The W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Fellows 2022, including Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Panashe Chigumadzi, were announced on May 5, 2022. The W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute is part of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research located at Harvard University. Its main work is in the provision of […]
Maaza Mengiste and Dinaw Mengistu are among the Guggenheim Fellows 2022 announced on Thursday, April 7, 2022. Guggenheim Fellowships are grants awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those “who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.” The fellowship has been awarded to […]
Dr Micere Mugo will give the annual British Institute in East Africa Lecture on Thursday, February 17, 2022, at 7 pm EAT/4 pm GMT. Her discussant will be Dr Besi Muhonja. The British Institute in Eastern Africa exists to promote research in all the disciplines in the humanities and social sciences within the wider region […]
Ato Quayson’s book Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature was been named the winner of the Warren–Brooks Award 2021 on Thursday, February 3, 2022. The Warren–Brooks Award for literary criticism is awarded for outstanding literary criticism originally published in English in the United States of America. It is given in those years when a book, or other […]
The winners of the Palestine Book Awards 2021 was announced on Wednesday, November 24, 2021. The Palestine Book Awards were set up to honour the best new books about any aspect of Palestine in English in 2012. Some of the winners have been Isabella Hammad, Noura Erakat, Nabil Anani, Ghassan Zaqtanhas, Reja-e Busailah, Susan Abulhawa, […]
Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek was announced a Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow 2020-21 on November 30, 2020. The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Endowment for the Humanities funds the Shadbolt Fellowship Program at the Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. The program is a means of increasing the visibility of the contributions of the humanities and […]
The winners of the Palestine Book Awards 2020 were announced at a virtual ceremony on November 6, 2020. The annual Palestine Book Awards were set up to honour the best new books about any aspect of Palestine in English in 2012. Some of the winners have been Isabella Hammad, Noura Erakat, Nabil Anani, Ghassan Zaqtanhas, […]
We give you a list of events across the African and Black Literature world you can attend in November 2020. Send us your event to add to this list. November 1 November 2 November 3 November 4 Event: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim to kick-off James Murua Literary LiveStream Event Type: LiveStream Venue: […]
In our continuing monthly series, we share opportunities for those who wish to submit work be it poetry, prose, or other related arts in October 2020. Commonwealth Short Story Prize The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words). Regional winners each receive £2,500 and the opportunity […]
Tsitsi Dangarembga was appointed the University of East Anglia International Chair of Creative Writing (Africa) on September 29, 2020. Tsitsi Dangarembga is one of the important writers working in the last fifty years. Her debut novel Nervous Conditions (1988) was hailed by Doris Lessing as one of the most important novels of the twentieth century […]
Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek is the Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer in Residence 2020-2021 at the Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Otoniya Juliane Okot Bitek is the writer of 100 Days (University of Alberta 2016), a book of poetry that reflects on the meaning of memory two decades after the Rwanda genocide. The […]
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Dr Jacinta Victoria Muinde, and Harris Dousemetzis were the winners at the African Studies Association UK awards 2020 announced on September 10, 2020. The African Studies Association of the United Kingdom was formed “to advance African studies, particularly in the United Kingdom, by providing facilities for the interchange of information and ideas and […]
Ngala Chome was announced the winner of the Royal African Society’s African Author Prize 2018-2019 on June 15, 2020. The African Author Prize from the Royal African Society’s African Journal is awarded for the best article published by an author based in an African institution, or an African PhD student based in an overseas university. […]
