Literary blog and archiving platform Brittle Paper turns 10 this year! Happy birthday BP! This month we take up their invitation to join their celebrations in their #DecadeProject with a post marking the last ten years as a significant decade… Read More ›
AiW Guest Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire AiW note: Africa in Words has long been engaged with the work of Carli Coetzee, and we particularly admire the care that she takes in thinking through the nature of our work as academics and… Read More ›
AiW Guest Rotimi Fasan AiW note: Africa in Words has long been engaged with the work of Carli Coetzee, and we particularly admire the care that she takes in thinking through the nature of our work as academics and the… Read More ›
Season’s greetings from the team at Africa in Words! Thanks for your readership and for another year of conversations on writing and culture from the African continent. As 2017 comes to a close, the blog is moving through some transitions…. Read More ›
AiW Guest: Carli Coetzee The title of Lola Akande’s novel What it Takes can be interpreted in more than one way. The novel can be read as a celebratory narrative of the extraordinary achievements of the protagonist, Funto Oyewole, as… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Carli Coetzee The second conference of the Lagos Studies Association has just taken place, at the University of Lagos. The conference had many memorable moments, but the one that stands out for me was when the panel was… Read More ›
From the Journal of African Cultural Studies African Literature Association Conference Atlanta, USA April 6-9, 2016 http://africanlit.org/annual-conference/upcoming-conference/ “Boredom” Panel organizers: Carli Coetzee and Ato Quayson In a public lecture titled “Being African in the World” delivered in Johannesburg, South Africa,… Read More ›
From the Journal of African Cultural Studies Call For Papers: African Literature Association Conference April 6-9, 2016 Atlanta USA http://ala2016.com/ “Fela no go die o” Fela is not dead. The musical and artistic influences of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti are undisputed and extend… Read More ›
By AiW Guests: S.J. Naudé and Carli Coetzee. AiW note: S.J. Naudé was born in South Africa and studied at Cambridge University and Columbia University. After practising law in New York and London for many years, he returned to South Africa for… Read More ›
By AiW Guest: Carli Coetzee. AiW note: this review is accompanied by a Q&A between Carli Coetzee and S J Naudé here. S J Naudé’s collection of short stories appeared in an Afrikaans language version (Alfabet van die Voëls, Umuzi) in 2011,… Read More ›
Emergent Discourses on African Literature at Africa Writes Friday 3 July 2015, 2:00-3:30PM, British Library Africa Writes invites PhD students and early career researchers to present and discuss new research on African literatures. Africa Writes is an annual festival organised by the Royal African… Read More ›
Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS) Panel Discussion Contemporary Cultures of Opposition in Africa 15 January 2014 15:00-17:00 Room: L67 SOAS, University of London “Alternatives to manipulation and domestication of the poor in arts for development: the danger… Read More ›
This is a superb contribution to thinking about the teaching and transmutation of the culture of letters in South Africa. — Arlene Archer, University of Cape Town In this wonderfully original, intensely personal yet deeply analytical work, Carli Coetzee argues that… Read More ›
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