‘That great Kenyan novel will eventually come. Perhaps, it will even emerge online, like the novels of Alexander Nderitu.’ – Joyce Nyairo, cultural analyst, Daily Nation Alexander Nderitu is a Kenyan poet, novelist, and playwright and critic. He is also an arts analyst… Read More ›
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In other Words… AiW news and April’s wrap
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 ›
Call for Papers: Africa 2020 (Abstract Deadline: 01 January)
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 ›
Event: The 4th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference (June 25-29, Lagos)
The 4th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference June 25 – 29, 2019 Faculty of Management Sciences University of Lagos Nigeria The fourth annual Lagos Studies Association Conference is taking place at the University of Lagos, Nigeria in June this year…. Read More ›
Event: Nordic Africa Days 2018 (19-21 September, Uppsala, Sweden)
The Nordic Africa Days (NAD) biannual international conference 19-21 September 2018 Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden The conference starts today at 4pm. The programme and more information can be found here A few highlights include: Thursday 20th 9am… Read More ›
CfP: ‘Africa Bibliography’ (Open Call)
We are delighted to announce this open call for papers on topics relating to research, libraries, archives and publishing in and on Africa, and in African studies. Usually one article is published annually with the print and online version of Africa Bibliography,… Read More ›
CfP: African literary archives, SCOLMA, University of Birmingham (Abstracts deadline 31st March)
We are delighted to announce SCOLMA’s forthcoming conference: “Things come together?: literary archives from, in and for Africa” The conference will explore African literary archives, their creation, preservation, digitisation and use in research and teaching. African literature is multi-faceted and… Read More ›
Pigeon Posts: Letters from Africa – special offer for AiW readers
We’re delighted to be able to offer African in Words readers free access to the first five staves (chapters) of Pigeon Posts: Letters from Africa. Monday 19th January 2015 saw the launch of digital serial publisher The Pigeonhole’s first real-time book, Pigeon… Read More ›
Q&A with ‘Diary of a Zulu Girl’ author Mike Maphoto
Mike Maphoto’s ‘Diary of a Zulu Girl’ blog is something of a digital literature phenomenon. Since it began a scant five months ago in April 2013, it has had more than 10 million page views from 22 countries, spawned numerous… Read More ›