AiW Guest: Kadiatou Keita. It was exhilarating at first. I cheered Professor Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on like he was performing. The March 2021 installment of the University of Yale’s English Department organised ‘African Writers in Conversation Series‘ featured Ngũgĩ wa… Read More ›
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Caine Prize 2020 & Africa Writes. Q&A: “[I]nvite our audiences to meditate on joy and re-center our humanity”: Ifeanyi Awachie’s Words on the Times
AiW note: In the first of Africa Writes’ online events this year, Ifeanyi Awachie, London-based Igbo curator and writer, will be in conversation with the 2020 AKO Caine Prize shortlisted writers this evening, Monday 20th July at 19.00 BST (20.00… Read More ›
Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowships in African Studies, Yale University (Application deadline: 01 April 2018)
We are delighted to announce that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: Social Sciences: MacMillan Center at Yale University is offering Postdoctoral Fellowships in African Studies (Social Sciences and Humanities) The Council on African Studies at the Whitney and Betty… Read More ›
Q&A: Ifeanyi Awachie on curating Yale’s Africa Salon: bringing African conversations and African cool to Yale
Africa Salon is a contemporary African arts and culture festival founded in 2015 at Yale University. The Salon is a week-long feast of visual art, music, dance, literature, film and more from Africa and the diaspora, and it has brought… Read More ›
At Prestigious Yale Literary Festival, Africanness Affirmed: Ifeanyi Awachie on the Windham Campbell Festival
AiW Guest: Ifeanyi Awachie As a Nigerian-American undergraduate at Yale, I was both impressed by my university’s grandeur and accustomed not to expect the institution’s most illustrious visitors or highly touted programs to reflect my race or cultural identity. The… Read More ›