AiW note: Ukamaka Olisakwe’s Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right was released with Indigo Press in September and from Masobe Books on the 27th October this year – marking itself as a “feminist classic in the making” (Indigo). Here, Uchechukwu… Read More ›
We are delighted to share that there will be a special issue of English Studies in Africa in 2022 on ‘A Century of Modernism in African Literature and Literary Culture’. The deadline to submit papers for consideration is 01 June 2021…. Read More ›
Norval Foundation brings rising Venice Biennale star Michael Armitage to South Africa At just 35, Kenyan artist Michael Armitage is swiftly emerging as one of the most exciting young voices of contemporary art, heralded as a stand-out artist at the… Read More ›
Northeast African Studies (NEAS) is a biannual interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research in the social sciences and the humanities on the Horn of Africa and its neighbours. The region covers primarily Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, South Sudan, Djibouti, and Somalia/Somaliland…. Read More ›
The Black Book Festival London Saturday 14 March, 2020 11am-7pm The Black Book Festival is a celebration and showcase of African-Caribbean writing and global Black writing in general. This is an event that presents the work of old and new… Read More ›
Following the conversation between AiW Guest Aurélie Journo and the founder of Hekaya, Abu Amirah: “Heroes and scholars are everywhere”: Q&A , we are delighted to share that the Swahili Literary Festival is back for its second year. The Swahili… Read More ›
We are delighted to share this call for papers for a book project based on the course of the Biafra war and its literatures. On the 12th of January 1970, the ceasefire had been certified after the thirty-month Nigerian Civil… Read More ›
9th European Conference on African Studies ‘African Futures’ University of Cologne, Germany 2-5 June, 2021 ‘African Futures’ aims to explore the continent’s critical engagements with the past, present, and future of Africa’s global entanglements. The continent has been characterized as… Read More ›
We are delighted to share the announcement of the inaugural Africa Is A Country Fellowship Program. The purpose of the Africa Is A Country (AIAC) Fellowship is to support the production of original work and new knowledge on Africa-related topics… Read More ›
THE 9TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL IGBO CONFERENCE Igbo Mobilities: People, Trade & Knowledge 02–04 July, 2020 Princess Alexandra Auditorium (PAA), The University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria The Igbo Conference is an annual international conference usually held at SOAS, University of London…. Read More ›
5th International Congo Research Network (CRN) Congress 15-16 September 2020 The Becoming of Congo: Epistemologies, Practices, and Imaginaries The Congo Research Network (CRN) is organizing its fifth international conference, to be held at the University of Milan on 15-16 September… Read More ›
Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa Conference: 13-16 September 2020 Alexandria, Egypt Bibliotheca Alexandrina and The Islamic Manuscript Association—in partnership with the library’s Manuscript Center and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation—are delighted to announce the conference Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa, which will be… Read More ›
Call for Papers Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAFA) 2020 Oxford, 21-24 September 2020 The Past Through the Past: Constructing Identity, Tradition, and Community in Africa In many modern societies identity and social boundaries are often constructed through binary oppositions between… Read More ›
‘Towards the African Renaissance’ The Global Pan-African Conference (G-PAC) The Gambia 25 – 26 May 2020. We are delighted to share this call for papers for the inaugural Gambia-based Global Pan-African Conference 2020, which commemorates the 120th anniversary of the… Read More ›
Africa 2020 ‘Artistic, Digital, and Political Creation in English-Speaking African Countries’ Building on the recent partnership signed between Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) and the Festival de Marseille, the peer-reviewed journal of AMU research centre on Anglophone Studies (LERMA), E-rea, has decided to… Read More ›
The theme for the 7th Edition of the Ake Arts and Book Festival is Black Bodies | Grey Matter. Ideas and ideals abound on the shape and form of the African body, but these are rarely formulated by those to whom… Read More ›
The 5th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference Theme: Postcolonial African Cities at 60: Continuities and Discontinuities June 25-27, 2020 Lagos, Nigeria The postcolonial African city defies easy definition, even as African countries enter their 6th decade of independence in 2020. The 5th edition… Read More ›
Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease at 60 Northeast Modern Language Association Convention Massachusetts, USA 5-8 March 2020 As Chinua Achebe’s second novel, No Longer at Ease, first published in 1960, arrives at its 60th anniversary, scholars have an opportunity to… Read More ›
The 10th Annual African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, Interdisciplinary Conference at James Madison University, Virginia, USA, 20-21 February 2020 We are delighted to share this call for papers for the panel titled, “The African Notebook: Afrofuturistic Elements in College… Read More ›
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 ›
