AiW Guest: Thulani Angoma-Mzini There is a silence, or perhaps a deafness, that the lay man (and particularly the cis-gendered heterosexual man) indulges in when it comes to bodies gendered differently to theirs. The collection of essays titled Living While… Read More ›
African Feminisms (Afems) 2019 Theorising from the Epicentres of our Agency Wits University 5-7 September 2019 The third edition of the African Feminisms (Afems) conference will happen from the 5-7 September 2019 at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, in… Read More ›
Call for Submissions Ake Review 2017 deadline: 31 August 2017 The Ake Arts and Book Festival is calling for submissions to the 2017 edition of our annual journal, Ake Review. This 5th Edition is themed This F-Word and will focus… Read More ›
‘Six Mountains on her back’ (Re) thinking African Feminisms Colloquium 2017 Rhodes University 21-22 July 2017 https://findingafricaseminar.wordpress.com African feminisms have, since their inception over a century ago, been grounded in inclusive and intersectional discourses which seek to challenge and unravel… Read More ›
Finding Africa 2016/17 (UK) African Feminisms Call for Papers African feminisms have, from the beginning, been grounded in an inclusive and intersectional discourse which seeks to challenge and unravel patriarchal, political, existential, and philosophical imbalances in society. As such they… Read More ›
CFP: African and Diasporic Women’s Literature: Transitions, Transformations and Transnationalism WAGADU special issue Deadline for abstracts: 27 September 2016 With the new wave of African and African Diasporic women writers, the transnational sphere has enlarged to encompass voices that were… Read More ›
I’m delighted to introduce this post from Africa in Words Guest author, Louise Müller for the ‘African classics’ series. As Nara discussed last week, this series aims to give a fresh or alternative insight, giving our readers a chance to… Read More ›
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