora… This is a huge undertaking and will lead… Read More ›

• University of East London, NOVELLA-CNR graduate seminar, 10.12.13: Steve Thorpe, ‘Walking the margins with Sudanese forced migrants in Cairo’.

  By Africa in Words on 4 December , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The NOVELLA (Narratives of Varied Everyday Lives and Linked Approaches) ESRC Research Node, Institute of Education and The Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London. ‘Walking the margins with Sudanese forced migrants in Cairo’. Steve Thorpe, University of East London…. Read More ›

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