Happy New Year! After a short break, we move through the changed circumstances, timelines and spaces of now, and catch up on our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ from the end of 2020 – news on AiW’s radar, collated from… Read More ›
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Call for Submissions: Visa Free Africa (Deadline: April 15)
You are invited to share your experiences of travelling across Africa for the Visa Free Africa Campaign! Are you a young African travelling across the continent? Have you experienced any challenges in acquiring a visa to another African country? This… Read More ›
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Genealogy Journal: ‘Global Black Movements’ (Deadline: 31 March)
The function and impact of global black movements have been scrutinized over generations by scholars and activists. Black movements of all forms and intent have risen up to challenge slavery, colonialism, global capitalism and the concurrent system of racial oppression…. Read More ›
Events: SCOLMA & ASAUK (Birmingham: 10th & 11th-13th September)
This week is an exciting week in Birmingham, UK, for those interested in African Studies scholarship! SCOLMA Annual Conference Things come together?: Literary archives from, in and for Africa Monday, 10 September 2018 University of Birmingham The day’s programme and… Read More ›
Call for Submissions: Nalubaale Review (Deadline: 30th September)
The Nalubaale Review is a literary magazine based in Uganda. It aims to publish the finest emerging writers in Uganda and all other African countries. The magazine is looking for new short stories, poems, dialogues, articles and papers based on… Read More ›
Call for Articles: African Literature Today
Call for Articles: African Literature Today Special Issue ‘African Returns in African Fiction’ This special issue will focus on literary texts by African writers in which the protagonist returns to his/her ‘original’ or ancestral ‘home’ in Africa from other parts of… Read More ›
CFP: Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, “Under Fire” section
Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies CALL for UNDER FIRE ARTICLES The post-millennium world has seen a rapid escalation of violent conflicts in the Middle East, West, Central and some areas of Southern Africa, and ongoing civil wars and human rights… Read More ›
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