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Teaching Africa: The Image of Africa in a Survey Course
Africa in Words Guest: Bronwen Everill In my three years of teaching African history at a variety of levels (first, second, and third years; MA students), I have continually been pleasantly surprised...
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Musing On The Etisalat Prize For ‘Fiction’– Sorry ‘Literature’
AiW Guest Toni Kan Literary prizes are strange animals. As subjective as they often are, they usually confer immediate entrée into the rarefied heights of the literary canon. And because they are...
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Event: Sussex Africa Centre. Peter van der Windt, ‘Local institutions and...
AiW Guest: Daniel Watson. At the most recent Sussex Africa Centre event, Peter van der Windt – PhD candidate at Columbia University – presented his research on ‘Local institutions and Cooperation in...
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Book Review: Teju Cole’s ‘Every Day Is for the Thief’
AiW Guest Kristen Roupenian The back matter of Teju Cole’s novel Every Day Is for the Thief refers to an ‘unnamed narrator’, but if this is not meant to be the same character as Julius, our guide...
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A lesson well learned: my internship at the International Slavery Museum in...
Africa in Words Guest: Rianne Walet I am a cultural heritage student from the Netherlands. From September 2013 till February 2014 I had the privilege of doing an internship with the International...
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‘Nairobi Half Life’ (2012 Film) at the 3rd African Popular Cultures Workshop:...
At the end of March we – Katie and Kate – were lucky enough to be involved in organizing the third African Popular Cultures workshop at the University of Sussex. This collaboration between the Sussex...
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Inua Ellams at the African Popular Cultures Workshop: Review
AiW Guest Lilly Kroll Inua Ellams is in a state of flux. He is scrolling through the iPad in front of him, searching for a poem by the American poet Terrance Hayes to read aloud to the crowd of people...
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Roundtable on African Popular Culture and Public Space: Review
AiW Guest Rehab Abdelghany The 3rd African Popular Cultures Workshop hosted at the University of Sussex concluded with a roundtable that brought together six academics and creative writers, who...
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Forward to Freedom: The History of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement,...
Africa in Words Guest Lucy McCann writes: Display box for the badge produced for the ‘Nelson Mandela Freedom at 70’ campaign. The AAM aimed to get 1,000,000 people in Britain wearing the badge on...
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The Absence of African Literature in American Legal Academia
AiW Guest: Dustin Zacks. The American Law and Literature movement consistently draws discussion material from the same wells. Consider a cursory search of just one database, HeinOnline, commonly used...
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Blogging the Caine Prize: Okwiri Oduor’s ‘My Father’s Head’
Okwiri Oduor AiW Guest: Doseline Kiguru As I began to read ‘My Father’s Head’, I thought for a moment that it was going to be yet another Caine Prize story set in church and about cunning priests and...
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Blogging the Caine Prize: Tendai Huchu’s ‘The Intervention’
AiW Guest Anthea Gordon In Binyavanga Wainana’s influential essay ‘How to Write About Africa’, one of his many salient pieces of tongue-in-cheek advice is: ‘be sure to leave the strong impression that...
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Blogging the Caine Prize: Efemia Chela’s ‘Chicken’
AiW Guest Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed Efemia Chela’s ‘Chicken’ initially felt like two different stories told in three parts. This was until I gave it another read and realised its three separate parts tell...
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Q&A: Madhu Krishnan interviews novelist Okey Ndibe at Africa Writes
AiW Guest: Madhu Krishnan Okey Ndibe was born in Eastern Nigeria in 1960. A novelist, political columnist and essayist, he moved to the United States in 1988 at Chinua Achebe’s invitation, helping to...
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Lauren Beukes and C.A. Davids at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
AiW guest: James Smith. Broken Monsters and Broken Dreams I read Broken Monsters on a night flight from Cape Town, on my way to interview Lauren Beukes following her contribution to the Edinburgh Book...
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Ama Ata Aidoo in Conversation: Review, Africa Writes
AiW Guest Réhab Abdelghany Last month, the Royal African Society’s annual Africa Writes Festival brought to the UK an audience with the eminent Ghanaian playwright, poet, novelist and academic, Ama Ata...
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Books for the Masses? Publishing Genre Fiction in Africa: Africa Writes, 13...
AiW Guest Emma Shercliff Review of panel discussion with Bibi Bakare-Yusuf of Cassava Republic Press; Valerie Brandes of Jacaranda Books; Verna Wilkins of Tamarind Books and Susan Yearwood, agent and...
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The Responsibility of Writing in/for/about South Africa – after the Edinburgh...
AiW Guest: James Smith. During the Edinburgh International Book Festival I managed to catch three South African authors, Lauren Buekes and C.A. Davids, and Mark Gevisser. Three authors, writing in...
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Review: Alex Smith’s ‘Devilskein & Dearlove’
‘AiW Guest Kristen Roupenian’ If it has been a long time since you’ve read Frances Hodgson Burnett’s children’s classic The Secret Garden—and if, in the meantime, your memory has been clouded by a...
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Random Snapshots Of Book Hunting In Downtown Nairobi: Part I
AiW Guest Mehul Gohil A friend said “I know Mehul bought a bunch of Delany and so on. On the NBO streets.” Another friend thought which streets? Turned to me and asked “Pray tell, Mehul, where did you...
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