After 15 years, Lake of Stars Festival returns this year in an exciting new format: Lake of Stars Discovery. The three-day celebration will take place in Kachere Kastle, 27-29 September. Located in the Nkhata Bay district, northern Malawi, Kachere Kastle is a… Read More ›
The Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) invites applications for its Fifth Writing Semester, which will run from 3 February to 31 May 2020. Fellowships are open to any field of expertise. Previous fellows have included academics, novelists, scientists, poets,… Read More ›
‘Another World? East Africa and the Global 1960s’ Week-Long Collaborative Archives Workshop Nairobi, 17-23 October 2019 ‘Another World? East Africa and the Global 1960s’ is funded by the Leverhulme Trust and will run from 1 September 2018 to 31 August… Read More ›
Hargeysa International Book Fair Academic Writing Workshop African Literature and Cultural Production in the 21st Century 15-18 July 2019 The Hargeysa International Book Fair, in collaboration with the journal Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies and the Universities of Bristol… Read More ›
Africa in Words is recruiting volunteers to join our small, friendly and entirely voluntary team. We are recruiting for our Reviews section. Africa in Words has an average of 6500 readers each month from over 100 countries. The blog’s Reviews… Read More ›
IFE INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES Theme: KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY: SCHOLARSHIP, TEACHING AND SERVICE July 21 – August 3, 2019 Ife Institute of Advanced Studies offers an international platform for nurturing a new generation of scholars. The summer institute is currently its… Read More ›
Free Fiction & Creative Writing Course: Write your World Bristolian, African & Caribbean Literature Fully funded by the University of Bristol, this 8-week course requires you to have no previous qualifications. Write your World with Billy Kahora The short story… Read More ›
Africa in Words is recruiting volunteers to join our small, tight-knit and entirely voluntary team. We are recruiting for our Reviews section, with the potential for multiple Associate Editorial positions.
The University of Warwick – English and Comparative Literary Studies – invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on a Leverhulme-funded research project: “World Literature and Commodity Frontiers: The Ecology of the ‘long’ 20th Century.” This Postdoctoral Research Fellow position… Read More ›
Annual AMLA Fellowship 15 August – 30 November 2018 Have you recently set up or are you thinking of setting up a new platform that promotes African literature? Are you employed in a recently established literary and cultural initiative? Would… Read More ›
You are invited to participate in the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes’ First Africa Humanities Workshop January 3rd – 18th, 2019 Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia CHCI is proud to announce Addis 2019, a two-week workshop held at Addis Ababa University… Read More ›
The team at Afrikult are looking for educators, activists, academics, artists and writers to join us for a trial working group session that will discuss the uniformity of the current English literature curriculum at secondary school level in England, with… Read More ›
We are delighted to announce that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: Social Sciences: MacMillan Center at Yale University is offering Postdoctoral Fellowships in African Studies (Social Sciences and Humanities) The Council on African Studies at the Whitney and Betty… Read More ›
Africa in Words is recruiting a volunteer to join our team as Managing Editor. Africa in Words has an average of 7,000 readers each month from over 100 countries, with our largest readerships based in the UK, US, South Africa… Read More ›
Africa in Words is recruiting a volunteer to join our team as a Reviews Editor. Africa in Words has an average of 6500 readers each month from over 100 countries, with our largest readerships based in the UK, US, South… Read More ›
The African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK) invite applications to attend a writing workshop for early career scholars to be held at the ASAUK Conference, University of Sussex 9-11th September 2014. Deadline for receipt of applications: 5pm, 6 June… Read More ›
