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ASAUK conference draft programme

A draft programme for the ASAUK conference is now available. The conference will  run from 13.30pm on Thursday Sept 6th to 3.30pm on Saturday 8th September 2012 and is held in conjunction with Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) at Leeds University.There are numerous registration options the details of which are given on the ASAUK Conference website http://www.asauk.net/conferences/asauk12.shtml

ASAUK/RAS members are entitled to a registration discount as are students and student ASAUK/RAS members.

Caine prize winner announced

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Caine Prize was won by Rotimi Babatunde for Bombay’s Republic – http://bit.ly/MpYqTO  He will be at African Writers’ Evening Wednesday 4th July   http://bit.ly/KWPh49

Read the story here

http://www.caineprize.com/pdf/2012_Babatunde.pdf

The shortlisted writers were at a Caine Prize bookclub event on Saturday – part of “Africa Writes” festival  –  talking  about their work and inspiration. It has been written up here with photos: http://thetanjara.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/caine-prize-shortlisted-writers-meet.html

Africa Writes 2012

Africa Writes 2012

Date/Time: Saturday 30 June & Sunday 1 July 2012, 12-6PM

Venue: Brunei Gallery Building (SOAS) & Torrington Square

The Royal African Society (RAS) is pleased to present Africa Writes – its inaugural annual literature and book festival celebrating contemporary African writing.

Festival highlights include: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s lecture focusing on the legacy of the African Writers Series (Saturday, 30th June, 6-7:30pm); an audience with the 2012 Caine Prize Shortlisted writers, in collaboration with the Black Reading Group and the London Afro-Caribbean Book Club (Saturday, 30th June, 3-4:30pm); interactive story-telling for children (Sunday, 1st July, 12-1pm); and panel discussions on the current publishing landscape for contemporary African writing and the phenomenon of “Writing Away from Home”, which affects so many African writers living in the Diaspora. The festival’s closing event will be Word from Africa, part of Poetry Parnassus at the Southbank (Sunday, 1st July, 6-10pm).

All events are free and open to the public except for the Chimamanda lecture and Caine Prize event for which you need to  RSVP see:-

http://www.royalafricansociety.org/what-we-do/upcoming-ras-meetings/details/1173-africa-writes-2012.html

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