Zarina Patel's footprints in the world of human rights activism remind us that every drop of ink, every letter; every sound, every voice...does matter. Rest easy #Zarina

I had a really introspective conversation with Frank Njugi courtesy of Lagos/Los Angeles based digital media platform Afrocritik. Definitely amongst the best media interviews I've had. 

Full interview...👇🏿👇🏿
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#Dorphanage #Afrocritik #Interview #EarthDay

Join us on Thurs for another fascinating HUMA - Institute for Humanities in Africa #atayaseminars with STIAS Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa Centre for African Studies Basel ZASB fellow Aidas Sanogo, chaired by Carnegie Corporation of New York #humateam Dom Somda

Ghanaian author @KwameDawes has been named as the new Poet Laureate of Jamaica from 2024-2027. Previous Poet Laureates include Professors Mervyn Morris, Lorna Goodison, and Olive Senior. Congratulations to Dawes! 🎉

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We have published another paper on Y. Adhiambo Owuor's novel The Dragonfly Sea, this time by our very own Edgar Nabutanyi of Makerere Department of Literature. Read 'The Subversion of Archipelagic Memory in Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea' below.
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We will announce the winners of our 2023 prizes on Sunday April 28, 2024 in a ceremony held over Zoom at 7pm (Kampala) | 6pm (Johannesburg) | 5pm (Lagos) | 4pm (Accra/London) | 12noon (Baltimore) | 9am (Los Angeles).

Join us.

Details

Meeting ID: 858 0904 7055
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Please join us in person or online at a roundtable on Tumi Mampane’s remarkable book _Pentecostal Charismatic Women: Constructions of Femininity in Alexandra Township, published by HSRC press HSRC Press
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Last few days to submit an abstract to the panel on displacement urbanism that I'm convening with Ayham Dalal. Submissions close 21 April!

.isaac Samuel's African History Extra is living up to its name with this in-depth article on 'The General History of #Africa ' africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-general-…

This 1905 book has a Duruma native tradition claim that they descended from the people of Kilwa, brought to Mombasa by Bwana Kigozi. Eliot suggests Kigozi could've been de Goez, a Portuguese General who defeated Kilwa's Sultan and deported him and his subjects to Mombasa in 1509.

The Department of Creative Writing at WITS, in collaboration with AFLIT@WITS is proud to host the award-winning Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, for a conversation and writing workshop this Thursday. Come join us and catch some magic from one of the top writers of our time✨✨🌟💫

The Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship (organized by The Africa Institute) invites writers to Sharjah, UAE for three months to complete their work. The residents will also be awarded a grant of 45,000 AED.

Deadline: June 1, 2024

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Silence: the unsayable and the unsaid. We have just published an article by Nicklas Hållén of Uppsala University on different forms of Silence in Yvonne Vera's The Stone Virgins. Read it here:
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#africanfiction #lolwebookske #kisumu bookstore #kisumu

I will teach my 'Short Story Editing Workshop' from June to Nov (2.5 hour class, online, once every two weeks). Get your stories publication-ready! Request information about this class via this link: bit.ly/49K8zpU. Retweet please or tell a writer.

WiSER celebrates Achille Mbembe's prestigious recognition as the 2024 Holberg Prize laureate 🎉

The paper uses a comparative methodology to discuss the oral poems alongside the 2019 novel #TheDragonflySea by Y. Adhiambo Owuor, exploring ideas of labour, identity, and heritage. (2/2)

This Sunday we recommend reading “Representations of Indian Ocean Ecologies, Heritage and Kinship in Banaadiri Fishing Poems and Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea” by Ayan Salaad in Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies
#SundayRead #CulturalHeritage #poetry (1/2)
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Prof. Mbembe's first time in São Paulo. This event formed part of the São Paulo International Theater Show.

@/Universidade de São Paulo
More info: shorturl.at/cwBF0.

A new Mind Sweeps event!

~ Wednesday 6 March, 2–3.30pm, Avenue Campus ~

We're very lucky to host Grace Musila (Wits University) and Lynda Spencer (@Rhodes_Uni), who will discuss African literature in its many manifestations--

Chaired by:
Ranka Primorac and Toby Litt