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Spotlight on…Mengistu Lemma
AiW Guest Sara Marzagora. This post is the second in an occasional series of writer profiles, looking especially at those working in African languages. The first post in our series was on Akinwumi...
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To write poetry after Pistorius is insufficient: rapture, rupture and...
By AiW Guest Anneke Rautenbach. Tom Wolfe, as early as 1973, spoke of a new form of writing that “consumes devices that happen to have originated with the novel and mixes them with every other...
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Q&A: Uche Peter Umez interviews poet Afam Akeh
By AiW Guest: Uche Peter Umez. “Different writers in different locations at different times find their different reasons for writing.” Afam Akeh Interviewer’s Note: AFAM AKEH, the author of Stolen...
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The Rise of the African Development Confessional?
AiW guest James Smith. Nina Munk’s The Idealist: Jeffery Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty (Random House) isn’t a book only about Jeffery Sachs. It’s a book about the world as we would like it to be,...
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Chimurenga Chronic and Chronic Books II
By AiW Guest: Steffan Horowitz The latest issue (August 2013) of Chimurenga’s quarterly pan-African gazette, the Chronic, and its accompanying Chronic Books magazine are now available in print or for...
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An archive of solidarity: The City of London Anti-Apartheid Group papers
Africa in Words Guest: Gavin Brown. “Surround the Embassy”, 16 June 1988(Photo credit: Jon Kempster) When I set out to research the history of the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in...
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Digital Futures: The changing landscape of African publishing – Review &...
Earlier in the year Africa in Words editors and authors attended Africa Writes 2013 in London. This literature and book festival organized by the Royal African Society hosted some of the most exciting...
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African Photography Series: African Photography has always been International
by AiW Guest Jürg Schneider Picture of unidentified woman by Augustus Washington [1855], from http://www.loc.gov/Between October 26 and November 16 of 2013 the fourth edition of the international...
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Jahmil XT Qubeka’s ‘Of Good Report’ opens Film Africa 2013
AiW Guest Christine Singer. The widely anticipated film Of Good Report opened Film Africa 2013, London’s annual major celebration of film from Africa and the diaspora, on 1 November 2013 at the...
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Journeys into Genre: Talking Horror and Sci-fi with Jahmil XT Qubeka
Hot on the heels of Christine Singer’s nuanced review of Jahmil XT Qubeka’s Of Good Report, Emma Dabiri shares insights from her recent conversation with Qubeka – exploring whether Of Good Report can...
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Review –‘Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”’: Prufrock, the Magazine
AiW Guest: Graham Riach. The first edition of new literary magazine Prufrock, which appeared in autumn this year, cuts quite a dash. The cover must be somewhere around a Pantone 2635c, I imagine, with...
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Anticolonial Visions: Revisiting Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic in 2013
AiW Guest Armin Fardis. We are being abandoned by history. Few care to read or think about it. We live increasingly in a ‘post-historic’: age, in the endless proliferation of technological means and...
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Q&A: Uche Peter Umez interviews poet Musa Idris Okpanachi
AiW Guest: Uche Peter Umez. “Ironies and satires provide poetry with a kind of cynical beauty…” Interviewer’s Note: Musa Idris Okpanachi teaches English Linguistics at the Department of English,...
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Q&A: Uche Peter Umez interviews poet Remi Raji
AiW Guest: Uche Peter Umez. “the good poem must and should be readable, friendly to the spoken word without being pedantic and pedestrian” Interviewer’s Note: Remi Raji, Nigerian poet, scholar,...
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‘Dust’ by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor – review
AiW Guest jalida scheuerman-chianda The second time I met Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor she was sitting at a round wooden table in the garden of the Kwani? office in Nairobi, waiting to be interviewed on the...
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African Study Classics – Walter Rodney
AiW Guest Amber Murrey Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline station in central Cameroon. An influential Pan-Africanist and historian, Walter Rodney’s work provides guidance, invigoration and sustenance to...
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Teaching Africa: Sipho Sepamla, literary realism and ‘A Ride on the Whirlwind’
By AiW Guest: An anonymous academic labourer, somewhere in the South-East of England. Recently I helped teach a course on South African protest and resistance literature. We looked at fiction and...
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Event: Sussex Africa Centre. James Esson, ‘Entrepeneurs of the body? Ghanaian...
By AiW Guest: Ross Wignall. First, from us at AiW, a quick intro to the Sussex Africa Centre, a new initiative in its founding year, celebrating the University of Sussex’s history of international...
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‘Diaspora [still] Writes Back’. Africa Writes (RAS).
AiW Guest: Ben Verghese. Africa Writes is the annual literary festival from the Royal African Society – a celebration of contemporary African literature from across the continent and the diaspora, held...
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Sussex Africa Centre (SAC) – Emerging Research Landscapes II, 6th March 2014
By AiW Guest: Francesca Salvi. Offering three presentations from different department across the University of Sussex, the second postgraduate Sussex Africa Centre event, “Emerging Research Landscapes...
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