{"id":916,"date":"2012-06-21T15:50:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T14:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scolma.org\/?p=916"},"modified":"2012-06-21T15:51:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T14:51:48","slug":"916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/?p=916","title":{"rendered":"Africa Writes 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-918\" title=\"chimamanda\" src=\"http:\/\/scolma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/chimamanda-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scolma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/chimamanda-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scolma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/chimamanda-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong><em>Africa Writes 2012<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date\/Time: <\/strong>Saturday 30 June &amp; Sunday 1 July 2012, 12-6PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue: <\/strong>Brunei Gallery Building (SOAS) &amp; Torrington Square<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Royal African Society (RAS) is pleased to present <em>Africa Writes<\/em> &#8211; its inaugural annual literature and book festival celebrating contemporary African writing.<\/p>\n<div>Festival highlights include: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie&#8217;s lecture focusing on the legacy of the African Writers Series (Saturday, 30th June, 6-7:30pm); an<em> <\/em>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<em> &#8220;Writing <\/em><em>Away from Home&#8221;<\/em>, which affects so many African writers living in the Diaspora. The festival&#8217;s closing event will be<strong> <\/strong><em>Word from Africa<\/em>, part of <em>Poetry Parnassus<\/em> at the Southbank (Sunday, 1st July, 6-10pm).<\/div>\n<p><strong>All events are free and open to the public except for the Chimamanda lecture and Caine Prize event for which you need to\u00a0 RSVP see:-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.royalafricansociety.org\/what-we-do\/upcoming-ras-meetings\/details\/1173-africa-writes-2012.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Writes 2012 Date\/Time: Saturday 30 June &amp; Sunday 1 July 2012, 12-6PM Venue: Brunei Gallery Building (SOAS) &amp; Torrington Square The Royal African Society (RAS) is pleased to present Africa Writes &#8211; its inaugural annual literature and book festival celebrating contemporary African writing. Festival highlights include: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie&#8217;s lecture focusing on the legacy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":554,"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\/916"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scolma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}