Making Sense: Language, Text and Interpretation in African Studies 21-23 May 2020 Department of African Studies and Anthropology (DASA) and Centre of West African Studies (CWAS) of the University of Birmingham (UK) and the Langarchiv Project Please follow the link… 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 ›
Paper, airwaves, screen: from text to audience in African popular culture CALL FOR PAPERS University of Bristol, UK 12-13 July 2017 deadline: 15 February 2017 Confirmed keynotes: Lydie Moudileno (University of Pennsylvania), Tsitsi Jaji (Duke University) Recent artworks,… Read More ›
As part of our ongoing series on the ASAUK 2014 conference, Rebecca Jones reports on panels on African languages in literature and in the disciplines. Papers that discussed African languages could be found throughout the ASAUK 2014 conference – including panels on Swahili… 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 ›
AiW Guest Rehab Abdelghany The 3rd African Popular Cultures Workshop hosted at the University of Sussex concluded with a roundtable that brought together six academics and creative writers, who research, write from and about different parts of the African continent…. Read More ›
The second half of the African Popular Cultures Workshop at Sussex was held in a modern studio space called the ‘Creativity Zone’. Made up of three adjoining rooms, each of these exhibited different elements of work brought together under the… Read More ›
The School of English and the Sussex Africa Centre Postgraduate Committee invite you to the 3rd African Popular Cultures Workshop at the University of Sussex Monday 31st March 2014, 11.00am – 6.30pm with Professor Karin Barber (University of Birmingham), Professor… Read More ›
AiW Guest Rebecca Jones Is memory imagination or plagiarism? Are artists curators or creators of memory? Is memory determined by audience? Do we remember or embroider? – these were some of the questions we sought to explore in a one-day… Read More ›
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