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Writers and translators working across various Kenyan languages gathered to make this amazing anthology possible. Given our multilingualism, I look forward to how it redefines reading relative to the directional fluidity we employ in everyday use of language. More soon.

📽Cinema Africa will be back in December with BLACK TEA, a film by Abderrahmane Sissako. You can purchase the tickets on the CINEPLEX app/website or on-site at Cineplex Bayreuth. #CinemaAfrica #AfricaMultiple #AfricanStudies #Film #AfricanCinema #InterculturalFilm

Here is the UPDATED CfP for our conference on Imagining Urban Futures. We encourage PhD scholars and early career scholars to send their abstracts. And please share widely!

A new article by JM Kwanya offers a tantalizing reading of Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King, showing the ways in which a rewriting of history to centre women's experiences reveals previously obscured and elided histories.The paper is OPEN ACCESS, enjoy it! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Happy New Year 2025 from us at EALCS! As we wean ourselves of 2024 and settle into 2025, we have a paper on border crossings and migrant subjectivities by Emmanuel Ngwira -- for your start of the week and start of the year: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

A reminder to submit your abstract for the upcoming Mashariki EA Literary and Cultural Studies conference at University of Dar es Salaam this August :)

We have extended our deadline to February 28, 2025. If you have not written that abstract, please send it. We also invite book roundtables. If you want to convene one of these, drop that abstract drive.google.com/file/d/1Bs1heS… Godwin Siundu Jacky Kosgei 🏝 Dina Ligaga Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies

A weekend read for you, hot off the press: a new article by Samuel Kwesi Nkansah of University of Cape Coast (UCC) on Re-storying Nature: An Eco-critical Reading of Parkes’s Tail of the Blue Bird. Enjoy! tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies University of Cape Coast (UCC) Thank you for this article.

Here is my review of Ousmane Sembene's 'Oh My Country, My Beautiful People' in the Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies. Accessible here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Afro-Sino histories and encounters have shaped recent scholarship in literary, cultural, linguistic, economic, political, historical ++ studies. Read this article by Balew Demissie of Addis Ababa University on The Portrayal of China in Ethiopia’s Creative Works tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Enjoy this paper on alternative imaginings of Zimbabwe’s nationalist movement & liberation struggle thro' a critical assessments of two life writing texts: Tekere’s A Lifetime of Struggle & Msipa’s In Pursuit of Freedom &Justice. By Kudzai of Rhodes University tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Reading Gurnah's novels Paradise and Memory of Departure, Mohammad Ul Haq & Rasleena Thakur of Liberal and Creative Arts, Punjab, Indian, write about the intersection of masculinity & sodomy in Zanzibar as represented in the two novels tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Are you a published author or a renowned literary voice with a passion for African storytelling? 📚✨ Andishi Africa is looking for editors! We invite individuals aged 35 and above with a proven track record in writing, publishing, or contributing to the literary space to join

Posthumous publication - an article by Jairus Omuteche of Masinde Muliro Univ. who was a friend and colleague to many known to us has been published. Read "Nairobi’s Marginal Postcolonial Homes" based on your favourite novels by Meja Mwangi on the following link: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Literary Giant. There's only one person that has been bestowed this name in our literary history as we know it. Today we honour a life we've co-lived in books we've read and words we've shared, in stories we were told and in the stories we tell. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, go well.