LUCAS Annual Lecture We are delighted to announce details of the LUCAS Annual Lecture for this academic year: Conscripts of Colonial Modernity in Chinua Achebe’s Rural Novels Professor Ato Quayson (New York University)
Things Fall Apart
African literature and the next generation of writing back
AiW Guest: Rashna Batliwala Singh In his now iconic essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent” T. S. Eliot famously says “No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his… Read More ›
Worthy of Note: the “Red Africa” series and the exhibition “Things Fall Apart”
AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin continues her series examining the relationship between Africa and Eastern/Central Europe. The culmination of a two-year research project on “Socialist Friendship,” run by the Calvert 22 Foundation, was a series of events between February and April 2016… Read More ›
Event: Red Africa, 4 February – 3 April 2016, London
Red Africa A season on the legacy of cultural relationships between Africa, the Soviet Union and related countries during the Cold War 4 February – 3 April 2016 Introduction to the Red Africa season Calvert 22 is pleased to announce… Read More ›
The Absence of African Literature in American Legal Academia
AiW Guest: Dustin Zacks. The American Law and Literature movement consistently draws discussion material from the same wells. Consider a cursory search of just one database, HeinOnline, commonly used to browse American law reviews: one could spend countless hours perusing… Read More ›
CFP: Remembering Chinua Achebe
With the passing off on March 22, 2013 of Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian prolific writer, one has to admit that the founding father of African literature has forsaken his pen forever. While the reference that Achebe is beheld as the… Read More ›
Achebe remembered: thanks for your wahala*
Wahala: OED ‘trouble, affliction, calamity’ (from the OUP Blog) The death of Achebe has seen a wide range of tributes: reprints of interviews, quotes, images but also reflections and memories from those who knew this great writer, and writers influenced… Read More ›
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