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The annual African Literature Association (ALA) 2014 Conference is being held from Wednesday 9 April to Sunday 13 April at The Professional Development Hub at University of the Witwatersrand.
Professor Njabulo Ndebele is one of the confirmed keynote speakers, along with Simon Gikandi, who is Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University.
Caucus speakers include award-winning Mozambican author Mia Couto, Tanella Boni, writer and Professor of Philosophy at Houphouet-Boigny University in Abidjan, Liz Gunner, senior researcher at the Centre for Anthropological Research, University of Johannesburg, writer and activist Sindiwe Magona and Jared McDonald, post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Johannesburg.
The theme for this year’s conference is “Texts, Modes and Repertoires of Living In and Beyond the Shadows of Apartheid” and IT will include discussions, books launches, performances and film screenings. Read more about the event and have a look at the full programme:
April 2014 marks an auspicious moment in African history and experience: 20 years after the demise of official apartheid. Elsewhere, the seemingly intractable challenges of poverty, social inequality, discrimination and tyranny continue to bedevil the continent. The conference presents a fitting occasion to embark on the kinds of retrospection, introspection and predictions that look both at the past and the future in more fluid and dynamic ways – particularly in relation to the shadows and unfinished business of apartheid and the possibilities for imagining and creating a more just, egalitarian and humane world.
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- Rediscovery of the Ordinary: Essays on South African Literature and Culture by Njabulo Ndebele
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- The Tuner of Silences by Mia Couto
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- Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities edited by Dina Ligaga, Dumisani Moyo, Liz Gunner
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- From Robben Island to Bishopscourt: The Biography of Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane by Sindiwe Magona
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- Richard Rive: A Partial Biography by Shaun Viljoen
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- Reconsiderations: South African Indian Fiction and the Making of Race in Postcolonial Culture by Ronit Frenkel
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- The Wedding: A Novel by Imraan Coovadia
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- The Institute for Taxi Poetry by Imraan Coovadia
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- Double Negative by Ivan Vladislavic
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- No Time Like the Present by Nadine Gordimer
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- The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013 by Kofi Awoonor, edited by Kofi Anyidoho
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- Literary Landscapes: From Modernism to Postcolonialism by Harry Garuba, Ina Grabe, Merry M Pawlowski, Carrol Clarkson, Johan Geertsema
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- The Place We Call Home and Other Poems by Kofi Anyidoho
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- Unbowed: A Memoir by Wangari Maathai
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- Long Walk To Freedom: Commemorable edition by Nelson Mandela
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- African-language Literatures by Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi
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- Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus reader by Dennis Brutus, Aisha Karim, Lee Sustar
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- South Africa’s Suspended Revolution by Adam Habib
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- Rethinking Eastern African Literary and Intellectual Landscapes edited by James Ogude, Grace Musila, Dina Ligaga
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- Sister Outsiders: The Representation of Identity and Difference in Selected Writings by South African Indian Women by Devarakshanam Betty Govinden
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- Matigari by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
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- Exhibit A by Sarah Lotz
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- The Lazarus Effect by H J Golakai
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- What Hidden Lies by Michele Rowe
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- Just a Dead Man by Margaret von Klemperer
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- Accented Futures: Language activism and the ending of apartheid by Carli Coetzee
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- We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
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