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• CFP: 14th Annual Researching Africa Day Graduate Workshop, ‘Researching Africa: The Flow of Research?’

  By Katie Reid on 29 January , 2013 • ( 0 )

  The RAS have just circulated a CFP on behalf of the 14th Annual Researching Africa Day Workshop, to be held on Saturday, 23rd February 2013, at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Abstracts are due by January 31, 2013. (Further details below). The title of this year’s workshop… Read More ›

• Tate: ‘Across the Board’ – modern and contemporary African art and related programme in Africa

  By Katie Reid on 28 January , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Tate are currently running a two-year project on African Art and its representation, with new acquisitions of modern and contemporary African art and a related programme in Africa. “The project invites local and international audiences to engage with artists, curators and… Read More ›

• ASAUK12: the legacy

  By Africa in Words Guest on 23 January , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW guest Helen Cousins. 2012 was the year of ‘legacy’ – a notion popularised, of course, by the London 2012 Olympics. Four months on from the African Studies Association UK conference, I want to reflect on my personal ‘legacy’ from… Read More ›

• Reflections on the African Studies Association UK conference, University of Leeds, September 2012

  By Rebecca Jones on 18 January , 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  AiW Guest Rebecca Jones.  2012’s ASAUK conference at the University of Leeds was my first ever ASAUK conference, and I went anticipating some interesting panels on African literature, hoping to meet fellow scholars of Yoruba, and, to be honest, expecting a… Read More ›

• African Studies Association of the UK Biennial Conference, 6-8th September 2012, University of Leeds

  By Katie Reid & Kate Haines on 17 January , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Last Autumn we – Katie and Kate – attended the African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) biennial conference, where we co-convened two panels under the rubric ‘The “post-millennial context” and African writing in English: Writing, production and reception since… Read More ›

• Review: William Kentridge – I am not me, the horse is not mine. (@ Tate Modern, until Jan 20.)

  By Katie Reid on 14 January , 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  For those who can get to the Tanks at Tate Modern, there is still just time to catch South African artist William Kentridge’s I am not me, the horse is not mine (2008) which closes on Jan 20th. This eight-channel video… Read More ›

• CFP: Postcolonial Text – Special Issue: Situating Postcolonial Trauma Studies. Saadi Nikro (Guest Editor)

  By Katie Reid on 3 January , 2013 • ( 0 )

  Postcolonial Text is an open access, fully online journal, internationally peer-reviewed and accessible to a global audience. A quarterly journal, it is affiliated with the Open Humanities Press (OHP). The editors seek submissions for a special issue on postcolonial trauma studies…. Read More ›

• Bookings open: History, Postcolonialism and Tradition – Third Biennial Conference of the Postcolonial Studies Association

  By Katie Reid on 3 January , 2013 • ( 0 )

  History, Postcolonialism and Tradition Third Biennial Conference of the Postcolonial Studies Association 12-13 September 2013. Kingston University. Bookings have now opened for the Postcolonial Studies Association Conference, History, Postcolonialism and Tradition taking place on the 12 – 13 September 2013 at Penrhyn… Read More ›

• CFP: Transatlantic Africas – Special Issue of Matatu: Journal for African Literature and Society

  By Katie Reid on 3 January , 2013 • ( 0 )

  Proposals for papers/abstracts should reach the editors by 1 April, 2013. The editors of Matatu: Journal for African Literature and Society invite contributions for a special issue on “Transatlantic Africa” to be published in 2014. The special issue will focus on recent… Read More ›

• CFP: 4th Global Conference – Space and Place.

  By Katie Reid on 2 January , 2013 • ( 0 )

  Monday 9th September – Thursday 12th September 2013 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 22nd March 2013. Call for Presentations Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience… Read More ›

• CFP: Sites of Memory – an interdisciplinary postgraduate-led conference and interactive workshop at the University of Birmingham

  By Katie Reid on 19 December , 2012 • ( 0 )

  SITES OF MEMORY – Friday 22 February 2013 Call for Papers – deadline 7th January 2013 How is memory related to physical space, objects and texts? How do different disciplines conceptualise memory? How do we research and write about memory? “Sites of Memory”… Read More ›

• CFP: European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 2013)

  By Nara Improta on 17 December , 2012 • ( 0 )

  The fifth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 2013) will take place at the ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal, from 26 to 28 June 2013. It will be organized by Centro de Estudos Africanos – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Centre for African… Read More ›

• Genre and the New Geographies of World Literature: A look at Jungle Jim’s “South African Sci-Fi” issue

  By Stephanie Santana on 7 December , 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  AiW Guest Stephanie Bosch Santana.  The cover of Jungle Jim issue no. 16, the magazine’s “South African Sci-fi” edition, depicts Zulu warriors casting tiny, toothpick-like spears at the Goliath of an alien bearing down on them. Styled after the pulp magazines… Read More ›

• From Roswell to Rosebank – South African SF and Jungle Jim

  By Africa in Words Guest on 6 December , 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  AiW Guest Graham Riach. On the front cover of issue 16 of Jungle Jim,a starry sky hangs low over two Zulu tribesmen, assegais held high behind their shields. Looming towards them is a muscle-bound giant with an insectoid robotic head,… Read More ›

• ‘Without warning, everything became possible’: pulp fiction and the rise of Jungle Jim

  By Africa in Words Guest on 5 December , 2012 • ( 12 )

  AiW Guest Alexander Howard.  1. As the author and editor Jenna Bass points out in the first instalment of her recent interview with Katie Reid of Africa in Words, the bi-monthly fiction magazine Jungle Jim arose out of a shared desire… Read More ›

• Jim in the Urban Jungle – South African print culture and Jungle Jim

  By Africa in Words Guest on 4 December , 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  AiW Guest Ed Charlton.  As an intervention into the formal space of South African print culture, Jungle Jim is certainly daring and distinctive. If not an entirely unique mode of literary production, its pulp ’zine format is, nonetheless, a marked… Read More ›

• Concept-driven African pulp fiction – extracts from Jungle Jim magazine

  By Katie Reid on 30 November , 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Has having heard so much about the African pulp fiction mag Jungle Jim from its co-creator and editor, Jenna Bass (part I of our interview is here), left you wanting, wondering what might be lurking between its distinctive blue and red covers? How the… Read More ›

• African Book Festival, London, 26th-27th October 2012

  By Africa in Words Guest on 27 November , 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  AiW Guest Kate Nkanza. When I first heard about the African Book Festival, I was so excited that I paid for my pass for two days straight away.

• Q&A: (Pt 2) Jenna Bass – Editor and co-founder of African pulp fiction magazine Jungle Jim.

  By Katie Reid on 20 November , 2012 • ( 6 )

  

  (Click here for part I.) This, part II of Katie’s interview with Jenna Bass at Jungle Jim, takes us further into the mag, opening up questions of genre – popular, pulp and science-fiction in Africa and South Africa – plus more on the… Read More ›

• Q&A: (Pt 1) Jenna Bass – Editor and co-founder of African pulp fiction magazine Jungle Jim.

  By Katie Reid on 13 November , 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  (Part 2 of this interview is here…) Genre fiction and the rise of African sci-fi; the establishment of literary networks across the continent; the status of independent publishing and bookselling, as well as the significance of DIY ethics and aesthetics in… Read More ›

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