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• New publication – Accented Futures: Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid, by Carli Coetzee

  By Africa in Words on 21 August , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  This is a superb contribution to thinking about the teaching and transmutation of the culture of letters in South Africa. — Arlene Archer, University of Cape Town In this wonderfully original, intensely personal yet deeply analytical work, Carli Coetzee argues that… Read More ›

• Preliminary Call for Interest: New Universities Project, South Africa

  By Katie Reid on 21 August , 2013 • ( 0 )

  New Universities Project, South Africa School of Heritage, Northern Cape Preliminary Call for Interest Two new universities will open in South Africa in 2014/15. These are the first universities to be launched by the South African government since the move… Read More ›

• The magic of African cinema comes to Scotland

  By Africa in Words Guest on 19 August , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest Justine Atkinson on the upcoming ‘Africa in Motion‘ Film Festival: Fallous is a young Tunisian boy who is always running. We follow him as he journeys through his village, down winding paths bordered with lush green forests, greeting each… Read More ›

• The ‘Broken Hill’ skull (Lusaka National Museum collection) – Pratchaya Phinthong @ Chisenhale Gallery, London

  By Katie Reid on 14 August , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

        PRATCHAYA PHINTHONG | ‘BROKEN HILL’ Chisenhale Gallery, London | 26 JULY – 1 SEPTEMBER 2013 Chisenhale Gallery presents a new commission by Bangkok based artist Pratchaya Phinthong for his first solo exhibition in the UK. Broken Hill explores the… Read More ›

• Reminder: CFP North African Cinemas (Journal of African Cinemas)

  By Africa in Words on 14 August , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Call for Papers Journal of African Cinemas – Special Issue on North African Cinema Guest Editor: Dr Stefanie Van de Peer North African cinema has suffered from neglect in studies on African cinema. It’s hinge-like geographical position – is it… Read More ›

• From the ‘African Booker’ to ‘The Booker’: NoViolet Bulawayo’s ‘We Need New Names’

  By Stephanie Santana on 12 August , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel We Need New Names ends its first and last chapters with the same sensory detail: the alternately ‘dizzying’ and ‘delicious’ smell of Lobels bread. It is a smell that wafts through otherwise macabre scenes. In the first, a woman… Read More ›

• South African authors (and more besides) at the Edinburgh International Book Festival -10-26 August, 2013

  By Katie Reid on 9 August , 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  The Edinburgh International Book Festival, “the world’s largest public celebration of the written word, right in the heart of Edinburgh”, starts this Saturday, August 10th, and is celebrating its 30th birthday this year (fanfare! trrumpets!). Among the variety of dynamic… Read More ›

• Borrowing the bookshelf: lessons in [virtual bookshelf] husbandry

  By C E Hastings on 5 August , 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  I came across a meme recently “You know you’re a bookaholic when…” One was “when the first thing you look at in a friend’s house is the bookshelves”.  I identified.  I house sat for another Africa in Words writer recently,… Read More ›

• Winning films from African Movie Awards 2013

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

  

  by AiW guest Phoenix Fry On 20 April 2013 the African Movie Awards took place at “a glittering ceremony” in Yenagoa, southern Nigeria. You can read elsewhere about the glitz and the glitches – this blog focuses on the films… Read More ›

• Q&A: Colleen Higgs – publisher Modjaji Books

  By Katie Reid on 29 July , 2013 • ( 13 )

  

  Colleen Higgs is the publisher and passionate, dynamic force behind Modjaji Books, a small independent press based in Cape Town, South Africa. Inspired by Modjadji, the Rain Queen of Limpopo, a powerful female force for good, growth, new life, and… Read More ›

• ‘Love is Power or Something Like That’ by A. Igoni Barrett – review

  By Kate Wallis on 24 July , 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  It feels exceptionally hard in a short review to do justice to the layers of story, character and life in A. Igoni Barrett’s second collection of short stories Love is Power or Something Like That.  The characters that people these stories range across generation… Read More ›

• The Small Publishers’ Catalogue 2013

  By Katie Reid on 18 July , 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  This year sees the new edition of Modjaji Books’ Small Publishers’ Catalogue, which updates the first edition of 2010. Publishing Perspectives have called this one ‘a beauty’, and indeed it is, in concept and design. The print copy is, again, a lovely size, great… Read More ›

• Q&A: Travel writer, journalist and publisher Pelu Awofeso

  By Rebecca Jones on 15 July , 2013 • ( 13 )

  

  Pelu Awofeso is a travel writer, journalist and publishing entrepreneur based in Lagos, Nigeria. For over ten years Pelu has been travelling across Nigeria and publishing travel writing in newspapers in Nigeria and beyond, and in his own travel books. His… Read More ›

• Blogging the Caine Prize: Thinking Through Chinelo Okparanta’s ‘America’

  By Africa in Words Guest on 12 July , 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  On Monday Tope Folarin’s ‘Miracle’ was announced as the winner of the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing. Building up to this announcement the five shortlisted writers spent a week in the UK, talking about their writing in the media… Read More ›

• Sharing the Black Atlantic: Afromodern@Tate and beyond

  By C E Hastings on 8 July , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  The Afromodern exhibit at Tate Liverpool was innovative, brought together work from collections and collectors around the world, and closed several years ago. I remember particularly clearly the impact of the striking work of Kara Walker. However, unlike other exhibitions,… Read More ›

• Q&A: Novelist, poet and literary scholar Mukoma wa Ngugi

  By Kate Wallis on 6 July , 2013 • ( 8 )

  

  Mukoma wa Ngugi, son of world renowned African writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o, is currently in London with his father for a public conversation at the Africa Writes festival, and the launch of his new crime fiction novel Black Star Nairobi…. Read More ›

• The 5th European Conference on African Studies, Lisbon – review

  By Rebecca Jones on 4 July , 2013 • ( 7 )

  

  The 5th annual European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) was held on June 26-29 this year in sunny Lisbon. A biannual affair, ECAS is the big European Africanist jamboree, organised by AEGIS (the Africa-Europe Group for Inter-disciplinary Studies) and was… Read More ›

• Africa in Words at Africa Writes 2013

  By Kate Wallis on 3 July , 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  This weekend all three editors of Africa in Words will be at Africa Writes 2013 in London – an African literature and book festival hosted by the Royal African Society. The festival is hosting some of the most exciting names… Read More ›

• ‘Ghana Must Go’ by Taiye Selasi – review

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 June , 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  AiW Guest Emylia Hall One of my favourite quotes on the subject of the craft of writing comes from the Pulitzer Prize-winner, Katherine Anne Porter: ‘Get so well acquainted with your characters that they live and grow in your imagination exactly… Read More ›

• CFP: Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry

  By Africa in Words on 26 June , 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry – ‘New Topographies of the Postcolonial’ CALL FOR PAPERS (30th September 2012) “Dear Colleague, At a time when disciplines are scrambling to keep up with both the accelerations and upheavals of a global informational… Read More ›

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