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Of freedom and the problem of the future in contemporary diasporic African speculative fiction

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023

By Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra Reading Deji Bryce Olukotun’s After the Flare (2017) and Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “What It...

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Queer(ing) freedom: rewriting coming-out narratives in contemporary Maghrebian literary production

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023

By Gibson Ncube This article analyses how contemporary writers of Maghrebian descent make use of...

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Blackness blurred: (un)belonging, kinship, and métissage in Marie NDiaye’s Ladivine

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023

By Polo B. Moji  This article examines elusive freedom and black (un)belonging in France through...

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Of freedom and literature in Africa and the diaspora

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023

By Phyllis Clark Taoua & Grace A. Musila This introduction to a special issue on...

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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

14th Annual African, African American, and Diaspora Studies (AAAD) Interdisciplinary Conference: “Reckoning”

August 28, 2023August 28, 2023

This year’s theme is “Reckoning,” a term that evokes the multitudinous ways responsibility and accountability...

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Comicalités Special Issue ⎻ Comics and Ecopolitics

April 27, 2023August 28, 2023

This special issue invites considerations of comics’ ecopolitical potential. Ecopolitics, and the intersections between environmentalism...

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Journal of African Cinemas ⎻ “Artistic Epistemologies: Black Cinema and the Idea of Africa

April 20, 2023April 20, 2023

Full CFP description: Black Cinema and the Idea of Africa: Journal of African Cinemas CFP...

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ACTIO NOVA: Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature ⎻ “Instances of agency and agonism in postcolonial black-African literature”

April 18, 2023April 18, 2023

ACTIO NOVA ⎻ Journal of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature Monograph 6 ⎻ "Instances of...

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Journal of African Cinemas ⎻ Bongo Movies: A Study of the New Swahili Cinema

April 18, 2023April 18, 2023

 The Volume aims at describing and analyzing the ways in which Bongo movies narratives locate...

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African Literature Today (ALT) 42: Oral and Written African Poetry and Poetics

March 29, 2023March 29, 2023

African Literature Today plans to publish a special issue (ALT 42) with a focus on...

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Job Postings

Assistant Professor of English and Writing, The University of Tampa

The Department of English and Writing within the College of Arts and Letters at The...

Associate Professor of African American and African Diasporic Literature, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

The Department of Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) invites applications...

Assistant Professor ⎻ African / African Diasporic Literature ⎻ University of Missouri

The English department at the University of Missouri, a public land-grant research university in the...

Assistant Professor – African and African Diaspora Literatures and Culture – University of California, Berkeley

The Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of English at the University of California,...

Associate Professorship, Department of African Literature, WITS

Associate Professor, African Literature - School of Literature, Language and Media Department The Department of...

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