ASAUK Conference 2014 University of Sussex Tuesday 9th – Thursday 11th September Programme The conference programme is made up of an exciting range of panel discussions and keynote speeches. The full programme for the conference can be downloaded here. Highlights include: 9th September… Read More ›
Saturday 12th July found me seated in the conference auditorium of the British Library, expectantly awaiting the start of a panel entitled ‘Beyond the Novel: Developing Contemporary African Writing’. Comprising one of the many events scheduled at Africa Writes 2014,… Read More ›
A note of intro. from Africa in Words: Last year we took part in ‘Blogging the Caine Prize’ – a carnival of week-by-week blogging around the shortlist for the annual Caine Prize for African writing. While there is no ‘organised’ carnival… Read More ›
AiW Guest Rehab Abdelghany The 3rd African Popular Cultures Workshop hosted at the University of Sussex concluded with a roundtable that brought together six academics and creative writers, who research, write from and about different parts of the African continent…. Read More ›
At the end of March we – Katie and Kate – were lucky enough to be involved in organizing the third African Popular Cultures workshop at the University of Sussex. This collaboration between the Sussex Africa Centre PhD committee, tutors… Read More ›
The School of English and the Sussex Africa Centre Postgraduate Committee invite you to the 3rd African Popular Cultures Workshop at the University of Sussex Monday 31st March 2014, 11.00am – 6.30pm with Professor Karin Barber (University of Birmingham), Professor… Read More ›
Now available from Chimurenga [from the Shona word for “revolutionary struggle”]: the CHRONIC – a new pan-African quarterly print gazette, with supplementary books review magazine CHRONIC BOOKS – see below for a preview of Billy Kahora‘s article on the Nairobi noir. The first issue takes… Read More ›
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