{"id":1308,"date":"2013-06-14T16:58:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scolma.org\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2013-06-14T17:05:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T16:05:17","slug":"writing-africas-futures-5th-july-2013-at-the-british-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/?p=1308","title":{"rendered":"Writing Africa&#8217;s Futures, 5th July 2013 at the British Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yiv1999038343\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">WRITING AFRICA&#8217;S FUTURES <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Friday, 5 July, 14:00\u201317:00<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">FREE (booking recommended) at the British Library Conference Centre, London<br \/>\n<\/span><a title=\"blocked::http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/whatson\/events\/event145399.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/whatson\/events\/event145399.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/whatson\/events\/event145399.html<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">As part of the \u2018Africa Writes\u2019 festival and in collaboration with the Caine Prize, the Royal African Society and the British Library, this event celebrates 50 years of African Studies Association UK by featuring a panel discussion with acclaimed authors <strong>Doreen Baingana<\/strong> and <strong>Zoe Wicomb<\/strong> (pictured), chaired by the ASAUK President <strong>Stephanie Newell<\/strong>. The discussion will be followed by interviews and readings with the five Caine short-listed writers for 2013: <strong>Elnathan John, Tope Folarin, Pede Hollist, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim <\/strong>and<strong> Chinelo Okparanta,<\/strong> chaired by Doreen Baingana. <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Each year, the Caine Prize for African Literature maps new directions in contemporary writing. This session offers an in-depth discussion of the continent\u2019s flourishing literary cultures and futures, where we will explore the new themes, techniques and genres being adopted by contemporary African writers and ask: where is African writing going in the 21st century? And, what can the literatures of Africa tell us about Africa itself? <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Further information on the Africa Writes festival is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalafricansociety.org\/africawrites2013\">here<\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0WRITING AFRICA&#8217;S FUTURES \u00a0 Friday, 5 July, 14:00\u201317:00 \u00a0 FREE (booking recommended) at the British Library Conference Centre, London http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/whatson\/events\/event145399.html \u00a0 As part of the \u2018Africa Writes\u2019 festival and in collaboration with the Caine Prize, the Royal African Society and the British Library, this event celebrates 50 years of African Studies Association UK by featuring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}