AiW note: Our posts, running over 5 days this week, introduce the Keiskamma COVID-19 Resilience Tapestry through the place, the people – its makers – and their history. The ambitious tapestry, responding to the pandemic, is being made by the… Read More ›
AiW note: Yesterday, we published South African artist and photographer Terry Kurgan’s Words on the Times, an AiW Q&A set that offers a space for connection during the distancing measures necessitated by the coronavirus. In her responses, Kurgan discusses the copies… Read More ›
As we move through the changed circumstances, timelines and spaces of now, our round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar, collated from across our platforms – has moved to a monthly edition for April. Please be in touch… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Andrew van der Vlies Terry Kurgan is one of South Africa’s most accomplished and sophisticated theorists of her own photographic practice. Her projects, both studio-based and publicly engaged, have frequently explored the mediations of power relations at play… Read More ›
Join the Book Lounge & the Fugard Theatre Open Book Festival Cape Town, South Africa 5 – 9 September 2018 Open Book Festival at The Fugard Theatre is an annual literary festival in Cape Town, South Africa, the first of which… Read More ›
Tyburn Gallery is pleased to present INTERSECTION, a group exhibition including works by southern African artists Gabriel Choto (born in Harare, Zimbabwe), Gabrielle Kruger (born in Cape Town) and Neo Matloga (born in Limpopo province, South Africa). This summer, the group show… Read More ›
You are invited to submit papers for the conference: LIBERATION BEYOND THE NATION: COMPARISONS, INTERACTIONS AND METHODOLOGIES The conference is supported by the Journal of Southern African Studies and organised by the University of Oxford and the University of the Western… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Katarzyna Kubin This review of Stacy Hardy’s “Involution” by our regular Guest contributor, Katarzyna Kubin, is the penultimate of our series of the stories shortlisted for the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing, ahead of the announcement… Read More ›
AiW Guest Toni Stuart Africa in Words is thrilled to be able to share with you this audio-visual poem by Toni Stuart, an excerpt from her collection-in-progress Krotoa-Eva’s suite – a cape jazz poem in three movements. Toni Stuart is a… Read More ›
Event: Queer Feminist Film Festival (19th Jan, Cape Town) The African Gender Institute brings you an exciting event: the Queer Feminist Film Festival. We are proud to partner with Triangle Project, Bertha Movie House and OXFAM South Africa on this… Read More ›
The Book Lounge and the Fugard Theatre invite you to Open Book Festival 6 – 10 September 2017 LET THE READING BEGIN! The first announcement of the year is always a big moment for us. Finally we can share our… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Sana Goyal Edited excerpts from the Conversations in Bloomsbury event (March 10, 2017), held at SOAS, London, and which hosted Henrietta Rose-Innes and Brian Chikwava. When Brian Chikwava and Henrietta Rose-Innes found themselves at SOAS for a… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Nard Choi This week, AiW Guest Nard Choi continues our journey into African children’s literature.
The Book Lounge and the Fugard Theatre invite you to Open Book Festival 7 – 11 September 2016 HERE ARE SOME OF THE NAMES OF THOSE WHO WILL BE JOINING US! Some of you may have noticed names popping up… Read More ›
Since its inception in 2011, the Africa Centre’s Artist in Residency Programme (AIR) has successfully awarded 39 African artists the chance to take up residencies across the globe. Through continued partnerships with residency programmes in Australia, Brazil, India, Spain, China and the United… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Graham Riach Henrietta Rose-Innes’s latest novel opens with drifter Constantine on his way to retrieve the belongings of his childhood friend and one-time crush, zookeeper Mark Carolissen. Mark lies bandaged in hospital after a mauling by a rare black-maned… Read More ›
Writing the South African City LSE, London 16th-17th June Registration is now open for this year’s Writing South Africa Now: a Colloquium, hosted in London by LSE Cities, in association with the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. The colloquium is open… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Matthew Lecznar Toni Stuart is a South African poet, performer and spoken word educator, who presently works between Cape Town and London. Her work has been published in anthologies, journals and non-fiction books in South Africa and internationally. In 2013,… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Ed Charlton. In the same way as the vicissitudes of the weather—sudden hailstorms, raucous gales, sweltering humidity—often mark our experience of a place more vividly than any of the customary variations in climate, it is the petty familial… Read More ›
I’ve recently picked up Tim Parks’ collection Where I’m reading from,. The essay, Writing Adrift in the World critiques post-colonial literature studies I tutor students from England, studying, or practising, creative writing. They too now move in an international world… They too have taken… Read More ›
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