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2014 Africa Writes #P&P – What space is there for African travel writing? ‘Broadening the Gaze’

By Africa in Words on 5 July , 2020 • ( 0 )

AiW note: Rebecca Jones was at the 2014 Africa Writes Festival in London. We republish her coverage of the African & Diaspora Travel Writing panel here as part of our Africa Writes #PastAndPresent weekender, anticipating the online conversations of the… Read More ›

What space is there for African travel writing? ‘Broadening the Gaze’, Africa Writes, 12 July 2014

By Rebecca Jones on 1 August , 2014 • ( 3 )

Opening a panel on travel writing at the Royal Africa Society’s Africa Writes festival in London, panel chair Fatimah Kelleher observed that travel writing has often been a narrow genre in the past, dominated by Western perspectives on the world…. Read More ›