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• The Rise of the African Development Confessional?

  By Africa in Words Guest on 10 October , 2013 • ( 8 )

  

  AiW guest James Smith. Nina Munk’s The Idealist: Jeffery Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (Random House) isn’t a book only about Jeffery Sachs. It’s a book about the world as we would like it to be, an uncomfortable… Read More ›

• ‘Global’ art? New series of films about contemporary art, ‘The Black Stars of Ghana – Art District’

  By Africa in Words on 9 October , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  SHOWCASE and Bureau Africa have just released their newest production, a series of film interviews with Ghanaian contemporary visual artists. The video project is now internationally launched under the title “The Black Stars of Ghana – Art District“ and comprises a series of documented conversations… Read More ›

• ‘I slowly came to the realisation that the secondary sources on Asante religion and chieftaincy were incomplete’: African Classics

  By C E Hastings on 7 October , 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  I’m delighted to introduce this post from Africa in Words Guest author, Louise Müller for the ‘African classics’ series. As Nara discussed last week, this series aims to give a fresh or alternative insight, giving our readers a chance to… Read More ›

• Q&A: Uche Peter Umez interviews poet Afam Akeh

  By Africa in Words Guest on 3 October , 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  By AiW Guest: Uche Peter Umez. “Different writers in different locations at different times find their different reasons for writing.” Interviewer’s Note: AFAM AKEH, the author of Stolen Moments (1988), has won prizes and other honours for his poems, short stories… Read More ›

• The African Film Festival of Cordoba, 11th to the 19th of October

  By Africa in Words on 2 October , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  From the 11th to the 19th October. The African Film Festival of Cordoba, 10 years breaking stereotypes. 66 films by 31 different countries in the programme, along with parallel activities, exhibitions and a space for professionals.  The African Film Festival… Read More ›

• To write poetry after Pistorius is insufficient: rapture, rupture and narrative non-fiction in South Africa

  By Africa in Words Guest on 30 September , 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  By AiW Guest Anneke Rautenbach. Tom Wolfe, as early as 1973, spoke of a new form of writing that “consumes devices that happen to have originated with the novel and mixes them with every other technique known to prose. And… Read More ›

• Spotlight on…Mengistu Lemma

  By Africa in Words Guest on 26 September , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest Sara Marzagora. This post is the second in an occasional series of writer profiles, looking especially at those working in African languages. The first post in our series was on Akinwumi Isola. Mengistu Lemma (1928-1988) If you ask… Read More ›

• African Studies Classics: Lagosian Print Culture and Gilroy’s Black Atlantic

  By Nara Improta on 24 September , 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  This is the first post of ‘African Study Classics’: a series about how intellectuals used key African history, anthropology, sociology and literature books in their own work. We are inviting writers (academics or not) to tell us about a book… Read More ›

• For Young African Writers

  By Africa in Words Guest on 19 September , 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  AiW Guest Mukoma Wa Ngugi I love to write and have been doing it for a long time now.   Along the way I have learned, mostly through mistakes, a few things that I want to list here below with the… Read More ›

• The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa – workshop and launch. University of Sussex. Oct 8th, 4pm.

  By Africa in Words on 18 September , 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Workshop at the University of Sussex, Tuesday 8th October 4pm-6pm. This workshop marks the launch of a 5-year ERC funded research project involving the University of Sussex, Kenyatta University and the University of Lagos. School of English Social Space (Arts B274) followed by… Read More ›

• Q&A with ‘Diary of a Zulu Girl’ author Mike Maphoto

  By Stephanie Santana on 16 September , 2013 • ( 23 )

  

  Mike Maphoto’s ‘Diary of a Zulu Girl’ blog is something of a digital literature phenomenon. Since it began a scant five months ago in April 2013, it has had more than 10 million page views from 22 countries, spawned numerous… Read More ›

• Is there a market (in Africa) for contemporary African art?

  By Africa in Words Guest on 12 September , 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  By Africa in Words Guest Jürg Schneider. In a period of dramatically shifting geopolitics where markets as well as people have to readjust in an accelerated pace to new constellations of players and rules there is a lot of excitement… Read More ›

• Review: Imraan Coovadia’s ‘The Institute for Taxi Poetry’

  By Tom Penfold on 9 September , 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  AiW Guest Tom Penfold. Imraan Coovadia’s The Institute of Taxi Poetry (Umuzi, 2012) is an appeal to the imagination – the reader’s and South Africa’s. Set through a week in the life of Adam Ravens as he tries to make sense of… Read More ›

• Call for applications: P/t Project Co-ordinator, ‘The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa, 1880-present’

  By Africa in Words on 8 September , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Based at the University of Sussex, School of English. Principal Investigator – Professor Steph Newell. Fixed term for 5 years, 18.25 hours per week Closing date for applications:  15 September 2013 Expected start date: As soon as possible This European Research… Read More ›

• Marli Roode, ‘Call it Dog’ and Achmat Dangor’s ‘Strange Pilgrimages’ – after Edinburgh Book Festival, 2013

  By Katie Reid on 5 September , 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  This post draws together reflections on two sessions from the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2013, featuring books from or about South Africa – one called Getting Over Apartheid with award-winning South African author Achmat Dangor (unfortunately, Sindiwe Magona had to cancel, so Dangor appeared alone), and another… Read More ›

• Black Letter Media – call for speculative fiction submissions (Africa wide)

  By Katie Reid on 4 September , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Black Letter Media Africa-wide call for unpublished speculative fiction (in English) Novel-length manuscripts They say, “Until the lion learns to speak the take of the hunt will always glorify the hunter”. Our vision, therefore, is to give voice to the… Read More ›

• Elephants and Metaphors: the Nyamnjoh debate on African anthropology

  By Rebecca Jones on 2 September , 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  There’s been an debate going in the pages of Africa Spectrum which we thought might be of interest to some of our readers (hat tip to Stephanie Newell for bringing this to our attention). In 2012, Cape Town-based anthropologist Francis… Read More ›

• Lauren Beukes and African Science Fiction

  By Africa in Words Guest on 29 August , 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  Africa in Words Guest, Professor James Smith of the University of Edinburgh, writes: Professionally I research the role science and technology play in shaping Africa’s development. Thus I naturally have an interest in the writing of Lauren Beukes given her… Read More ›

• Spotlight on…Akinwumi Isola

  By Rebecca Jones on 26 August , 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  This post is the first in an occasional series of writer profiles, looking especially at those working in African languages.   For readers and speakers of Yoruba, Akínwùmí Ìsòlá [pronounced Ishola] needs little introduction. A charismatic and stern-looking figure affectionately nicknamed… Read More ›

• Q&A: Henrietta Rose-Innes – ‘New Voices from South Africa’ at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

  By Katie Reid on 23 August , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Henrietta Rose-Innes is an award-winning South African writer based in Cape Town. I was lucky enough to be able to catch her at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in advance of her session, ‘New Voices from South Africa’, which is on the… Read More ›

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