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• CFP: Remembering Chinua Achebe

  By Africa in Words on 1 May , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  With the passing off on March 22, 2013 of Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian prolific writer, one has to admit that the founding father of African literature has forsaken his pen forever. While the reference that Achebe is beheld as the… Read More ›

• Gilroy’s Black Atlantic: Samba, Jazz and Sambajazz in Brazil and the Black Atlantic.

  By Africa in Words Guest on 28 April , 2013 • ( 7 )

  

  This post is part of the series Gilroy’s Black Atlantic. Click here to read the first post of the series and here to read the third. AiW Guest Gabriel Improta I’m a musician and a social scientist from Rio de… Read More ›

• CFP: Francophone Postcolonial Studies and Book Culture (deadline June 10)

  By Africa in Words on 24 April , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies: Annual Conference 2013 Francophone Postcolonial Studies and Book Culture 22-23 November 2013 Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London The deadline for receipt of abstracts is: 10 June 2013 Amid rapid changes in technologies of… Read More ›

• Global and Imperial History Network PG and Early Career Workshop, 30 May 2013.

  By Africa in Words on 24 April , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The Global and Imperial History Network, Thursday 30 May 2013. The Department of History at the University of Exeter will be hosting a workshop on Thursday 30 May 2013 for postgraduate students and early careers researchers who are interested in… Read More ›

• The Chimurenga Chronic, now-now – first print issue of pan-African gazette

  By Katie Reid & Kate Haines on 22 April , 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  Now available from Chimurenga [from the Shona word for “revolutionary struggle”]: the CHRONIC – a new pan-African quarterly print gazette, with supplementary books review magazine CHRONIC BOOKS – see below for a preview of Billy Kahora‘s article  on the Nairobi noir. The first issue takes… Read More ›

• Achebe remembered: thanks for your wahala*

  By C E Hastings on 18 April , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Wahala: OED ‘trouble, affliction, calamity’ (from the OUP Blog) The death of Achebe has seen a wide range of tributes: reprints of interviews, quotes, images but also reflections and memories from those who knew this great writer, and writers influenced… Read More ›

• 20 years of Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic

  By Nara Improta on 15 April , 2013 • ( 12 )

  

  Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1993. This year, Gilroy’s Black Atlantic completed twenty years of its publication. This book has been used by many scholars in history, anthropology, literature and sociology, and… Read More ›

• Travels in Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Transwonderland

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

  

  AiW Guest Steve Haines Working in the world of ‘international development’ I’m easily tempted to measure a country by metrics and indices.  What interests me is the percentage of the population with access to safe drinking water, the primary school… Read More ›

• ‘A Universal Archive – William Kentridge as printmaker’: touring exhibition, available until Spring/Summer 2014.

  By Katie Reid on 10 April , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The Hayward/South Bank are holding a major, touring exhibition of South African artist William Kentridge’s work, with its provocative title, ‘A Universal Archive’, promising a trove-like collection of Kentridge’s innovative prints. With dates ranging from 1988 to new work, as… Read More ›

• Cameron Platter’s ‘Everyday Apocalypse’ @ Jack Bell Gallery, until April 20.

  By Katie Reid on 10 April , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Jack Bell Gallery 27 March – 20 April 2013 Artist’s Page (jackbellgallery.com) Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present Cameron Platter’s Everyday Apocalypse, the artist’s first exhibition in the UK.

• Review: Sowei Mask: Spirit of Sierra Leone at the British Museum

  By Nara Improta and Katie Reid on 8 April , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  The exhibit is centred around one Sierra Leonean mask, a ‘sowei’ mask of the all-female Sande societies, worn at ritual public celebrations and ceremonies by the societies’ high officials when masquerading as the spirit of the Sande as ndoli jowei (‘the… Read More ›

• CFP: ‘Displacements. Forced Migration and the Arts’, Aarhus/Denmark 3-5 October 2013 (deadline 15 April)

  By Katie Reid on 6 April , 2013 • ( 0 )

  Call for Papers Deadline for proposals: 15 April contact: displacements2013@hum.au.dk website: http://conferences.au.dk/displacements/ Displacements: Forced Migration and the Arts Aarhus University, Denmark October 3-5, 2013 Displacement is and has always been one of the fundamental forms of human existence. Throughout history and all over… Read More ›

• Sites of Memory, University of Birmingham, 17 February 2013

  By Rebecca Jones on 2 April , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest Rebecca Jones Is memory imagination or plagiarism? Are artists curators or creators of memory? Is memory determined by audience? Do we remember or embroider? – these were some of the questions we sought to explore in a one-day… Read More ›

• Extended CFP: ‘Going Local: African Texts and Cultures’, University of Birmingham (due May 10)

  By Africa in Words on 30 March , 2013 • ( 0 )

  PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATES: Conference date is Monday 24th June 2013, call for papers closes Friday 10th May 2013. Going Local: African Texts and Cultures. A postgraduate-led conference and workshop at the University of Birmingham, Monday 27th May 2013. Monday… Read More ›

• The Book in Africa: A Day Symposium

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 March , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest Ruth Bush This lively one day event took place in London at Senate House on 20 October 2012, was led by Dr Caroline Davis (Oxford Brookes) and brought together a number of researchers working in the broad area of… Read More ›

• Notes from the Kwani? Literary Festival

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

  

  AiW Guest Dzekashu MacViban In December 2012, I travelled to Nairobi for the 2012 Kwani? Litfest as part of the Goethe Institut’s pan-African exchange programme ‘Moving Africa’. Of the various panels and readings I attended four stood out: our Moving… Read More ›

• South Sudan: There is a Country – coming in April

  By Nara Improta on 19 March , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

• Review: 100% Jacob Zuma

  By Africa in Words Guest on 14 March , 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  AiW Guest Emily Hogg and Benjamin Poore. In 2006 The New York Times reported that Jacob Zuma’s defence during his trial for rape was rooted in claims he made about the traditions and customs of Zulu culture. The Times wrote: “His… Read More ›

• Sarah Forbes Bonetta: biography, migration and the historical agenda

  By C E Hastings on 11 March , 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  I gave a paper last year debating the use of Sarah Forbes Bonetta’s biography over time.  Sarah’s story reads like a novel: a young girl who was ‘adopted’ by Queen Victoria, after a traveller to West Africa brought her back… Read More ›

• Yari Yari Ntoaso: Continuing the Dialogue

  By Kate Wallis on 10 March , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Yari Yari Ntoaso: Continuing the Dialogue is a symposium of literature by women of African descent taking place in Accra, Ghana, May 16-19, 2013.  This free gathering will put writers, critics, and readers from across Africa, the USA, Europe, and the Caribbean in dialogue with… Read More ›

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