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Why is Translation Important?: Publishing African Literature Across Languages
AiW Guest: Edwige-Renée DRO As part of Writivism 2016, University of Bristol, Stellenbosch University and the Centre for African Cultural Excellence collaborated to bring together an Arts Management...
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Establishing a New Literary Prize: The Huza Press Award for Fiction
AiW Guest: Louise Umutoni As part of Writivism 2016, University of Bristol, Stellenbosch University and the Centre for African Cultural Excellence collaborated to bring together an Arts Management and...
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‘El Hadji Sy. At First I Thought I was Dancing’ in Warsaw: Process,...
AiW Guest: Karolina Marcinkowska This week, AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin continues her new series examining the relationship between Africa and Eastern/Central Europe, with this guest piece by Karolina...
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“I write what I like”: Aké Arts & Book Festival 2016 in Abeokuta, Nigeria
AiW Guest: Nathan Suhr-Sytsma The fourth incarnation of the Aké Arts & Book Festival took place 15-19 November 2016, in Abeokuta, Nigeria, the birthplace of Wole Soyinka, and shares a name with...
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“In from the Cold War”: a colloquium on Eastern Europe, Africa and cultural...
AiW Guest: Iolanda Vasile This week, AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin continues her series examining the relationship between Africa and Eastern/Central Europe with this guest piece by Iolanda Vasile about...
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Warsaw in the 1980’s Through African Eyes
AiW Guest Mamdou Diouf Léopold Sédar Senghor addressing the United Nations General Assembly, 1961 (source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leopold-Senghor) I have lived in Warsaw for over thirty...
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Q&A: Uche Peter Umez interviews poet Niran Okewole
AiW Guest: Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike Niran Okewole is the author of the widely-acclaimed Logarhythms. His poems have won the MUSON Festival Poetry Prizes in 2002 and 2003, and the Sawubona Music...
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In Black and White… Reflections from studies about Black people in everyday...
AiW Guest: Margaret Amaka Ohia My studies of discursive representations of Black people in the Polish language employ a critical, applied research methodology, which requires that the researcher be a...
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Worthy of Note: the “Red Africa” series and the exhibition “Things Fall Apart”
AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin continues her series examining the relationship between Africa and Eastern/Central Europe. Red Africa Series at Calvert 22 Gallery in London,...
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Q&A: poet-psychiatrist Femi Oyebode on literature, medical humanities and the...
AiW Guest: Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè Femi Oyebode is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Birmingham, UK, and the current author of Sim’s Symptoms in the Mind (4th edition). His other books...
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African literature and the next generation of writing back
AiW Guest: Rashna Batliwala Singh In his now iconic essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent” T. S. Eliot famously says “No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His...
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76 – a beautifully-told film about Nigeria’s pre-democracy years
AiW Guest: Yemisi Arowosafe Telling a historical tale as authentically and accurately as possible is one that every good story teller strives to attain. The Nigerian pre-democracy story is one that has...
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Exhibition preview: Lady Skollie’s “Lust Politics” — at London’s Tyburn...
AiW Guest: Sana Goyal Whet your appetite in advance of your visit to Lady Skollie’s Lust Politics at London’s Tyburn Gallery, where the South African artist serves up a platter of playful, pleasurable,...
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Ake Review 2015: Engaging the Fringe Through Literature
AiW Guest: Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè The official annual Ake Arts and Book Festival journal, Ake Review, gives insights into the festival guests’ takes on many issues, from the mundane to the atypical,...
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Ake Review 2015: interviews, short fiction and art
AiW Guest: Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè Tọ́pẹ́ Salaudeen-Adégòkè continues his in-depth discussion of the Ake Review 2015. Read Part I, which discusses poetry, here. Ten Questions: African writers discuss...
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After a long break, Nigerian Theatre picks up
AiW Guest: Pelu Awofeso Scene from ‘Tribute to Broadway’. Photo by Ajibola Fasola. Actor and performance coach Toyin Oshinaike is teaching 80 thespians in an actors’ workshop at the Lagos Theatre...
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South African author, Henrietta Rose-Innes, on cityscapes, self-contained...
AiW Guest: Sana Goyal Edited excerpts from the Conversations in Bloomsbury event (March 10, 2017), held at SOAS, London, and which hosted Henrietta Rose-Innes and Brian Chikwava. When Brian Chikwava...
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“German Colonialism: Fragments Past and Present” at The Deutsches...
AiW Author: Katarzyna Kubin “In the late 19th and early 20th century, the German Empire was one of the largest European colonial powers,” states the Foreword to the catalogue for the Deutsches...
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Q&A: Beautiful Nubia: “Our music is art on a journey”
AiW Guest: Tope Salaudeen-Adegoke Beautiful Nubia, the stage name for Segun Akinlolu, is widely acclaimed by music critics as Nigeria’s foremost contemporary folklorist. He is an artist with a vibrant...
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The fifth Keiskamma Guernica: Guernica Remakings – an exhibition, Brighton UK.
AiW Guest: Nicola Ashmore. Guernica Remakings line drawing, Ryan Wooding, 2017. This post marks the first in an AiW series introducing the project and upcoming exhibition, Guernica Remakings, curated...
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