Writing the South African City LSE, London 16th-17th June Registration is now open for this year’s Writing South Africa Now: a Colloquium, hosted in London by LSE Cities, in association with the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. The colloquium is open… Read More ›
Johannesburg
Review: Things We Lost in the Fire by Vuyelwa Maluleke
AiW Guest: Toni Stuart Vuyelwa Maluleke’s Things We Lost in the Fire is a meditation on all that still lies broken within and between South Africans. It is at once a meditation on the woundedness of South Africa’s black men, and,… Read More ›
Q&A with Toni Stuart: Poetry gives people the power to make their voices heard
AiW Guest: Matthew Lecznar Toni Stuart is a South African poet, performer and spoken word educator, who presently works between Cape Town and London. Her work has been published in anthologies, journals and non-fiction books in South Africa and internationally. In 2013,… Read More ›
Exhibition: Fashion Cities Africa, 30 April 2016 – 8 January 2017, Brighton
Fashion Cities Africa Start: 30 April 2016 at 10:00 am End: 8 January 2017 at 5:00 pm Brighton Museum The first major UK exhibition dedicated to contemporary African fashion will open at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery on 30 April… Read More ›
Publishing a ‘Double Negative’: And Other Stories’ UK/US publication of Ivan Vladislavić
Teju Cole introducing Ivan Vladislavic in Chelsea: “One of the best writers in the world… one of the great modern prose stylists.” Agreed. — Africa is a Country (@AfricasaCountry) November 5, 2013 (Tweeted from 192 Books in New York, where Teju Cole, author… Read More ›
Lauren Beukes and African Science Fiction
Africa in Words Guest, Professor James Smith of the University of Edinburgh, writes: Professionally I research the role science and technology play in shaping Africa’s development. Thus I naturally have an interest in the writing of Lauren Beukes given her… Read More ›