The 5th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference Theme: Postcolonial African Cities at 60: Continuities and Discontinuities June 25-27, 2020 Lagos, Nigeria The postcolonial African city defies easy definition, even as African countries enter their 6th decade of independence in 2020. The 5th edition… Read More ›
African Futures: Promises, Projections and Reflections on a Continent in Transition AEGIS Summer School 9-13 June 2020 Cagliari, Italy The 2020 Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS) Summer School will address the theme of African Futures: Promises, Projections and Reflections… Read More ›
We are delighted to share this call for papers for the 4th edition of The Lagos Studies Association (LSA) annual Conference in June 27-29, 2019 ‘Lagos in the World and the World in Lagos’ LSA June 2019 in Lagos, Nigeria… Read More ›
University of Leeds, Center for African Studies (LUCAS) Conference 2019 April 4-5, 2019 The call for papers for the conference next year at Leeds is entitled: Contemporary Africas, Creative Africas: Conceptual and Methodological Advances in African Studies How does one… Read More ›
The 7th Biennial Network Conference: “Afroeuropeans: Black In/Visibilities Contested” In Lisbon (ISCTE – IUL) 4th – 6th July 2019 The Afroeuropeans Network Conference is an important platform for the production of knowledge in the pertinent field of transdisciplinary research on racism,… Read More ›
The 44th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association: “The Environments of African Literature” will commence in May, 23rd-26th, at Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C. In calling attention to the Environments of African Literature, the 2018 African Literature Association… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Nafeesah Allen The Hamburger that Killed Jorge is an anthology of short stories, written by young and emerging Mozambican writers, meant to open an aperture for a new branch of crime fiction. Born out of a 2016 national… Read More ›
Writing the South African City LSE, London 16th-17th June Registration is now open for this year’s Writing South Africa Now: a Colloquium, hosted in London by LSE Cities, in association with the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. The colloquium is open… Read More ›
Call for papers Mediating Waste: Media and the Management of Waste in Lagos A One-Day Workshop on Weds 16th March 2016 at the University of Lagos At the centre of this interdisciplinary workshop is the idea that there are fruitful… Read More ›
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