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African Literature Book Club – 15th February
We are delighted to invite you to the maiden edition of the Cambridge University African Literature Book Club series, 3:00-4:30 (ish) on the 15th of February, 2020, in the African Studies Library, up on the third floor of the Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road. Who are we? This book club is an initiative of…
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CfP – SCOLMA 2018 Things come together?: literary archives from, in and for Africa
Things come together?: literary archives from, in and for Africa Monday 10 September 2018, University of Birmingham CALL FOR PAPERS This conference will explore African literary archives, their creation, preservation, digitisation and use in research and teaching. African literature is multi-faceted and multi-lingual. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) not only signalled the first stages…
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Events: African Literature at the London Literature Festival, 5 -16 October 2016, London
London Literature Festival Living in Future Times Wednesday 5 October 2016 – Sunday 16 October 2016 Picture courtesy of http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/ The world today increasingly resembles the realm of science fiction. From satellites which map our every movement to robots in the workplace, the stuff of fantasy is becoming reality. And beneath the surface of modern…
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Call for Abstracts: ALA conference 2017 – Africa and the World, deadline 15 November 2016
Call for Abstracts African Literature Association Conference 2017 Africa and the World: Literature, Politics, and Global Geographies The theme chosen for the June 14-17, 2017 conference at Yale seeks to engage with and interrogate recent shifts in critical and theoretical frameworks from regional, national, and “postcolonial” models towards “world literature” as a framework for understanding…
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Call for Nominations: African Literature Association (ALA) Awards Announcement 2017, Deadline: 1 September 2016
The African Literature Association is currently accepting nominations for the following awards. Please note the deadlines and the specified individual to whom and all nominations and materials should be addressed. The awards will be presented at the ALA 43rd Annual Meeting and Conference, June 2017, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Graduate Student Best Essay…