AiW note: Rebecca Jones was at the 2014 Africa Writes Festival in London. We republish her coverage of the African & Diaspora Travel Writing panel here as part of our Africa Writes #PastAndPresent weekender, anticipating the online conversations of the… Read More ›
Postcolonialism in Interdisciplinary Perspective. Wednesday 17th of May 2017 The Danford Room, Dept. of African Studies and Anthropology, Second Floor, Arts Building, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT 9:00 – 9:30 Registration/ Tea and Coffee (Fage Library) 9:30 – 9:45 Welcome… 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 ›
AiW guests: Janet Remmington and Nicklas Hållén Typically Africa has been framed as a destination, not source, of travellers. Also it has been taken to be the subject, not origin, of texts. Travel and movement of Africans are too often… Read More ›
Opening a panel on travel writing at the Royal Africa Society’s Africa Writes festival in London, panel chair Fatimah Kelleher observed that travel writing has often been a narrow genre in the past, dominated by Western perspectives on the world…. Read More ›
These are extremely interesting times for travel writing as a genre; a number of online- and print-based travel projects have been sprung up over recent years, all focusing on Africans travelling within Africa – some within their own countries, and… Read More ›
