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• Genre, dystopia and the ‘African’ novel

  By C E Hastings on 7 November , 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  Recent discussions on H-Net literature and History logs have (re)debated the idea of ‘African’ literature. Labeling and pigeon-holing books clearly has advantages – although I hope I am not the only one who has moved a book from crime back… Read More ›

• Now We Are One

  By Africa in Words on 2 November , 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  Professor Steph Newell, University of Sussex, President of the African Studies Association of the UK, joined AiW contributors and founders to celebrate AiW’s first birthday(!!): ‘Right from the start, a year ago, Africa in Words has captured the imaginations of… Read More ›

• CFP: Saharan Crossroads: Views from the Desert-Edge

  By Nara Improta on 27 October , 2012 • ( 0 )

  An AIMS-WARA Conference, in collaboration with the CRASC 22-24 Juin 2013 – Ghardaïa, Algeria This conference is part of a series of activities organized by the West African Research Association (WARA) and the American Institute of Maghribi Studies (AIMS) aimed… Read More ›

• Blog: Bookshy Books

  By Nara Improta on 26 October , 2012 • ( 1 )

  Hi folks, just to let you know, browsing around I found this blog: http://bookshybooks.blogspot.co.uk/ It is very interesting! I think it is worth to have a look. XxN

• Africa in Motion – Scotland African Film Festival: 25 October – 2 November.

  By Katie Reid on 10 October , 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  More dates for your film diary: As well as Film Africa 2012 (see Jenny Greenshields’ AiW post on Film Africa here),  there’s Africa in Motion – in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

• Film Africa 2012 : November 1-11

  By jennygreenshields on 8 October , 2012 • ( 8 )

  

  Dates for your diary… “Film Africa, the UK’s largest annual festival of African cinema and culture, is back in November 2012 with 10 days of 70 amazing African films, 35 leading filmmakers offering Q&As, free professional workshops, and 8 African… Read More ›

• What’s On: African Book Festival, London

  By Kate Wallis on 7 October , 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Just wanted to share information about the ‘African Book Festival’ happening in London at the end of the month.  It is taking place over Friday 26th and Saturday 27th October at the Free Word Centre in Farringdon.

• Africa Express, London, September 8th 2012

  By Africa in Words Guest on 28 September , 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  AiW Guest Anthony Leaker. http://www.africaexpress.co.uk/ For those of you who can’t be bothered to read a long post here’s the conclusion: it was fantastic; you missed out; a genuinely once in a lifetime experience of incredible musicians and energised, inspiring, and… Read More ›

• Books for Reviews

  By Nara Improta on 27 September , 2012 • ( 0 )

  Itinerario, the journal of European expansion and global interaction (part of Cambridge University Press journals), is currently seeking reviewers for the titles listed below. If you are interested/willing to review these titles, reviews of 800-1000 words would be due to our office by… Read More ›

• Nick Barley on the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference at Open Book Festival, Cape Town

  By Katie Reid on 25 September , 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  Quick update on the previous posts about the Open Book Festival, Cape Town, hosting the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference with 3 events – Censorship Today – a keynote by author Keith Gray, chaired by Mervyn Sloman, the Director of Open… Read More ›

• CFP: African Literature Today: writing Africa in the short story

  By Nara Improta on 25 September , 2012 • ( 1 )

  Submissions should reach the Editor on or before January 31, 2013. The Editor, African Literature Today, invites articles for ALT 31: WRITING AFRICA IN THE SHORT STORY, described below: Arguably, the African novel came alive through Chinua Achebe’s classic, Things Fall Apart… Read More ›

• CFA: The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme

  By Nara Improta on 23 September , 2012 • ( 0 )

  The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme – call for applications Grant Date: 2012-11-02 The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library is now accepting grant applications for the next round of funding. Detailed information on the timetable, criteria, eligibility and procedures for… Read More ›

• CFP: Religious Diversity in Africa and Asia: Discourses and Realities

  By Nara Improta on 21 September , 2012 • ( 0 )

  Chapters on “Religious Diversity in Africa and Asia: Discourses and Realities”–an edited volume of collected essays in the BANDUNG 55 book series RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN AFRICA AND ASIA: Discourses and realities

• Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets

  By Nara Improta on 19 September , 2012 • ( 0 )

  The submission period is currently open until Nov. 15. It costs nothing to enter! To read how to submit to the prize, click here or follow the guidelines below

• CFP: The “Soul” of W.E.B. DuBois: Fifty Years Later –NeMLA CFP

  By Nara Improta on 19 September , 2012 • ( 0 )

  Location:    Massachusetts, United States Call for Papers Date:    30 Sept 2012 (!) The year 2013 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of W.E.B. DuBois’ death. As the premier historian, sociologist, and civil rights activist of the twentieth century, DuBois certainly left… Read More ›

• CFP: 2013 North Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa

  By Nara Improta on 19 September , 2012 • ( 0 )

  This is the second call for papers and discussants for the eleventh North Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa (NEWSA).  We encourage scholars from all disciplines who are currently working on southern Africa (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South… Read More ›

• More – Open Book Literary Festival, Cape Town, and the World Writers’ Conference

  By Katie Reid on 17 September , 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  Further to the previous post, other events joining ‘Censorship Today’ as part of the World Writers’ Conference at Open Book, Cape Town:  Excited to see that Njabulo Ndebele and Antjie Krog will be in discussion – ‘Should Literature be Political’, 20 September… Read More ›

• The Open Book Literary Festival, Cape Town, hosts the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference: ‘Censorship Today’

  By Katie Reid on 11 September , 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  This year’s Open Book – 20-24 September – builds on the success of last year’s festival, an event which, for many, allowed a  space in Cape Town that hadn’t been available before, of engaged debate, talks, and response, and of exchange. Thank you… Read More ›

• Kwani? Manuscript Project

  By Kate Wallis on 3 September , 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  Since March of this year, I’ve been working with Billy Kahora at Kwani Trust as Associate Editor on a new literary prize for unpublished fiction manuscripts.  Offering cash prizes totaling 525,000 Kenyan Shillings, the Kwani? Manuscript Project calls for the submission… Read More ›

• The country Africa that we imagine in Brazil

  By Nara Improta on 22 August , 2012 • ( 10 )

  Read this post in Portuguese in África em Palavras  Since I am spending some time in my beloved country (Brazil), I had decided to post about some Africa-related event in Brazil. As you know, Brazil was on the other side… Read More ›

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