SCOLMA Annual Conference 2020 Oun a ní la ń gbé l’árugẹ [i] – (It is the heritage we have that we must celebrate): Publishing, Collecting and Accessing African-language Materials Monday 8 June, 2020 SALT, Paul Webley Wing, SOAS, University of… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Abbi Bayliss Zaahida Nabagereka recently completed work on her doctoral thesis at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (SOAS) focusing on the politics of language and its impact on literature production in Uganda. Based… Read More ›
The British Library is currently advertising for a Chevening Fellow for the following project: Research on the British Library’s African-language printed books collections The successful candidate will research at least one of the following collections: Hausa, Swahili, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu,… Read More ›
At the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, on 5th-7th March, 2019, the organiser Wendy Belcher will be hosting a seminar on African language literature. Sixth Annual Seminar on African Language Literature While African… Read More ›
We are delighted to announce SCOLMA’s forthcoming conference: “Things come together?: literary archives from, in and for Africa” The conference will explore African literary archives, their creation, preservation, digitisation and use in research and teaching. African literature is multi-faceted and… Read More ›
Call for Applications kasahorow Writers’ Fellowship Deadline: 31 May 2017 THE PROGRAM What is the kasahorow Writers’ Fellowship? The kasahorow Writers’ Fellowship is a four-month program for writers. The program includes customized writing skills training and guidance to plan, write,… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Tope Salaudeen-Adegoke Beautiful Nubia, the stage name for Segun Akinlolu, is widely acclaimed by music critics as Nigeria’s foremost contemporary folklorist. He is an artist with a vibrant soul who combines the Yoruba traditional percussion with other modern… Read More ›
CfP: Public Service and Community Interpreting in Africa Workshop on 6 October 2017 in Freiburg, Germany deadline: 30 April 2017 On the 6 October 2017, the Institute of Multilingualism at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, will host a 1-day… Read More ›
WRITING ON LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT, VOLUME 1, AFRICA Vs ASIA The two continents Africa and Asia contains over 77% of the world’s population, at least over 80 percent of the world’s languages and cultures, and both have lately witnessed leaps… Read More ›
Jalada Mobile Literary & Arts Festival 3 – 31 March 2017 12 cities across East Africa Jalada Mobile Literary & Arts Festival is a hybrid between a traditional festival and a bus literary and art tour, covering 12 cities/towns… Read More ›
Call for Papers: Global Africa Month – the Ngugi Workshop Prof Adams Bodomo Workshop on Strategies for the Promotion of African Language Literature University of Vienna Global African Diaspora Studies (GADS) Research Platform And Department of African Studies May 2… Read More ›
Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire writes: I first came to know Kyomuhendo Ateenyi from his literary, epistolary and blogging practice at Makerere University. His poetry and political commentary published on university notice boards and a variety of blog platforms provided the metaphor… Read More ›
The online space offers important opportunities to develop resources for African-language documentation and learning, whether drawing on the power of apps and online games to make language learning fun, or on social media, online databases and crowdsourcing as tools to… Read More ›
AFRICAN TRAVEL WRITING ENCOUNTERS Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham Wednesday 9 March, 2016 This workshop invites scholars of travel writing by Africans, along with practitioners of travel writing, to come together to discuss the past, present… Read More ›
As part of our ongoing series on the ASAUK 2014 conference, Rebecca Jones reports on panels on African languages in literature and in the disciplines. Papers that discussed African languages could be found throughout the ASAUK 2014 conference – including panels on Swahili… Read More ›
AiW Guest Sara Marzagora. This post is the second in an occasional series of writer profiles, looking especially at those working in African languages. The first post in our series was on Akinwumi Isola. Mengistu Lemma (1928-1988) If you ask… Read More ›
The 5th annual European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) was held on June 26-29 this year in sunny Lisbon. A biannual affair, ECAS is the big European Africanist jamboree, organised by AEGIS (the Africa-Europe Group for Inter-disciplinary Studies) and was… Read More ›
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