Our December 2022 issue is out! Highlights include Ato Quayson’s ASA Presidential Lecture and a forum on pleasure edited by Moradewun Adejunmobi - an exciting piece which began as a project of the much-missed Tejumola Olaniyan. See the full issue here: ow.ly/8Iz750Mu1QQ

A hard hitting and beautiful film, it was screened to a packed theatre in NYC last night. Johannesburg is going to love it.

A great, and giant tree that sheltered many beings has fallen. For her life, her vision, her way-making...gratitude.💔

Ama Ata Aidoo has passed away this morning. I can barely fathom the news, the loss is just extraordinary 🖤🥀

My book, China in Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century African Literature, is now out with Cambridge University Press! 👇 doi.org/10.1017/978100…

*Book Talk* Come hear Duncan McEachern Yoon on 9/14 unpack the controversial symbol of China in African literature and the presence of themes like resource extraction, diaspora, gender, and race across literary genres GU African Studies HU Center for African Studies uschinadialogue.georgetown.edu/events/china-i…

Join us to hear about Duncan McEachern Yoon's new book and "how the symbolic realm, rather than existing as only an afterthought, stands front and center to how Africans and Chinese relate to each other and the worlds they mutually create." This Thursday at McGill University.

If you're in the Boston area this week: asiacenter.harvard.edu/asia-africa-re…

So excited to be at the @Winthrop_King Institute this Thursday 11/2! winthropking.fsu.edu/event/4th-glob…

AMES Colloquium and @UMNCSCL Colloquium Series: "China in 20th and 21st Century African Literature" with Duncan Yoon, Assistant Professor, NYU Gallatin Friday, Dec. 8 2PM - 3:30PM 135 Nicholson Hall This event is hybrid. To attend this event virtually: umn.zoom.us/j/99023830439?…

Today's AiW Team pick,#6 of #ReadingAfrica week (with Catalyst Press), is Duncan McEachern Yoon's *China in 20th and 21st Century African Literature*, examining the "controversial symbol of China" through Africa's literary creative voices, as far back as the Cold War and beyond...

Check out an episode I did on my book over at The History of Literature podcast! historyofliterature.com/588-china-in-a…

📖 Join us at Green College Coach House on Feb 29, from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM for a fascinating discussion on "History and Symbol in Africa and China Relations" by Duncan McEachern Yoon. Don't miss out! Register here: migration.ubc.ca/events/event/c…

Our majestic Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor takes the podium for the keynote❤️‍🔥 Introduced by Duncan McEachern Yoon Glimpses of “Transoceanic Third Spaces” Confluences and Currents: “Afrasian” Tide Tales — Y. A. Owuor At Africa China Symposium: Cultural Dimensions, Maputo

SIX months to go! We want all of you to be there.

La Grande Dame des Lettres mondiales, Maryse Condé, tire sa révérence, nous léguant une œuvre portée par la quête d’un humanisme fondé sur les ramifications de nos identités et les fêlures de l’Histoire. RIP.

"Ken was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Literature and Film Studies at Michigan State University where he taught for 52 years...helped bring many African filmmakers to the US to screen and promote their art, a tireless advocate and beloved advisor." lansingstatejournal.com/obituaries/ppe…

#MacondoLitFest24's theme "The Sea is History" pays tribute to Africa’s ties with the Indian Ocean worlds by connecting authors from the Swahili Seas and Africa’s Arab, English, French and Portuguese writing language zones. So, join us in September: shorturl.at/jT6XZ

To mark the 50th anniversary of the formation of the ALA, its annual conference and meeting will be held in Nairobi, Kenya June 26-28, 2024. The theme: "Ecologies of Transition: Spaces and Mobilities in African Literatures and Cultures" Full CFP here: conference.africanlit.org/2025-theme