We are delighted to announce this international conference (African Literature and the Press) which will inaugurate the Afrophonie week at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. The conference programme can be found here: https://africanreadingcultures.blogs.ilrt.org/fr/programme This conference is part of a larger project on ‘Popular print… Read More ›
Afrophone literatures
An Interview with Prof. Ernest Nneji Emenyonu on Pita Nwana’s Omenuko
AiW Guest: Kalapi Sen It is a truism in today’s world that ‘African literature’ covers a major portion of literary scholarship, included now on high-school syllabi as well as at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. And one name that has… Read More ›
Call for Submissions: The African Literary Hustle, New Orleans Review, Deadline: 31 December 2016
* The African Literary Hustle* Guest Editors: Mukoma wa Ngugi and Laura Murphy When African literature is published in the West, it is too often realist, in English, and always in the spirit of Chinua Achebe. But romance, science fiction, fantasy, epic, experimental… Read More ›
Winners Announcement for the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature
The Winners of the new Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature were announced today (17 NOVEMBER 2015). The prize has the express goal of recognizing writing in African languages and encouraging translation from, between and into African languages.
African Languages at ASAUK 2014
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 ›
Reminder – CFP open for African Studies Association UK 2014 Conference (deadline 25 April)
The ASAUK biennial conference will be held at the University of Sussex this year and will run from 2pm on Tuesday Sept 9th to 3.30 pm on Thursday 11th September 2014. The Sussex Africa Centre is scheduled for its official launch… Read More ›