Africa in Words
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Focusing on creative cultural production and Africa - books, art, film, history, sounds, ideas & all their interactions - only one (1/2? a) foot in the academy.
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Submit to Afrocritik (Afrocritik)’s Inaugural Prize for Criticism. Books in review are by Dami Ajayi (Dami Ajayi), Jerry Chiemeke (The Black Hemingway), and Peace Adzo Medie (Peace Medie) jaylit.com/submit-to-afro…
🖋Applications are open for this writing workshop with Cassava Republic!
Are you an African writer? Submit to either of these 3 open awards from WSA-Rwanda by July 1st for the chance to win prizes!
We are beginning to build the conference programme! The very first stream to be programmed is that chaired and put together by Dina Ligaga titled "Re-engaging ‘Old Media’ Archives and Methods". 4 innovative panels, which will run in the same room throughout the conference.
New post remembering Maryse Condé 📚🙌🏾 as she is threaded thru our archives. Thinking institutions & valuation - 'world', 'poco', 'international' lit - & who is defining what from where, in 2 'couplets' - on SEGU (w. Kadija George) & 'Condé in Cape Town': africainwords.com/2024/04/25/arc…
📢International (UK-based) poetry initiative call for African experiences of migration👇🏾 Forced Migration and The Arts work where forced migration & the arts meet; CivicLeicester are an indie publisher w. a range of sympathetic #anthologies; & Regularise help offer safer paths to settlement.
NEW UP! Kris Van der Bijl finds SKETCHES, debut travel prose book from writer & Botsotso Publishing ed. KHARYS ATEH LAUE, "experimental", "in-tuned", "complex & beautiful", w. a pub. model from another field standout, MDL SEE, highlighting its special qualities: africainwords.com/2024/05/24/rev…
Nigerian publisher Ouida Books launched a new imprint, Lufu. Lufu is dedicated to publishing romance, crime, and chick lit... and they're accepting submissions! If you have a manuscript that sparks joy, laughter, and steam, consider submitting to Lufu! ⬇️ buff.ly/3KAp11F
New Q&A up on the site now! With kakizi jemima, on curating the work of the 5 women artists in the immersive visual arts group exhibition, FIERCE FEMMES, and translating the trauma of Rwanda’s genocide into a narrative, 3 decades on... africainwords.com/2024/06/26/qa-…