AiW Guest: Serah Kasembeli I had never crossed the border to the neighbouring Uganda, even though our home is very close to the Kenya-Uganda Busia border. The idea of crossing into what has always been there yet unexplored, resonated in many… Read More ›
British Academy
Q&A: Serah Kasembeli on Reading Student Protests from YouTube
AiW Guest: Tadiwa Madenga A few years ago, I started to feel like I was learning everything I knew from YouTube. It was exciting to find a free archive with endless live recordings from concerts, artists’ interviews, hair tutorials, and… Read More ›
Q&A: Tinashe Mushakavanhu on Reading Zimbabwe from Kampala
AiW Guest: Tadiwa Madenga Before I travelled to Kampala, I found myself shockingly motivated to finish writing an academic paper. I had just moved from Boston to Brooklyn for the summer, and in that transition, a once tedious essay felt… Read More ›
Event: Global Conflict and World Literatures, 20 January 2017, University of Bristol
Registration is now open for the second workshop in the series ‘Ethics, Affect and Responsibility: Global Citizenship and the Act of Reading’ which will take place from 10.30 a.m. – 5 p.m. on 20 January 2017 at the University of Bristol…. Read More ›
African Multilingualism Conference: Motivations, modalities, movement and meaning
BRITISH ACADEMY CONFERENCE African Multilingualism: Motivations, modalities, movement and meaning Tuesday 8 & Wednesday 9 September 2015, 9.30am – 5.00pm Venue: The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG Convenors: Professor Friederike Lüpke, SOAS, University of London, and… Read More ›