Reminder: deadline to register for 2024 conference is April 15. After that time, anyone who has not registered will be removed from the program. Link below
conference.africanlit.org/registration-2…

Please join us for a live virtual lecture by Prof. Nduka Otiono, entitled 'Unbound Tongues: New Nigerian Poets, Politics, Disillusionment, and Hope in an Age of Japa.' Nduka Otiono #ALALectureSeries
More info here: africanlit.org/lecture-series…

This Saturday, January 27th at 11 am EST, Matthew Omelsky (Matthew Omelsky), author of “Fugitive Time,” will give an online lecture sponsored by the The African Literature Association. ow.ly/U1l850QsGk0

Join us, Saturday January 27, 2024 for a Live Virtual Lecture by Matthew Omelsky.
11:00 EST/ London 16:00/ Lagos 17:00/ Joburg 18:00PM/ Nairobi 19:00 youtube.com/c/AfricanLiter…
Authors Speak: Fugitive Time: Global Aesthetics and the Black Beyond
Introduced & moderated by Tsitsi Jaji

The deadline for submitting proposals for the 2024 conference has been extended to Sunday, December 31, 2023:

Filiations and Affiliations
Bonds, Entanglements, and Social Networks in African Literatures and Cultures
University of Louisville, KY, USA ⎻ May 23-25, 2024

Join us on Saturday, October 28, 2023, for a Live Virtual Lecture by Bernth Lindfors & Ernest Emenyonu on Controversy in the Early Years of the African Literature Association.

11am, EST/ London, 4pm/ Lagos, 4pm/ Johannesburg, 5pm/Nairobi, 6pm

VENUE: youtube.com/c/AfricanLiter…

Join us on Sept 23rd for a Live Virtual Lecture by Kanika Batra on Nourishing Resistance: Farms, Gardens, and Black Freedom Environments in the United States and South Africa, 1966-1976

TIME: 11:00 AM EST/ Lagos, 4:00 PM/ Joburg, 5:00 PM/ Nairobi, 6:00 PM
youtube.com/c/AfricanLiter…

In this sophisticated collective review of Professor Brown’s book, panelists discussed his innovative theories of liberalism to analyze the interplay of form, content, and reception of Nollywood media as contributing to the construction of subjectives.

Panelists at different stages of production and critical engagement organizing special issues for
JALA shared their experiences and advice for those who would like to make a compelling proposal for our journal. #ALA2023

The provisional theme and venue for the 2024 annual ALA conference was announced!

Venue: University of Louisville, Kentucky,
US

Theme: 'Filiations and affiliations”

T&F Africa The African Literature Association Janet Remmington JALA This conference is a huge success! Such a pleasure to have attended it in person

Conversations on the move, 2

The African Literature Association Knoxville 2023, viva!

Calling all Africa-based researchers attending the 2023 ALA Conference: register now with our STAR programme for a year's #freeaccess to Taylor & Francis Research Insights content, including the Journal of the African Literature Association: bddy.me/3N0712v JALA The African Literature Association

Conversations on the move — ⁦The African Literature Association⁩ #ALA2023 magic. En route to discuss ⁦⁦Kanika Batra⁩’s Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities (⁦Routledge Books⁩) with ⁦Bhakti Shringarpure⁩, ⁦JACS_Africa⁩, ⁦JALA⁩ et al 🔆

Twirling our way into The African Literature Association roundtable on Kanika Batra book “Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights” with JACS_Africa Janet Remmington and Apala Bhowmick (অপালা) reading for Wanjirū Doseline

A great honor to share my work with the The African Literature Association this week and to learn that my book “Burning at Europe’s Borders” was part of the influence behind this year’s conference theme on movement across time and space 🌍

It's the last day of The African Literature Association’s #ALA2023 and today Pauline Ada Uwakweh will be presenting her latest research. If you like her session, check out her book on women writers of the #diaspora and get a 20% discount using code EFL02:
rb.gy/lrce3 T&F Africa

Bhakti Shringarpure The African Literature Association JACS_Africa Africa Is a Country Meg Arenberg #freepalestine BRITTLE PAPER Ainehi Edoro-Glines, Phd Farah Bakaari Duncan McEachern Yoon & on Day 2 we left the conference room