Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease at 60 Northeast Modern Language Association Convention Massachusetts, USA 5-8 March 2020 As Chinua Achebe’s second novel, No Longer at Ease, first published in 1960, arrives at its 60th anniversary, scholars have an opportunity to… Read More ›
On Friday 13th September Chibundu Onuzo will be at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre in London as part of the Africa Utopia Festival 2019. Author of The Spider King’s Daughter Chibundu Onuzo returns with her autobiographical show featuring narrative, music, song… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Tolulope Akinwole AiW’s annual Caine Prize review series is back, adding to our conversations over the years about prizes and prize culture – see Kate Wallis’ kick off from back in 2013. In the coming days we are… Read More ›
We are delighted to share this call for submissions for the Ake Arts and Books Festival’s annual journal. Writers are invited to submit their works for publication in the 2019 edition of the Ake Review. The theme for this year’s festival… Read More ›
Celebrating contemporary literature and thought from Africa and the diaspora: The Royal African Society and Saseni! present AFRICA WRITES – BRISTOL From Friday 28 June to Thursday 4 July 2019 Africa Writes – Bristol will be celebrating contemporary literature from… Read More ›
The 4th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference June 25 – 29, 2019 Faculty of Management Sciences University of Lagos Nigeria The fourth annual Lagos Studies Association Conference is taking place at the University of Lagos, Nigeria in June this year…. Read More ›
We are delighted to share the following information about this great event next week! Books & Rhymes in partnership with the Centre for African Studies at SOAS are excited to invite you to an event titled: “Bọ́lẹ̀kájà to Bọ́lẹ̀kásọ̀rọ̀”: Why I’m… Read More ›
We are delighted to share the following information about Finding Africa’s fourth and concluding seminar of the term! Finding Africa is an independent postcolonial African studies platform that facilitates interdisciplinary dialogue by various agents, mainly in the form of seminars, both in academia and beyond. This… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike D.M. Aderibigbe‘s first book, How the End First Showed won the 2018 Brittingham Prize in Poetry and is published by the University of Wisconsin Press, November 2018. His poems have appeared in The Nation, Poetry Review, Callaloo, jubilat,… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike Kọlá Túbọsún is a Nigerian linguist and writer based in Lagos, Nigeria. He is a joint winner of the Saraba Magazine Manuscript Contest in 2017 and the winner of the 2018 Miles Morland Scholarship. He… Read More ›
IFE INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES Theme: KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY: SCHOLARSHIP, TEACHING AND SERVICE July 21 – August 3, 2019 Ife Institute of Advanced Studies offers an international platform for nurturing a new generation of scholars. The summer institute is currently its… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Oliver Coates Isaac Fadoyebo’s memoir A Stroke of Unbelievable Luck offers a unique record of one African soldier’s war service in India and Burma. Forced to hide behind enemy lines in the Burmese rainforest for nine months, Fadoyebo’s… Read More ›
El Anatsui’s ‘Material Wonder’ At October Gallery, London Opens on Thursday, 28 February October Gallery, now in its 40th year, presents an exhibition of works celebrating the force and creative vision of El Anatsui, an artist who has had a tremendous impact… Read More ›
Intercultural Encounters, Historicity and Cultural Communication for Development In honour of Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Arole Oodua, Ojaja II While diverse accounts of the origin of the Yoruba have been appropriated by historians and scholars in cultural studies such as… Read More ›
Chris Abani‘s introduction to this strange and unsettling collection of noir shorts reveals the essence of the collection’s geographical inspiration: “the unsettled darkness that continues to lurk in the city’s streets, alleys, and waterways.” Lagos is the first African city… Read More ›
The 8th Annual International Igbo Conference SOAS, University of London April 12-13, 2019 Theme: The Igbo Arts and Its Intersections: Politics, Spirituality and Justice The Annual Igbo Conference has carved out a unique space, serving as a bridge between the… Read More ›
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 ›
We are delighted to share this call for abstracts, Campus Forms, for the 4th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference, June 27-29, 2019 This is a call for abstract submissions on Nigerian campus forms. The panel wishes to bring together an… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Serah Kasembeli I had never crossed the border to the neighbouring Uganda, even though our home is very close to the Kenya-Uganda Busia border. The idea of crossing into what has always been there yet unexplored, resonated in many… Read More ›
We are delighted to announce that the African Writers Conference this year will take place in the International Conference Centre, in Abuja, Nigeria, on 01 December. The theme of the 2018 African Writers Conference is: Re-imagining African Literature: New Voices, New… Read More ›
