AiW Guest: Jade Munslow Ong. AiW note: The 11th of December 2020 marks 100 years since Olive Schreiner’s death. Here, Jade Munslow Ong discusses Schreiner’s legacies as a pioneering feminist, anti-colonialist and author of the first South African novel. 100… Read More ›
South African literature
African Jim: A Review of Christopher Mlalazi’s ‘The Border Jumper’
AiW Guest: Thulani Angoma-Mzini. In The Border Jumper (2019), Christopher Mlalazi upends the “Jim comes to Joburg” trope about the trafficking of rural dreams in a big city. Mlalazi has created a grimy, high-speed chase, shoot-‘em-up style novel written with… Read More ›
Call for Submissions: Ons Klyntji International Magazine (Deadline for submissions: 31st May)
Ons Klyntji, an independent magazine of literature, art, music, culture and design, published and launched every year in South Africa at the Oppikoppi music festival is looking for submissions “written or visual”. There is no set theme, but there… Read More ›
Event: Jozi Book Fair 2017, 31 August – 3 September 2017, Johannesburg
Jozi Book Fair 31 August – 3 September 2017, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Newtown, Johannesburg In partnership with the City of Johannesburg, the ninth Jozi Book Fair takes place from 31 August – 3 September 2017 at Mary Fitzgerald Square,… Read More ›
Event: Conversations in Bloomsbury: Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Nineveh, 10 March 2017, SOAS, London
Conversations in Bloomsbury: Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Nineveh 10 March 2017, SOAS, London Hosted by the Centre for English Studies, SOAS, together with the Southern Africa Seminar Series, University of London, the next edition of the Conversations in Bloomsbury events will… Read More ›
CFP: Writing South Africa Now
Writing South Africa Now in conjunction with the Southern African Poetry Project University of Cambridge 26-27 June 2015 Venue: The English Faculty, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom CFP deadline: April 15, 2015 Writing South Africa Now is the UK’s foremost… Read More ›
Review: Alex Smith’s ‘Devilskein & Dearlove’
‘AiW Guest Kristen Roupenian’ If it has been a long time since you’ve read Frances Hodgson Burnett’s children’s classic The Secret Garden—and if, in the meantime, your memory has been clouded by a series of overly charming movie adaptations—you may… Read More ›
Reminder – CFP open for African Studies Association UK 2014 Conference (deadline 25 April)
The ASAUK biennial conference will be held at the University of Sussex this year and will run from 2pm on Tuesday Sept 9th to 3.30 pm on Thursday 11th September 2014. The Sussex Africa Centre is scheduled for its official launch… Read More ›