Annual AMLA Fellowship 15 August – 30 November 2018 Have you recently set up or are you thinking of setting up a new platform that promotes African literature? Are you employed in a recently established literary and cultural initiative? Would… Read More ›
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 ›
“Literary Networks and Digital Media in Contemporary African Literatures” Postcolonial Text, Double Guest Issue 13:3 & 13:4, 2018 We are delighted to announce a call for fiction and poetry to be included in a Double Guest Issue of Postcolonial… Read More ›
You are invited to join the Webinar discussion with Children’s Africana Book Award Winner Meja Mwangi, author of The Mzungu Boy Wednesday 17th May at 6.00-7.15pm (CST); 12.00-1.15am (GMT) Join the online Global Read Webinar Series discussion on Wednesday, May… Read More ›
The team at Afrikult are looking for educators, activists, academics, artists and writers to join us for a trial working group session that will discuss the uniformity of the current English literature curriculum at secondary school level in England, with… Read More ›
It is time to save the date for Africa Writes 2018 Friday 29th June – Sunday 1st July 2018 Africa Writes returns for an exciting summer weekend at the British Library celebrating the best of contemporary literature from Africa and… Read More ›
The School of English and the Centre for Creative and Critical Thought invite you to the 7th African Popular Cultures Workshop at the University of Sussex Tuesday 10th April 2018, 14.00pm – 21.00pm The workshop, “East African Literary Cultures: from Writivism… Read More ›
We are delighted to announce that Peter Kimani will be at Waterstones on Tottenham Court Road in London this coming Wednesday, 14th March, at 7pm. Peter Kimani Dance of the Jakaranda Peter Kimani is on a rare tour in the… Read More ›
We are delighted to announce that Peter Kimani will be discussing his newest novel at SOAS, London, on Tuesday 13th March, 7.15 – 9pm. Peter Kimani will discuss his latest book Dance of the Jakaranda, published by Saqibooks, with Dr… Read More ›
We are delighted to announce SCOLMA’s forthcoming conference: “Things come together?: literary archives from, in and for Africa” The conference will explore African literary archives, their creation, preservation, digitisation and use in research and teaching. African literature is multi-faceted and… Read More ›
We are happy to announce a day of conversations, readings, workshops and performances to mark the life and work of the British Nigerian writer, Buchi Emecheta. The event will take place at the Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre at SOAS, University… Read More ›
‘African Studies Beyond the Binary: Critical Encounters at the Intersection’ St. Antony’s College, supported by the African Studies Centre University of Oxford Saturday 3 March 2018 Researching Africa Day is a conference for graduate students. Abstract submissions are welcome from… Read More ›
AiW thanks to Mawazo Africa Writing Institute for this info about their upcoming writing workshop… Call for Submissions: Mawazo Novel Writing Workshop Mawazo Africa Writing Institute announces a Call for Submissions for its first writing workshop: Writing the Novel, led by award-winning author Jennifer… Read More ›
AiW thanks to Finding Africa for this info about their 2018 seminar series… Finding Africa 2017/18 (UK) Theorising Africa: Reviewing a History of Ideas University of Leeds Seminar Series 2018 – Call For Papers
AiW Guest Lineo Segoete. Lineo Segoete is Programming Director at Ba re e ne re. This piece on the history and mission of the arts initiative Ba re e ne re and its flagship project, the Ba re e ne… Read More ›
This is the second in a series of three posts in which debut authors Leye Adenle, Jowhor Ile and Julie Iromuanya interview each other on their first books. Here Leye Adenle and Julie Iromuanya discuss Julie’s first novel Mr. and… Read More ›
This is the first in a series of three posts in which debut authors Leye Adenle, Julie Iromuanya, and Jowhor Ile interview each other on their first books. Here Jowhor Ile and Leye Adenle discuss Leye’s first novel Easy Motion… Read More ›
This is the last in a series of three posts in which debut authors Leye Adenle, Julie Iromuanya, and Jowhor Ile interview each other on their first books. Here Julie Iromuanya and Jowhor Ile discuss Jowhor’s first novel And After… Read More ›
A major exhibition at the British Library from 16 October 2015 – 16 February 2016 Celebrating the cultural dynamism of West Africa, from early symbolic scripts and illuminated manuscripts, to the writings of Wole Soyinka and the music of Afrobeat… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Madhu Krishnan In the just sixteen years that it has existed, the Caine Prize for African Writing has made an indelible mark, if not on African literature itself, then certainly on the critical discourses which surround it. With… Read More ›
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