AiW Guest: Doseline Kiguru. AiW note: This is part of a series of posts for Africa in Words exploring the networked series of research, events, and discussions, ‘Small Magazines, Literary Networks and Self-Fashioning in Africa and its Diasporas’. Here our… Read More ›
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Archiving Small Magazines: AWA Digitisation and Exhibition in Montpelier
AiW Guest Aurélie Journo AiW note: This Guest post is part of a series of articles publishing on Africa in Words that come out of conversations between a new interdisciplinary network of researchers and literary producers examining the circulation and production… Read More ›
Event & CfP: The African Gender Institute, Cape Town
Event: Queer Feminist Film Festival (19th Jan, Cape Town) The African Gender Institute brings you an exciting event: the Queer Feminist Film Festival. We are proud to partner with Triangle Project, Bertha Movie House and OXFAM South Africa on this… Read More ›
CFP: Small Magazines, Literary Networks and Self-Fashioning in Africa and its Diasporas (deadline for abstracts 30 Nov)
CFP Small Magazines, Literary Networks and Self-Fashioning in Africa and its Diasporas 19-20 January 2018 University of Bristol, UK This two-day conference seeks to explore the role of small magazines, literary journals and periodicals and other alternative print cultures from… Read More ›
Finding Affiliations: Reading Communities, Literary Institutions & Small Magazines
AiW Guest Sarah Smit Earlier this year a group of academics, writers and literary producers came together in Cape Town for a workshop convened by Chris Ouma and Madhu Krishnan exploring ‘Small Magazines, Black Archives and Personal Histories’. This piece engages… Read More ›
CfP: “Ukutshona kukaMendi”/ “Ukuzika kukaMendi”: The Mendi Centenary Conference, 28-30 March 2017, Cape Town, deadline: 30 September 2016
“Ukutshona kukaMendi”/ “Ukuzika kukaMendi”: The Mendi Centenary Conference, 28-30 March 2017, Cape Town Deadline: 30 September 2016 This conference, hosted by the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, commemorates the sinking of the SS Mendi that… Read More ›
“What’s Happening Over There?”: World Literature from the Global South – Man Booker International Public Panel, 26.03.2015
AiW Guest: Sarah Middleton. It has become hard to imagine living in a place where there’s a constant supply of electricity. In Cape Town we experience load-shedding, like the rest of the country, as a measure to prevent the collapse… Read More ›
Elephants and Metaphors: the Nyamnjoh debate on African anthropology
There’s been an debate going in the pages of Africa Spectrum which we thought might be of interest to some of our readers (hat tip to Stephanie Newell for bringing this to our attention). In 2012, Cape Town-based anthropologist Francis… Read More ›
New publication – Accented Futures: Language Activism and the Ending of Apartheid, by Carli Coetzee
This is a superb contribution to thinking about the teaching and transmutation of the culture of letters in South Africa. — Arlene Archer, University of Cape Town In this wonderfully original, intensely personal yet deeply analytical work, Carli Coetzee argues that… Read More ›