CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS(African Studies, Film Studies) Title: Aesthetics of the Future: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Bekolo Editor: P. Julie Papaioannou, Ph.D.Associate Professor of Instruction in Frenchand Francophone StudiesFrench Language CoordinatorModern Languages and CulturesLattimore 427University of RochesterRochester, NY 14627julie.papaioannou@rochester.edu Aesthetics Read More …
Category: CFPs
CFP: African Literature Comes of Age
AFRICAN LITERATURE TODAY (ALT) 40African Literature Comes of AgeCall for Papers The publication of the seminal volume African Literature Comes of Age, by C.D. Narasimhaiah (India) and Ernest N. Emenyonu (Nigeria), in 1988 generated the consciousness that African Literature had Read More …
CFP: SECURING THE AFRICAN FAMILY: OUR SOUL, OUR HEALTH, OUR WEALTH.
PANAFEST FOUNDATION GHANA NATIONAL PANAFEST PLANNING COMMITTEE AND UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COASTPROUDLY ANNOUNCE:PANAFEST INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM 2021 DATE: Monday July 26 — Wednesday July 28, 2021VENUE: University of Cape Coast, Ghana, & in Virtual Space CALL FOR PAPERSTheme: SECURING THE AFRICAN Read More …
African Sound Studies – Panel 2021 ASA
African Sound Studies Panel 2021 African Studies Association Meeting Sound studies has exploded over the past decade, drawing heightened attention to how sound and sonic media shape both the everyday and the exceptional. But even as sound studies has attended Read More …
RAL Special Issue on Ama Ata Aidoo
CALL FOR PAPERS—RAL Special Issue on Ama Ata Aidoo Guest Editors: Esther Pujolras-Noguer and Kwaku Larbi Korang I have been happy being me: an African Read More …
Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets – APBF
The African Poetry Book Fund, in partnership with Prairie Schooner and the University of Nebraska, promotes and advances the development and publication of the poetic arts through its book series, contests, workshops, and seminars and through its collaborations with publishers, festivals, booking 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 …
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 …