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 ›
AiW Guest: Pelu Awofeso “I am a student of Chinua Achebe,” Okey Ndibe says near the end of his reading at University of Lagos’ Faculty of Arts last July. “But as a writer, my temperament is between [Wole] Soyinka, Achebe… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Carli Coetzee The second conference of the Lagos Studies Association has just taken place, at the University of Lagos. The conference had many memorable moments, but the one that stands out for me was when the panel was… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Babatunde Onikoyi Tunde Kelani is the preeminent Nigerian filmmaker and one of the most distinguished in Africa. His cinematographic endeavours, under the stables of Mainframe Television and Film Production and situated in the heart of the city of… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Pelu Awofeso Actor and performance coach Toyin Oshinaike is teaching 80 thespians in an actors’ workshop at the Lagos Theatre Festival (28 Feb-5 March); all on their feet and attentive, they form a large rectangular ring around him…. Read More ›
Lagos Theatre Festival 28 February – 05 March 2017 Lagos Theatre Festival founded by British Council in 2013, is a festival to present performing arts from Nigeria and the UK every february in Lagos. It has a part focus… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Harriet Hughes Fashion Cities Africa, the first major UK exhibition dedicated to presenting contemporary African Fashion design, opened at Brighton museum in April 2016. The aim of the exhibition is to present the fashion cultures of four African… Read More ›
AFRIFF African International Film Festival 6th edition Lagos, 13 – 20 November 2016 This season, the annual Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) returns for its sixth year of cinematic celebration with an impressive line-up of movie premieres, film screenings, industry… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Dare Dan 1998: An Onitsha man arrives in Lagos at the Surulere offices of Zeb Ejiro, a movie producer. He offers cash to make an instant movie named Scores to Settle (1998), directed by Nigerian auteur Chico Ejiro… Read More ›
Lagos: Sustaining the Future of Creativity August 2016 Symposium Sharing ideas from across the UK and Nigeria to help sustain creative practice into the future. Date: Thursday 11th August Time: 1pm – 6pm Location: The Africa Centre, 66 Great Suffolk… Read More ›
LAGOS: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Space, Society, and the Imagination of an African Crossroads LAGOS: From the Pepperfarm to the Megacity (and Beyond) An Interdisciplinary Conference on Space, Society, and the Imagination of an African Crossroads Faculty of Arts University… Read More ›
Three Photographers/Six Cities April 30, 2016 – September 25, 2016 Philadelphia Museum of Art Experience six African cities through the work of three extraordinary photographers. This exhibition offers an in-depth look at three photographers who create powerful pictures of… Read More ›
New art initiative Future Assembly announces Session One Exhibition and Public Programme It’s also a Solo Journey, News of the world gallery, 50 Resolution Way, Deptford, London, SE8 4NT, 29 April to 22 May 2016 Artists’ Platforms, Diaspora and Transnational… Read More ›
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 ›
AiW Guest: Leye Adenle Leye Adenle discusses how an encounter with a sex worker led to him giving her the central role in his first feature-length novel. This is part of our joint series with the LSE Africa blog: Reflections on… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Iquo DianaAbasi The Lagos International Poetry Festival 2015 was themed ‘Borderless Words’, aptly so in this period of migrations within Africa and across Europe. The organizers say that in the light of border restrictions, they choose to see… Read More ›
In the last two decades poetry, particularly of the performance variant, has been experiencing a resurgence across the African continent. Urban city centres from Lagos to Nairobi to Joburg are dotted with bars converted to open mic venues, where enthusiasts… Read More ›
Call for papers Mediating Waste: Media and the Management of Waste in Lagos A One-Day Workshop on Weds 16th March 2016 at the University of Lagos At the centre of this interdisciplinary workshop is the idea that there are fruitful… Read More ›
‘— That house is no ordinary house. Ordinary house, indeed — […] — People say that at night you could hear voices and sometimes cries emanating from that house. Even though no one lives there anymore. — It casts a… Read More ›
The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa A seminar by Professor Steph Newell (University of Sussex) June 10, 11am – 12pm Seng Tee Lee Room, Senate House Library, London As part of the Scolma Lunchtime Seminar Series 2015, Professor Steph… Read More ›
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