By Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra Reading Deji Bryce Olukotun’s After the Flare (2017) and Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “What It...
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Read MoreBy Polo B. Moji This article examines elusive freedom and black (un)belonging in France through...
Read MoreBy Phyllis Clark Taoua & Grace A. Musila This introduction to a special issue on...
Read MoreThe Executive Council of the African Literature Association stands in support of Ugandan novelist Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, author of The Greedy Barbarian and Banana Republic: Where Writing is Treasonous, and 2021 recipient of the PEN 2021 Pinter International Writer of Courage...
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A Roundtable for the African Literature Association Annual conference: Nairobi, June 25-28, 2025 In the...
Read MoreThe 2024 Aidoo-Snyder creative book prize will be given for the best creative work by...
Read MoreRevised deadline for proposals/abstracts: December 10, 2024 Editors: Rebecca Fasselt and Joya Uraizee African writers...
Read More3-day live symposium and festival at Goldsmiths University London from 2-4 Feb 2024. Sessions include...
Read MoreSankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature is accepting scholarly article submissions for...
Read MoreIn their introduction to the special edition of African Literature Today captioned “Environmental Transformations,” Cajetan Iheka and Stephanie Newell...
Read MoreThe Carter G. Woodson Institute seeks applications for Post-doctoral ResearchAssociates. This is a one-year (12...
The Carter G. Woodson Institute’s distinguished fellowship is a two-year residential fellowship for pre-doctoral students...
Harvard Divinity School invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track appointment to thePrince Alwaleed bin...
RECRUITMENT DESCRIPTIONThe Department of English at UCLA is pleased to invite applications for a tenure-track...
The Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at...