Photo of the Week: #005

August 17, 2015

#THIS: Hannah Pool, Journalist and Curator, Africa Utopia at Africa Writes, the Royal African Society's annual literature festival, chairing 'African Books to I...

Ikhide: On reading A. Igoni Barrett’s Blackass: White face, Black butt

August 17, 2015

It is now a near-cliché, but it is the truth; African literature is undergoing a renaissance. The reader who loves fiction is enjoying an embarrassment of riche...

“Creative Economies creating thriving African cities” Interview: Dr Jenny Mbaye – By Rachel Stella Jenkins

July 28, 2015

Interview - Dr. Jenny Mbaye Lecturer in Culture and Creative Industries, City University, London Through my work I have the fortunate opportunity to meet i...

Three African and African Diasporan literary magazines that everyone should know

June 30, 2015

Ahead of Africa Writes, which this year hosts a panel on literary magazines that have have shaped the production and reception of African literature and ideas, ...

Ten Gay Characters from African Literature That Everyone Should Know

May 6, 2015

Dele Meiji Fatunla and I are back again with another list - this time on ten gay characters from African Literature Everyone Should Know. I love lists - even th...

Black Dandyism

March 31, 2015 / £8

Michèle Mendelssohn considers the dandy in early 20th-century African-American culture 20th-century dandyism was deeply rooted in 19th-century literary and perf...

The Rise and Rise of African Literary Residencies

February 5, 2015

Chimamanda Adichie’s got a short story, “Jumping Monkey Hill”, in which her protagonist, Ujunwa, a young Nigerian writer is stuck in a literary retreat in Cape ...

50 Books By African Men That Everyone Should Read

January 29, 2015

So…a while back, ahead of Africa Writes,  in collaboration with the Bookshy Blogger’s Zahrah Nessbit-Ahmed, we published a list of 25 Books by African Women tha...

The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician By Tendai Huchu: Reviewed By Philani A Nyoni – ‘a universal and truly illuminating work’

January 16, 2015

Tendai Huchu announced his arrival on the literary scene with his novel The Hairdresser Of Harare, in his second offering, The Maestro, The Magistrate & The...

CAS 50th Anniversary Lecture: Yinka Shonibare MBE RA

March 31, 2015 / FREE

The Centre of African Studies is honoured to welcome the renowned artist Yinka Shonibare MBE RA to deliver our annual lecture, marking the 50th anniversary of t...