The Performance of Pan-Africanism: from Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals International Conference 20-22 October 2016 Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University Keynote speakers: Andrew Apter (UCLA), Cheryl Finley (Cornell University), Souleymane Bachir… Read More ›
Saturday 14th November, 12-8pm The Showroom 63 Penfold Street, NW8 8PQ London, United Kingdom This event is a part of From Africa to Future: SYFU residency in The Chimurenga Library @ The Showroom Join sorryyoufeeluncomfortable for a Study Day to develop… Read More ›
The Journalof History and Cultures (JHAC) is inviting postgraduates and early career academics to submit articles or book reviews for its next issue. JHAC is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to pioneering new research in history and cultures. Drawing on… Read More ›
Guest Editor: Stephanie Newell Since his execution by the Nigerian authorities in 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa has received global recognition as a key figure in the struggle for minority people’s environmental and political rights. This special issue of Research in African… Read More ›
Africa in Words Guest Anne Samson: Ready packaged resources for those who want to explore the Great War in Africa are scarce. However, that shouldn’t put teachers and other educators off doing so as the amount of useful material on… Read More ›
My auntie and the headmistress tried as best they could, with smiles and toffee, to shield me from their rising anxiety, but I could feel it bouncing off the quick sideways glances they shot each other and taking flight like… Read More ›
As part of his tour of the UK to promote his novel, Foreign Gods, Inc., journalist, academic and writer Okey Ndibe paid a visit to the University of Sussex earlier this week. As well as being interviewed by locally-based African literature… 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 ›
We eventually got to their house, where I was introduced to a middle-aged women. They all spoke in Efik, I did not understand them. So I became more afraid, thinking that they were planning to eat me. The woman asked… Read More ›
AiW Guest Amber Murrey An influential Pan-Africanist and historian, Walter Rodney’s work provides guidance, invigoration and sustenance to PanAfricanists, scholars of Africa and the African Diaspora, and those interested in the socio-historical roots of social inequality. As a university professor in… Read More ›
In Jurg Schneider’s recent post for Africa in Words he wrote of the way in which photographs make up a part of a huge although highly decentralized visual archive which is open-ended and still dynamically in the making. Jurg provided links… Read More ›
Africa in Words Guest: Gavin Brown. When I set out to research the history of the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in London, I knew I could trace enough former participants in that protest to make the project… Read More ›
This one is definitively for me!! XxN Location: Illinois, United States Conference Date: April 12-14, 2013 Deadline for submitting abstracts, October 20, 2012 Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by November 5, 2012. It has been two decades since the publication of… Read More ›
I know, it is more like my kind of conference, but I thought you would like to know anyway 😉 XxN Sixth Annual Michigan State University Africanist Graduate Student Conference October 19-20, 2012, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan The 6th annual… Read More ›
Hi folks, I got this from a history list that I subscribe. I know it is not literature, but the borderline between these two disciplines are blurry and historians are accepting this more and more. XxN The editors of Transactions of… Read More ›
What is Africa to me now? The continent and its literary diasporas International conference University of Liège, Belgium, 21-23 March 2013
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