It has been a lit first month of 2021! As we move through the changed circumstances, timelines and spaces of now, we catch up on our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ we haven’t had out already on the site –… Read More ›
Yoruba
CFP: SCOLMA 2020: ‘Publishing, Collecting & Accessing African-language Materials’ (Abstract Deadline: 03 February)
SCOLMA Annual Conference 2020 Oun a ní la ń gbé l’árugẹ [i] – (It is the heritage we have that we must celebrate): Publishing, Collecting and Accessing African-language Materials Monday 8 June, 2020 SALT, Paul Webley Wing, SOAS, University of… Read More ›
Call for Papers: ‘Intercultural Encounters’, A Book in Honour of Ojaja II (Deadline: 30 April)
Intercultural Encounters, Historicity and Cultural Communication for Development In honour of Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Arole Oodua, Ojaja II While diverse accounts of the origin of the Yoruba have been appropriated by historians and scholars in cultural studies such as… Read More ›
Call for Applications: Chevening Fellowship opportunity for African Scholars, British Library (Deadline: 06 November)
The British Library is currently advertising for a Chevening Fellow for the following project: Research on the British Library’s African-language printed books collections The successful candidate will research at least one of the following collections: Hausa, Swahili, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu,… Read More ›
Call for Papers: Sixth Annual Seminar on African Language Literature, ACLA (Deadline: 20th September)
At the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, on 5th-7th March, 2019, the organiser Wendy Belcher will be hosting a seminar on African language literature. Sixth Annual Seminar on African Language Literature While African… Read More ›
Event: The Karin Barber Pop-Up Lab: “Generation and Regeneration” (09-10 September, University of Birmingham)
The Karin Barber Pop-Up Lab: “Generation and Regeneration” Journal of African Cultural Studies At University of Birmingham 9th and 10th September 2018 Over the course of her career, Karin Barber inaugurated the field of African popular culture studies, and has… Read More ›
Q&A: Beautiful Nubia: “Our music is art on a journey”
AiW Guest: Tope Salaudeen-Adegoke Beautiful Nubia, the stage name for Segun Akinlolu, is widely acclaimed by music critics as Nigeria’s foremost contemporary folklorist. He is an artist with a vibrant soul who combines the Yoruba traditional percussion with other modern… Read More ›
Q&A: poet-psychiatrist Femi Oyebode on literature, medical humanities and the mind
AiW Guest: Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè Femi Oyebode is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham, UK, and the current author of Sim’s Symptoms in the Mind (4th edition). His other books include Mindreadings: literature and psychiatry & Madness at the Theatre…. Read More ›
Ẹ jẹ́ k’á sọ Yorùbá: Yoruba language resources online
The online space offers important opportunities to develop resources for African-language documentation and learning, whether drawing on the power of apps and online games to make language learning fun, or on social media, online databases and crowdsourcing as tools to… Read More ›
African Languages at ASAUK 2014
As part of our ongoing series on the ASAUK 2014 conference, Rebecca Jones reports on panels on African languages in literature and in the disciplines. Papers that discussed African languages could be found throughout the ASAUK 2014 conference – including panels on Swahili… Read More ›
They Will Eat Me in Calabar: tales from the front lines of Nigeria’s National Youth Service Corps
We eventually got to their house, where I was introduced to a middle-aged women. They all spoke in Efik, I did not understand them. So I became more afraid, thinking that they were planning to eat me. The woman asked… Read More ›
Ogbeni Femi, and the future of Yoruba oral performance
Femi Amogunla – also known as Femi Kayode and Ogbeni Femi, or ‘Mr Femi’ – is a spoken word poet based in Lagos. In 2012, Femi took part in 30 Nigeria House, a collaboration between Stratford East Theatre and New… Read More ›
Spotlight on…Akinwumi Isola
This post is the first in an occasional series of writer profiles, looking especially at those working in African languages. For readers and speakers of Yoruba, Akínwùmí Ìsòlá [pronounced Ishola] needs little introduction. A charismatic and stern-looking figure affectionately nicknamed… Read More ›
Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, ‘Yoruba Women, Work and Social Change’ (Indiana University Press, 2009)
Marjorie Keniston McIntosh’s new(ish) book, Yoruba Women, Work and Social Change’ has been on my shelf to read for longer than it should have been. McIntosh’s introduction promises a study ‘of adaptability and syncretism, not of simple continuity or abrupt… Read More ›
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