TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN BLACK STUDIES AND FRENCH OR SPANISH https://careers.providence.edu/postings/5084 The Department of Foreign Language Studies and the Black Studies Program at Providence College invite applications for a full-time joint tenure-track Assistant Professor position in French or Spanish beginning Read More …
Author: Dan Lenington
JOB: Assistant Professor – African Literatures in English – University of Toronto
African Literatures in English – University of Toronto Date Posted: 10/14/2020Closing Date: 11/30/2020, 11:59PM EDTReq ID: 387Job Category: Faculty – Tenure Stream (continuing)Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & ScienceDepartment: Department of English (51%) / African Studies Program, New College (49%)Campus: St. George (Downtown Toronto) Description: The Department Read More …
Announcing Sahifa, a new platform for research, journalism, art, and literature.
The following announcement was posted on on James Murua’s Literary Blog. Today, Sahifa, a new platform for research, journalism, art, and literature, with a strong focus on Eastern African stories has been launched. Sahifa is a Kiswahili word for blank page. The Read More …
2021 Award Nominations
Nominations are open for the following 2021 ALA awards: –Book of the Year Award—Creative Writing For an outstanding book of African literature (novel, non-fiction prose, play, or poetry collection). –Book of the Year Award—Scholarship For an outstanding book in African Read More …
CFP: ALT 39 Speculative/Science Fiction
Guest Editors: Chimalum Nwankwo & Louisa Uchum Egbunike Articles should not exceed 5,000 words, and should be submitted as a word document to Guest-Editor: Chimalum Nwankwo (chimalumnwankwo@gmail.com) and Series Editor: Ernest N. Emenyonu (eernest@umich.edu) on or before September 30, 2020. Read More …
CFP: 5th Eastern African Literacy and Cultural Studies Conference, Moi University, 6 – 8 September 2021
We invite rigorous, theoretically nuanced reflections on these and related questions. Abstracts and panel proposals responding to one or more of the below questions, not exceeding 300 words, can be emailed to ealcsc2021@gmail.com by 30 November 2020. All abstracts and Read More …
CFP: Anthology – Professor Harry Oludare Garuba
Submissions are accepted until October 30, 2020. Please send single or multiple submissions of poems, stories, tributesand artwork to: othergrammarsoflove@gmail.com, and copy remraj1 atgmail.com. Please send your entry only in word format (not PDF) and indicate yourfull or pen name Read More …
“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
By Emmanuel Ngwira This article analyzes how the relationship between fathers and daughters is portrayed in Zoë Wicomb’s You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun. The paper observes that in these Read More …
Traumatic memory, autobiography and history in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s memoirs and A Grain of Wheat
By Syned Mthatiwa The publication of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s childhood memoirs, Dreams in a Time of War and In the House of the Interpreter, gave his readers a glimpse of his troubled past as a young boy growing up in 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
By Elham T. Hussein This paper compares and contrasts two Moroccan prison memoirs: Tazmamart: Cell 10 and From Skhirat to Tazmamart: A Round Trip Ticket to Hell by Ahmed Marzouki and Mohamed Raiss respectively. The memoirs under discussion can be Read More …