Caine Prize Reading Group Event
Saturday 4th July, 11.00 – 12.00, FREE: This is an event for reading group members to meet the short-listed writers and discuss their stories.
All Events
West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song
Saturday 4th July, 10.00-10.45 A preview of the British Library’s forthcoming exhibition with Dr Marion Wallace, Lead Curator, African Collections ‘West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song’ is the British Library’s next major exhibition, opening on 16 October 2015 and running until…
Romance in the Digital Age
Saturday 4 July, 12.15 – 13.15, FREE – Our panel discusses the changing nature of romance publishing, examining how current modes of digital distribution are opening up new possibilities for authors and publishers across Africa.
From Pasta to Pigfoot by Frances Mensah Williams
Saturday 4 July, 13.30 – 14.15, FREE
African Creative Non-fiction?: Moving the Boundaries
Saturday 4 July 14:30 – 15:30 FREE
Contemporary African Lyrics: Poetry in Performance
Saturday 4 July, 15:45 – 16:30, FREE
New Nigerian Fiction
Sunday 5 July, 12.15 – 13.15, FREE
Africa in Translation: What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Friday 3 July, 10:15 – 13.00, FREE Our annual translation symposium this year focuses on Love, taking Ankara Press’s ground-breaking Valentine’s Day Anthology of African Romance as a starting point.
Charting New Platforms, Ideas and Forms: The Place of Literary Magazines in African Literature
Charting New Platforms, Ideas and Forms: The Place of Literary Magazines in African Literature Sunday 5 July 13.30 – 14.30, FREE With Kinsi Abdulleh, Editor of SCARF; Kadija George, Editor of Sable; Billy Kahora, Editor of Kwani?and Associate Editor of Chimurenga Chronic and Ndinda Kioko,…
Emergent Discourse on African Literature
Friday 3 July, 14.00 – 15.30, Free