AiW note: Open Hearts Big Dreams (OHBD) is a not-for-profit organisation working to provide literacy resources and opportunities for students in Ethiopia. Their main project is Ready Set Go Books, an innovative effort to increase literacy in Ethiopia. OHBD publishes… Read More ›
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Event: Black Book Festival (14 March, London)
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 ›
Event: Swahili Literary Festival 2020: Identity Politics on the Swahili Coast (04-08 March)
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 ›
Words on Teaching: ‘Creative Thinking, Bold Idea-ing, Do-it-yourselfing’: Literature and Education in Binyavanga Wainaina’s Works
AiW Guest: Ruth S. Wenske. AiW note: Welcome to the first in our new “Words on…” series. In “Words on Teaching,” we’re thinking around print culture – books, images, texts, mags, spaces – and broad senses of what “teaching” might… Read More ›
Call for Papers: ‘Afrofuturistic Elements’, Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, U.S.A (Deadline: September 01)
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 ›
Call for submissions: 2019 Writivism Rukiga Youth Prize (Deadline: 03 May)
‘A writing prize for rural-based children and youth working in Rukiga, Uganda’ The Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) invites short stories from pupils and students of Rukiga in primary and secondary schools in the districts of Kabale, Kanungu, Kisoro,… Read More ›
Save the Date: International Publishers Association Africa Seminar (June 14-15, Nairobi)
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Petina Gappah are two of the many delegates set to attend the International Publishers Association Africa Seminar in Nairobi from June 14-15, 2019. The seminar will take place at Movenpick Hotel in Nairobi, and the theme… Read More ›
Call for Papers and Panels: ASAA Conference 2019 (Deadline: May ,15 & 30)
The 2019 ASAA Conference Nairobi October 24-26, 2019 The theme of African Studies Association of Africa’s (ASAA) 3rd Biennial Conference 2019 is African and Africana Knowledges: Past Representations, Current Discourses, Future Communities. The conference will be held for the first… Read More ›
Event: Somali Diaspora Conference (15 February, SOAS, London)
SOAS Somali Diaspora Conference: Challenges & Opportunities in UK 15th February 1:00 PM- 9:00 PM At SOAS, London The Somali Diaspora is one of the largest black and ethnic minority communities in the UK. It is diverse and transnationally engaged… Read More ›
Call for Papers: The Lagos Studies Association Conference, June 2019, Nigeria (Deadline for abstracts: 15 December)
We are delighted to share this call for papers for the 4th edition of The Lagos Studies Association (LSA) annual Conference in June 27-29, 2019 ‘Lagos in the World and the World in Lagos’ LSA June 2019 in Lagos, Nigeria… Read More ›
The African classroom: Reviewing Le Monde Afrique’s series « La classe africaine »
AiW Guest: Connor Pruss. From January to February 2018, Le Monde Afrique, the online African edition to the French newspaper Le Monde, released a series of articles chronicling education in various contexts across the continent called, “The African Classroom” (« La… Read More ›
Call for Support in Burkina Faso: A CITY WITHOUT A CINEMA
4 DAYS LEFT!! Help raise essential funds for the future of cinema in Burkina Faso A CINEMA FOR BOBO-DIOULASSO Despite strong demand from the Bobolese community, access to an adapted and accessible cinematographic experience is lacking today in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina… Read More ›
Working Group Call-out: Afrikult (Application Deadline: 30th April)
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 ›
Call for Panels: 2nd Pan African Conference, Dakar, Senegal (Proposal deadline: 30th March)
We are delighted to announce that the 2nd Pan African Conference on the Status and Work Condition of Artists and Cultural Actors in Africa will be held in Dakar, Senegal this year. The conference will take place in May, 7th-13th…. Read More ›
CfP: Workshop ‘Colonialism and education in a comparative perspective: Analysing gendered civilizing missions (ca. 1850-1970)’, 26 Oct 2017, Florence, deadline 20 Apr 2017
Call for Papers European University Institute (EUI, Florence) Workshop ‘Colonialism and education in a comparative perspective: analysing gendered civilizing missions (ca. 1850-1970)’ 26 October 2017, Florence deadline: 20 April 2017 In recent years, education has received renewed attention from… Read More ›
How to Write (and Draw) History in Africa: A Review of Abina and the Important Men
AiW Guest: Tamara Moellenberg The second edition of Trevor R. Getz’s and Liz Clarke’s Abina and the Important Men (OUP, 2016) creates a scholarly ‘forum’ around Abina, a nineteenth-century Ghanaian woman who sought her freedom from slavery through the British… Read More ›
“All the talk in WWI seems to be about France…”*
Why were Africans consigned to the margins, sometimes altogether erased, when the drama of this war was narrated? (Okey Ndibe) Okey Ndibe‘s comment above reflected on the absence of acknowledgement for Africa and Africans in terms of a different global war,… Read More ›
New publication – Accented Futures: Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid, by Carli Coetzee
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 ›