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• Golden Baobab Prize

  By Africa in Words on 1 June , 2012 • ( 1 )

  Email we received: Dear Africa in Words, It’s that time of the year again! Golden Baobab is excited to announce the call for submissions for its annual Golden Baobab Prize. Our literary award invites entries of unpublished African-inspired stories written… Read More ›

• CFP – Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana

  By Nara Improta on 1 June , 2012 • ( 0 )

  Hi folks, I got this from a history list that I subscribe. I know it is not literature, but the borderline between these two disciplines are blurry and historians are accepting this more and more. XxN   The editors of Transactions of… Read More ›

• CFP – What is Africa to me now? (July 15th)

  By Katie Reid on 1 June , 2012 • ( 0 )

  What is Africa to me now? The continent and its literary diasporas International conference University of Liège, Belgium, 21-23 March 2013

• Last film in Film4’s African Season

  By Katie Reid on 31 May , 2012 • ( 1 )

  Last film in Film4’s African Season – celebrating contemporary African filmmakers – tonight, 31st May. Viva Riva! 11.05pm. Film4. “Rival hustlers hustle for black market gasoline and the affections of the same woman in this stylish action drama from Congolese writer-director… Read More ›

• Hard data on our (soft) heads: the Lagosian intellectual network database

  By Nara Improta on 30 May , 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Maybe it is because I am married to a sociologist, or it is a kind of OCD, I am not so sure why, but I decided to organise my primary sources in a database. And, what is worse, now I am… Read More ›

• Willem Boshoff – artist’s talk

  By Katie Reid on 24 May , 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Thanks to Evelyn Owen and her blog African Art in London for the heads-up for Willem Boshoff at the Tate Modern last week – a highly charismatic, interesting artist’s talk, laced with Boshoff’s characteristic humour – from one of South… Read More ›

• Introducing Material Books

  By Kate Wallis on 11 May , 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  My next few posts on ‘Africa in Words’ are going to be focused on things I’ve been up to ‘professionally’, rather than my ‘research’ – although the two have some nicely blurred lines and intersections.  This is partly because I… Read More ›

• Professor Micere Githae Mugo: Public Lecture at the University of Nairobi

  By Kate Wallis on 1 May , 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  Last month I was lucky enough to catch Micere Mugo’s public lecture and book launch at the University of Nairobi.  In an attempt to share some more informal thoughts and reflections, I just wanted to post about a couple of… Read More ›

• Tiwani – A new African art gallery in London

  By jennygreenshields on 29 April , 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  The recently-opened Tiwani Contemporary gallery brings London its first permanent exhibition space exclusively for contemporary African art.  The artists exhibited to date have been predominantly Nigerian, but the curators plan to expand the scope of the collection to incorporate visual… Read More ›

• Dichotomous traps (again!)

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

  Hi folks, first, I want to thank you again for your replies to my shout for help in the format of a post (april 3rd). Your suggestions kept the ‘thinking machine’ running and, eventually, I came with a solution for… Read More ›

• Shakespeare in IsiXhosa, Afrikaans, Swahili, Juba Arabic, Shona and Yoruba

  By Katie Reid on 12 April , 2012 • ( 3 )

  Really excited by this – opens next weekend. Productions from South Africa, Kenya, South Sudan, Zimbabwe and Nigeria come to the UK to perform as part of the ‘Globe to Globe’ festival at the Shakespeare’s Globe in London, each presenting… Read More ›

• Seminar: The African Writers Series @ 50

  By Katie Reid on 4 April , 2012 • ( 2 )

  A seminar on African writing, on the 50th anniversary of the AWS: part of the Oxford Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar Series (see below for the aim of the Series as a whole). Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar, University of… Read More ›

• Modernity vs tradition trap – help!

  By Nara Improta on 3 April , 2012 • ( 4 )

  Hi girls (and boys, if any is reading this) I have some concerns about my work that I would love to share with you and listen (read, better) any comments/suggestions you may have. As you know, I am currently studying… Read More ›

• Brief Thoughts on Othering

  By Vickie O-B on 2 April , 2012 • ( 6 )

  The Oppression-Resistance Binary: Authenticity of Representation in Two Post-Colonial Novels Introduction This is an attempt to examine how the inferior representation of another establishes the oppression of that other. For this study, I conduct a discourse analysis of two post-colonial novels,… Read More ›

• Cinema on the ground in Tanzania

  By Katie Reid on 25 March , 2012 • ( 0 )

  A documentary short by Christiane Buchmann – a name to watch for – Sinema Leo. This fantastic short, about Elisonguo Kiwia’s dream to show film and create a film industry in Tanzania armed with a van and a petrol powered… Read More ›

• Inaugural African Popular Cultures Workshop, Sussex, April 16 (2012)

  By Katie Reid on 11 March , 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  As if you are not already aware from a veritable bombardment of email publicity, or as if I don’t already know you are not able to attend (sniff) some details of a workshop on the 16th April, PLUS NOTICE OF… Read More ›

• Art Exhibition – UNITY by One-Room Shack

  By Katie Reid on 29 February , 2012 • ( 0 )

  Nigerian artist, and friend, Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, has an exhibition at the Watermans Art Centre in London.  Smooth and Emeka Ogboh are conceptual artists from Nigeria who work collaboratively as One-Room Shack. Watermans is holding a Festival of groundbreaking installations exploring… Read More ›

• Looking Both Ways – 4 week course in modern and contemporary art from Africa at Tate Modern

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

  

  Intrigued by Tate Modern’s 4 week course, ‘Looking Both Ways: An Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Art from Africa’, being offered in March: “This course aims to introduce the field through four sessions that consider the careers of African artists… Read More ›

• Conflict, Memory and Reconciliation: Bridging Past, Present and Future, SIT and National University of Rwanda, 10-13th January, Kigali

  By Kate Wallis on 10 February , 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  I attended this conference in Kigali last month, and just wanted to share a few thoughts and highlights from it. In his introduction one of the two keynote speakers, Professor Anastase Shyaka, highlighted that Rwanda is an evidence-base for research… Read More ›

• CFP: Ethnographic Reflections on Conducting Fieldwork in Contemporary Urban Africa

  By Nara Improta on 6 February , 2012 • ( 0 )

  Hi folks, maybe this could be a chapter of your thesis? Deadline 15 march XxN CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EDITED BOOK: Writing Fieldnotes on the Street: Ethnographic Reflections on Conducting Fieldwork in Contemporary Urban Africa Editors: Anna Jacobsen (Washington University… Read More ›

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