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A draft programme for the ASAUK conference is now available. The conference will  run from 13.30pm on Thursday Sept 6th to 3.30pm on Saturday 8th September 2012 and is held in conjunction with Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) at Leeds University.There are numerous registration options the details of which are given on the … Read more

            The Caine Prize was won by Rotimi Babatunde for Bombay’s Republic – http://bit.ly/MpYqTO  He will be at African Writers’ Evening Wednesday 4th July   http://bit.ly/KWPh49 Read the story here http://www.caineprize.com/pdf/2012_Babatunde.pdf The shortlisted writers were at a Caine Prize bookclub event on Saturday – part of “Africa Writes” festival  –  … Read more

Africa Writes 2012 Date/Time: Saturday 30 June & Sunday 1 July 2012, 12-6PM Venue: Brunei Gallery Building (SOAS) & Torrington Square The Royal African Society (RAS) is pleased to present Africa Writes – its inaugural annual literature and book festival celebrating contemporary African writing. Festival highlights include: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s lecture focusing on the legacy … Read more

The Britain Zimbabwe Society’s annual research day will be held on the 16th June at St. Antony’s College, Oxford This year participants will explore the historical and contemporary connections between Zimbabwe and her neighbours. We are pleased to announce our keynote speakers this year will be Professor Jack Spence, OBE (King’s College London) and Professor … Read more

  Bulawayo Public Library (Zimbabwe) is currently in dire financial straits. For more info on the situation and the Library’s appeal for help, see http://www.zddt.org/appeal-for-bulawayo-library-0306.html.

  The situation in Mali,  is increasingly volatile. The conflict has spread to Timbuktu, home of thousands of manuscripts documenting the rich heritage of West Africa through the ages. The scholarly community is concerned for the safety of this cultural and intellectual heritage housed in the many libraries and private collections in Timbuktu. Its loss … Read more

The Library of the African Studies Centre Leiden has compiled a new web dossier on Water in Africa to coincide with the international conference, organized by the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC) in collaboration with the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Port Louis,Mauritius, 29-31 March 2012.  Water and sanitation is … Read more