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Forms of Mobility: Genre, Language, and Media in African Literary Cultures
Speaker: Stephanie Bosch Santana
Introduced by: Moradewun Adejunmobi
Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST/ London, 4:00 PM/ Lagos, 4:00 PM/ Johannesburg, 5:00 PM/ Nairobi, 6:00 PM
China in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century African Literature
Speaker: Duncan Yoon
Introduced by: Gabriel Bámgbóṣé
Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST/ London, 4:00 PM/ Lagos, 4:00 PM/ Johannesburg, 5:00 PM/ Nairobi, 6:00 PM
When the Subaltern Writes: Post-Socialist Ethiopia through the Gaze of a Shele (“Call Girl”)
Speaker: Serawit Debele
Saturday, November 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST/ London, 4:00 PM/ Lagos, 4:00 PM/ Johannesburg, 5:00 PM/ Nairobi, 6:00 PM
Hydrocosmologies and the Rethinking of the Intersection of Gender Diversity and Ecology in Selected Zimbabwean Literary Texts
Speaker: Gibson Ncube
Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 11:00 AM EST/ London, 4:00 PM/ Lagos, 4:00 PM/ Johannesburg, 5:00 PM/ Nairobi, 6:00 PM
Experiments with Form in Contemporary African Realism
Speaker: Grace A. Musila
Saturday, March 28, 2026 at 11:00 AM EST/ London, 4:00 PM/ Lagos, 4:00 PM/ Johannesburg, 5:00 PM/ Nairobi, 6:00 PM
Exploring the Politics of Love, Intimacy and Marriage in Goretti Kyomuhendo’s Whispers from Vera
Speaker: Lynda Gichanda Spencer
Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 11:00 AM EST/ London, 4:00 PM/ Lagos, 4:00 PM/ Johannesburg, 5:00 PM/ Nairobi, 6:00 PM