African mythology

Caine Prize 2020: Fiction masquerading as nonfiction: A Review of Chikodili Emelumadu’s “What to do When Your Child Brings Home a Mami Wata”

By JoannaWoods on 17 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

AiW Note: AiW’s annual review series of what is now the AKO Caine Prize is back. We’ve been talking about prize culture for a long time at Africa in Words; Kate Wallis’s post on our joining the Caine Prize “blogathon” back in… Read More ›

Exhibition: Toyin Ojih Odutola at Barbican, London (Until 26 July)

By Africa in Words on 19 February , 2020 • ( 0 )

Toyin Ojih Odutola “A Countervailing Theory” Open now, and until 26 July 2020 Barbican Centre, London The first-ever UK exhibition by Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, this epic cycle of new work will explore an imagined ancient myth, with an… Read More ›

‘Graduating to genre’: Marlon James in person and on the page

By Chelsea Haith on 7 March , 2019 • ( 0 )

“What does it mean when you don’t think you have a mythology?” Marlon James is increasingly preoccupied by legacy. “I return to Greek tragedy before every book I write. I look for answers and Greek tragedy provides them. Or, better… Read More ›

Call For Papers: Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects in African History

By Africa in Words on 21 December , 2014 • ( 0 )

Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects in African History: Rethinking Historical Evidence and its Interpretation University of Birmingham, UK 12 – 14 November 2015 What types of evidence, data, and sources can we use to expand knowledge of the African past?… Read More ›