Skip to content
Member Links
  • Member Login
  • About the ALA
    • Mission Statement
    • Governance & Officers
    • Caucuses and Committees
    • ALA Constitution and Bylaws
    • ALA Resolutions and Executive Letters
    • Minutes of Meetings (Members Only)
    • Privacy Policy for the ALA
  • Membership
    • Join/Renew Membership
    • Donate to the ALA
    • A Statement on Professionalism
    • In Memorium
      • Departed Members of the ALA
      • Commemorations
  • Announcements
    • 2023 Elections
    • 2023 Award Nominations
    • Calls for Papers and Proposals
    • Job Postings
  • Conferences
    • Annual Conference
    • Past Conferences
  • Publications
    • JALA
      • About JALA
      • JALA Subscriptions for Institutions and Non-Members
  • Awards
    • The Fonlon-Nichols Award
    • Book of the Year Award – Scholarship
    • First Book Award
    • Book of the Year Award – Creative Writing
    • Best Short Story Award
    • Abioseh Porter Best Essay Award
    • Graduate Student Best Essay Award
    • Distinguished Member Award
    • Service Awards
    • Travel Awards
  • Statements
    • Recent Violations of Academic Freedom and Shared Governance (2023)
    • Statement in Solidarity with Tsitsi Dangarembga
    • Statement of Solidarity with Kakwenza Rukirabashaija
    • An appeal for the salvation of the cultural heritage of Tigray
    • Statement on the Detention of Tsitsi Dangarembga
    • ALA Endorses AAUP Statement on Racial Justice in Higher Education
    • Statement on the Killing of George Floyd
    • Statement in Response to Reported Remarks about Africans by the President of the United States
    • The Detention of Patrice Nganang
    • Assault of Binyavanga Wainaina
    • The Deportation of Ishtiyaq Shukri
    • Attacks on African Migrants
    • Garissa University Attack
    • Recent Updates
    • Remembering Nelson R. Mandela
    • Remembering Chinua Achebe
JALA
Elections
Membership
Annual Conference
Recent Violations of Academic Freedom and Shared Governance (2023)
ALA Lecture Series - April 1

Recent JALA Articles

“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...

Read More

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...

Read More

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...

Read More

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...

Read More

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...

ALA Oral History Project

ALA Oral History Project

Click here for more information about the ALA Oral History Project.

Donate to the ALA

The ALA welcomes additional voluntary contributions. To make your donation, follow the directions on this page. You will be taken to the ALA's secure donation page, operated by PayPal. You can choose to donate with a credit/bank card or a...

Calls For Papers

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...

Read More

Mashariki (Eastern African) Literary and Cultural Studies Conference

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023

Aesthetics and Interpretative Practices across East African Literary and Cultural Imaginaries The 6th Mashariki (Eastern...

Read More

Sistah Sistah Foundation: African Women’s Tales

February 6, 2023February 27, 2023

Sista Sistah Foundation is excited to announce a new project: An African Feminist anthology meant...

Read More

The Second Annual Haitian Heritage International Conference

February 6, 2023February 27, 2023

Haiti and Africa: Unearthing and Exploring the Roots, Connections, and Possibilities The Second Annual Haitian...

Read More

Panel on African genre “rewritings,” European Conference on African Studies

January 10, 2023January 10, 2023

The European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) 2023 will take place from May 31 to...

Read More

JALA: Handling and Mishandling African-Language Texts

November 14, 2022November 14, 2022

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

Read More

Job Postings

Humanities-based Racial and Social Justice Post Doctoral Scholar – Ohio State University

The Department of African-American and African Studies (AAAS) at The Ohio State University seeks two...

Literacy Curriculum Developer – The Gambia Academy

The Gambia Academy announces a search for a skilled Literacy Curriculum Developer to launch our...

Instructor of French and Francophone Language and Culture

Instructor - French Immersion Concordia Language Villages Language Training Center is seeking Instructors of French...

Academic Professional Associate and Assistant Director – University of Georgia

Academic Professional Associate and Assistant Director- African Studies Institute The African Studies Institute at the...

Armstead Robinson Endowed Professorship in 19th century African American History

The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of...

Contact

Ph 315.781.3491
Fx 315.781.3822

ALA Headquarters
Hobart & William Smith Colleges
300 Pulteney Street
Geneva, NY 14456

The ALA Headquarters is run by James McCorkle

The ALA Webmaster is Matthew H. Brown

Current ALA Officers are listed here.

Connect with the ALA

Facebook Logo Twitter Logo

Copyright. All rights reserved.
Proudly powered by WordPress | Education Hub by WEN Themes