Images from the conference
Stephanie Newell of the University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Christine Kanyengo of the University of Zambia Library, the keynote speaker
Amidu Sanni of Lagos State University, Nigeria
Tony Kirk-Greene of St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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/
ASAUK/RAS members are entitled to a registration discount as are students and student ASAUK/RAS members.
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