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Nigerian author: Chukwuemeka Ike awarded Fonlon-Nichols Award
2008-05-22 21:32:00 Source: African Book Collective Here is the ABC Author blurb for: Chukwuemeka Ike IKE, (Vincent) Chukwuemeka (1931-), Nigerian novelist, was born in eastern Nigeria and educated at the University of Ibadan and at Stanford in the USA. As an educator, Ike has contributed to the intellectual and cultural development of Africa in important administrative positions at Nigerian universities ...
Egypt: Literary Platform for Young Arab Writers ?Safha Jadida?
2008-05-16 08:58:00 Source: OCPA 204 Literary Platform for Young Arab Writers “Safha Jadida” The 4th annual Literary Platform for Young Arab Writers “Safha Jadida” will be held in Cairo, Egypt during the period from 22 to 29 July 2008. “Safha Jadida” is organized by Culture Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy). This year a group of young Arab writers between the ...
CFP: AFRICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION APRIL 15- 19, 2009
2008-05-13 19:54:00 AFRICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION 35TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE APRIL 15- 19, 2009 UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT FIRST CALL FOR PANELS, ROUNDTABLES, AND PAPERS GENERAL THEME: Africa and Blackness in World Literature and Visual Arts The past two ALA conferences focused on various ways African and African Diaspora literature has functioned as a cultural catalyst that nurtures black people’s subjectivity in the age of globalization. As a ...
Nigeria Conference: Chinua Achebe and the Re-invention of Africa, Ife, Nige
2008-05-12 17:43:00 Cross-posted from H-AfrArts H-Net Network for African Expressive Culture E -Mail: H-AFRARTS@H-NET.MSU.EDU WWW: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~arts-web/ TFA@50: CELEBRATING A WORLD CLASSIC. On June, 17 2008, it will be fifty years since Chinua Achebe?s novel, Things Fall Apart went into circulation from the Heinemann press in London. Since then, it has been translated into at least 45 world languages and has featured on the literature reading ...
Nigeria: Romance books in Nigeria?s Muslim north address the meaning of lov
2008-05-06 15:29:00 Source: Kuwait Times Each evening, headscarf-shrouded women seeking romantic advice gather at book stalls lining a rush-hour intersection in Nigeria’s Islamic heartland. With the sun setting red behind a nearby mosque, the women thumb through northern Nigeria’s unique, female-authored literary offerings: cheaply bound but popular volumes that address issues confronting women in a Shariah society: courtship, ...
African book: WHISPER TO MY ACHING HEART - Alila
2008-04-29 13:20:00 Joseph R. Alila’s new novel ?WHISPER TO MY ACHING HEART? (ISBN 1438207514) is now available through the link http://www.createspace.com/3341-373
African book: Sins of Our Hearts - Alila
2008-04-18 17:52:00 About the author: Dr. Joseph R. Alila was born in 1956 in Ndhiwa, Kenya. Alila is a widely-traveled scientist and teacher. “Sins of Our Hearts” is Alila’s fourth novel, coming soon after such works of fiction as “Sunset on Polygamy” (PublishAmerica) and “The Milayi Curse” (Lulu). Sins of Our Hearts By Joseph R. Alila A young Pastor, Rew ...
African Book Review: SOULS FORGOTTEN BY FRANCIS B. NYAMNJOH
2008-03-29 20:48:00 Source: Pambazuka News BOOK REVIEW: SOULS FORGOTTEN BY FRANCIS B. NYAMNJOH. Alice Macdonald Langaa Publishers. Bamenda, Cameroon. 2008. [ISBN: 9789956558124, 360 pages, Price: £14.95] The prolific Cameroonian writer and academic Francis Nyamnjoh continues to delight his readers with the publication of his latest novel Souls Forgotten. Souls Forgotten is a bitter indictment of the political and social situation of many African countries. The ...
South Africa: Obituary to Stanley Trapido
2008-03-07 20:45:00 Source: The Guardian Stanley Trapido Leading South African historian and Oxford University lecturer Charles van Onselen The Guardian, Wednesday March 5 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world-/2008/mar/05/southafrica.higher-education Stanley Trapido, who has died after three years of poor health aged 74, was a fellow of Lincoln College and lecturer in the government of new states at Oxford. One of the founding figures in an influential group of emigre ...
Free event: Revisting Chinua Achebe?s Things Fall Apart
2008-03-04 12:54:00 Wendy Urban-Mead The Master of Arts in Teaching Program Bard College <wum@bard.edu> A PREMIER WORK OF LITERATURE TURNS 50 Revisting Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A 50th-Year Retrospective Panel Discussion April 11, 7:00pm Panelists: Chinua Achebe and Jesse Shipley, Bard College Ifi Amadiume, Dartmouth College Simon Gikandi, Princeton University Christine Griffin, Red Hook High School Moderator: Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Dartmouth College Sosnoff Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center for ...
a Tribute to Chinua Achebe on the 50th Anniversary of his novel ?Things Fal
2008-02-14 20:27:00 PEN American Center presents a Tribute to Chinua Achebe on the 50th Anniversary of his novel, Things Fall Apart Tuesday, February 26, 8 p.m., at Town Hall, NYC Featuring Toni Morrison, Chris Abani, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Edwidge Danticat, Suheir Hammad, Ha Jin, and Colum McCann - Introduction by Michael Cunningham “Achebe is gloriously gifted, with the magic of an ...
African book:Africa?s Media: Democracy and the Politics of Belonging
2008-01-28 14:59:00 Source: http://www.nyamnjoh.com/ Amazon.com Africa’s Media: Democracy and the Politics of Belonging By Francis B. Nyamnjoh Review “An exceptionally rich and thought-provoking work. Nyamnjoh gives us a vivid, well researched picture of the new African media landscape, while asking probing questions about both journalistic practice and the meaning of democracy.”–James Ferguson, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford ...
African book: ?Souls Forgotten?, Francis Nyamnjoh?s Latest Novel
2008-01-28 14:04:00 Source: AfricAvenir ?Souls Forgotten?, Francis Nyamnjoh?s Latest Novel This novel is about coming of age and coming to terms in Mimboland. It is also about the fragility of life and the strength of the human spirit. The filth and screaming splendor of the city and the perplexed tranquility of the village are juxtaposed, as the tension and ...
Guinea-Conakry: Remembering Amilcar Cabral
2008-01-28 13:11:00 Source: AfricAvenir (via Kwame Opoku) Remembering Amilcar Cabral: Poet, Revolutionary, Politician and Military Stretegist On 20 January, 1973 Amilcar Cabral was kidnapped in Guinea-Conakry and shot by an assassin in the service of the Portuguese secret police, PIDE. In this article, Kwame Opoku pays tribute to Cabral, who was a symbol of a new leadership emerging on ...
African book: Sunset on Polygamy - Alila
2008-01-08 12:08:00 A novel by Kenyan writer Joseph Alila: Sunset on Polygamy (Paperback) Joseph Alila List price: $19.95 ISBN-10: 1424166845 ISBN-13: 978-1424166848 Available from Amazon.com It is Sunset on Polygamy in Luoland. A near-fatal crisis pits polygamous Jim and younger wives against the hyperjealous first wife, Felicia the Nyadendi, a master of intrigues, who engineers a home-wide mutiny against him. Mutiny ends, and a ...
African poetry: Thirteen Curses on Mother Africa - Alila
2008-01-08 11:59:00 I’m pleased to feature another book by Kenyan writer Joseph Alila. This time it is a book of poetry. Thirteen Curses on Mother Africa (Paperback) by Joseph, R Alila (Author) List Price: $19.50 # ISBN-10: 143031592X # ISBN-13: 978-1430315926 Available from Amazon.com Joseph Alila’s “Thirteen Curses on Mother Africa” is a mournful collection of poems on the cultural, social, economic, political, and ...
African books: two new novels - Joseph R. Alila
2008-01-01 21:30:00 THE WISE ONE OF RAMOGILAND by JOSEPH R. ALILA “In The Wise One of Ramogiland,” Joseph R. Alila adresses the role of spirituality in life and governnance in a society in cultural and political transitions. In this fictional novel, Alila explores the work of a woman of wisdom (Nyangi), her Ramogi people, their ways, their ...
Script Writing Competition for Sub-Saharan Africa
2007-12-17 21:35:00 Source: Afromusing Script Writing Competition for Sub-Saharan Africa If you know people in Radio, this would be an opportunity to pass along to them.The Developing Countries Farm Radio Network (DCFRN) and the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) have launched the African Farmers? Strategies for Coping with Climate Change, a scriptwriting competition for radio broadcasters. ...
African writers wanted by African networking organisation
2007-11-29 12:37:00 From time to time I receive notice of Africa related job opportunities. African Global Networks are looking for writers on various subjects. Please read the following advert carefully and respond to Akpesiri Iyovwaye www.africangn.net Telephone: +44 7956 475 245 mailto:info@africangn.net Please do NOT send Sociolingo your CV or job application, send it to the above address. ...
Man Booker International Prize 2007
2007-06-30 05:48:00 CHINUA ACHEBE - (courtesy:- REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski)Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist, was awarded the Man Booker International Prize 2007. He surpassed the nominees like Margaret Atwood, Dorris Lessing, Michael Ondaatje, Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie. The judging panel consisted of Elaine Showalter, Nadine Gordimer and Colm Tóibin. This prize is an international literary award given every two years. It is bestowed upon a living author of any nationality for fiction published in English or one available in English translation. The cash prize for this prestigious award is $120,000. Achebe himself was not present for the award ceremony held in Oxford on June 28, 2007.Achebe, now 76 years old, is best known for his first novel. 'Things Fall Apart' written in 1958. The other of his famous novels is 'Anthills of the Savannah' published more than 30 years later.Achebe is pained at the misrepresentation of Africans in literature and he has de...
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Zimbabwe: Poetry submissions
2007-05-23 18:02:00 Zimbabwe: Poetry submissions 2007-05-16 This is a call for poetry reflecting on experiences in Zimbabwe, past and present. Poets must also reflect on the spirit of this country’s people through words that survive and vibrate. For further information: write to Tinashe Mushakavanhu: tinashem@mazwi.net (Please don’t send enquiries to Sociolingo! Write to Tinashe)
New Ghanaian Writers
2007-04-29 21:16:00 The following article was seen on BBC Africa Beyond http://www.bbc.co.uk/africabeyo-nd/africanarts/18683.shtml New Ghanaian Writers In his travels to Ghana, Koye Oyedeji encountered several members of the new crop of literary talent making their presence felt in the country and beyond. On the surface, a whole calendar of celebrations dedicated to 50 years of independence in Ghana appears to be the ...
Global Conference Tackles Kenyan literature and culture
2007-04-20 13:46:00 The following item from The East African Standard was seen on All Africa.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/20-0704090063.html Global Conference Tackles Kenyan Arts The East African Standard (Nairobi) OPINION April 8, 2007 Posted to the web April 9, 2007 By Evan Mwangi Nairobi Kenyan literature and culture was the subject of various panels at this year’s African Literature Association at Morgantown West Virginia, ... |
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