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 ›
The Karin Barber Pop-Up Lab: “Generation and Regeneration” Journal of African Cultural Studies At University of Birmingham 9th and 10th September 2018 Over the course of her career, Karin Barber inaugurated the field of African popular culture studies, and has… Read More ›
We are delighted to announce the 4th International Interdisciplinary Biennial Conference at the University of South Africa (UNISA), Department of English Studies. The conference will take place in September, 2nd-6th, at Valley Lodge (South Africa). This is a call for… Read More ›
We are delighted to announce that the fifth Conference of the Association for African Studies in Italy (Associazione per gli Studi Africani in Italia) will take place at the the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, 5-7th… Read More ›
We are delighted to announce that the African Studies Association (UK) Conference 2018 will be held at the University of Birmingham, UK from 11th-13th September 2018. Find out more here: http://www.asauk.net/asauk-2018-conference-11-13-september-university-of-birmingham/ As a key event for scholars working on and in… Read More ›
Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies (formerly The Journal of Pan African Studies; JPAS), a trans-disciplinary on-line multilingual peer reviewed open-access scholarly journal devoted to the intellectual synthesis of research, scholarship and critical thought on the African experience around the world, is seeking… Read More ›
AiW Author: Katarzyna Kubin “In the late 19th and early 20th century, the German Empire was one of the largest European colonial powers,” states the Foreword to the catalogue for the Deutsches Historisches Museum’s exhibit on German colonial history. Unlike… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Ed Charlton. When it comes to alliances and accords, Africa is full of them. Whether it is bilateral extradition treaties, regional trade agreements, or the pan-continental constitution of the African Union, there are everywhere traces of the extranational… Read More ›
History As Narrative New York 19 November 2015 The Mantle and Shakespeare & Co. invite you to an exclusive event with two of Africa’s hottest writers. Donald Molosi (Botswana) and Chinelo Okparanta (Nigeria) will read from their latest work and… Read More ›
Great War in Africa Conference Stellenbosch, South Africa 29 – 30 June 2015 The First World War has shaped the world in which we live. The emphasis has fallen heavily upon the Western Front. Increasing light has also been… Read More ›
African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability 15 May 2015 – 16 May 2015 CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT – SG1&2 Convenors Britt Baillie (University of Cambridge, Affiliated Lecturer in the Division of Archaeology) Chris Boonzaaier (University… Read More ›
I’m a big fan of the digitisation projects going on around universities and archives to make historical photographs accessible to everyone. Whilst it’s amazing to see an original daguerrotype, beautifully preserved and framed (or even in a special collection room… Read More ›
The Journalof History and Cultures (JHAC) is inviting postgraduates and early career academics to submit articles or book reviews for its next issue. JHAC is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to pioneering new research in history and cultures. Drawing on… Read More ›
Africa in Words Guest Victoria Smith: On 28th January 1955 the Ghanaian song Yaa Nom Montie played for the first time on radio as the theme music of the country’s first literary programme, Singing Net. The song’s composer, J.H. Kwabena… Read More ›
For me ‘The Supreme Price’ reflects a conflict many working with questions of gender and politics in history will recognise. How to measure the significance of women who attain power through men (husbands, fathers, sons)? How important is it to distinguish between women as figureheads… Read More ›
My auntie and the headmistress tried as best they could, with smiles and toffee, to shield me from their rising anxiety, but I could feel it bouncing off the quick sideways glances they shot each other and taking flight like… Read More ›
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 ›
AiW Guest Sarah Jilani This year marks the 50th anniversary of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Weep Not, Child. When the novel was originally published in 1964 by Heinemann’s African Writers Series, its author James Ngugi was a young Kenyan student at… Read More ›
Following AiW’s opening readings.. 'stories that have never been shared': Alex Ntung reads from his work @AlexMvuka #ASAUK2014 http://t.co/v5IcceytDu— Africa in Words (@AfricainWords) September 09, 2014 whirlwind literary tour, from Uganda to Kenya to Nigeria, Rwanda in the first… Read More ›
Peffer and Cameron’s new edited collection brings together disparate accounts of photography in Africa, revising and developing what is, as they point out, still a relatively new field, despite the work of (for example) Paul Jenkins and Paul Landau that… Read More ›
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