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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

The Britain Zimbabwe Society’s Annual Research Day 2012 ‘Zimbabwe and the Region’

The Britain Zimbabwe Society’s annual research day will be held on the 16th June at St. Antony’s College, Oxford

This year participants will explore the historical and contemporary connections between Zimbabwe and her neighbours.

We are pleased to announce our keynote speakers this year will be Professor Jack Spence, OBE (King’s College London) and Professor Welshman Ncube (Zimbabwe Minister for Commerce and Trade – tbc). Other speakers include: Timothy Scarnecchia; Joseph Mujere; Francis Musoni; Maxim Bolt; Miles Tendi; Andrew Mutandwa; Jocelyn Alexander; Hugh Macmillan; JoAnn McGregor; Tinashe Nyamunda and Ushehwedu Kufakurinani. Publishers Zed Books (Africa Now, African Arguments and Africa in the New Millennium Series) and James Currey will be selling a selection of their books throughout the day and the event will conclude with a book launch and drinks reception.

see    http://britainzimbabwesociety.wordpress.com/events/

Registration fees (for attendance only): £30 standard; £20 BZS members; £15 students and unwaged.

To register in advance please contact Marieke Clarke: mariekefclarke@pop3.poptel.org.uk

Appeal for Bulawayo Public Library

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Bulawayo Public Library (Zimbabwe) is currently in dire financial straits. For more info on the situation and the Library’s appeal for help, see http://www.zddt.org/appeal-for-bulawayo-library-0306.html.

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