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“Daughterly texts”: fathers and their daughters in Zoë Wicomb’s You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun

July 29, 2020October 16, 2020

By Emmanuel Ngwira This article analyzes how the relationship between fathers and daughters is portrayed...

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Traumatic memory, autobiography and history in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s memoirs and A Grain of Wheat

May 13, 2020October 16, 2020

By Syned Mthatiwa The publication of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s childhood memoirs, Dreams in a Time...

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Bearing witness and documenting suffering in two Moroccan prison memoirs: Tazmamart: Cell 10 and from Skhirat to Tazmamart: a round trip ticket to hell

April 30, 2020October 16, 2020

By Elham T. Hussein This paper compares and contrasts two Moroccan prison memoirs: Tazmamart: Cell...

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Lake lore: a study of lacustrine artistic representations in the Malawian imaginary

April 20, 2020October 16, 2020

By Ken Junior Lipenga Lake Malawi, with its flora and fauna, exists as a pervasive...

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Statement of Solidarity with Kakwenza Rukirabashaija

The 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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Calls For Papers

CFP: AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY (ALT) 41: African Literature in African Languages

June 28, 2022June 28, 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS (CFP) AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY (ALT) 41: African Literature in African Languages Guest...

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CFP: Celebrating the Work and Thought of Bhekizizwe Peterson

June 22, 2022June 22, 2022

Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation6th NEST International Conference, 29th Sept – 1 Oct 2022, University...

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CFP: Literary Self-Translation in the 21st Century: A Global View (Journal of Literary Multilingualism )

June 8, 2022June 8, 2022

Journal of Literary Multilingualism ISSN: 2667-324X Call for Papers Special Issue 3/2023: Literary Self-Translation in...

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JALA: Handling and Mishandling African-Language Texts

March 17, 2022March 18, 2022

The Journal of African Literature Association invites essays for a special issue on literature and...

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CFP: MLA 2022 Panel on Tejumola Olaniyan

March 11, 2022March 11, 2022

MLA 2022 (San Francisco) LLC African to 1990: Calls for Papers Tejumola Olaniyan (1959-2019): Critical...

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CFP: Aquatic Cartographies: Oceanic Imaginaries, Histories and Identities

February 5, 2022June 8, 2022

Aquatic Cartographies: Oceanic Imaginaries, Histories and IdentitiesRatnakara. Indian Ocean Literatures and CulturesUniversitat de Lleida, Catalonia...

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Job Postings

Director of the African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Center at James Madison University

James Madison University (JMU) is seeking applicants for the Director of the African, African American,...

Professor/Associate Professor of African literature – Duke University

Professor/Associate Professor of African literature and/or Cultural Studies Duke University, English Department Link to full...

Assistant Professor of French – Oglethorpe University

  Assistant Professor of French Oglethorpe University, a small liberal arts institution located in Atlanta,...

Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies Pre-doctoral Fellow

Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies Pre-doctoral Fellow The Carter G. Woodson...

African-American and African Studies Postdoctoral Research Associate – University of VA

Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies Postdoctoral Research Associate The Carter G....

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