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Literary Activism, Ecologies of Production and Networks of Practice in Contemporary Africa Webinar
Literary Activism, Ecologies of Production and Networks of Practice in Contemporary Africa Webinar

Digital Humanities and Archiving, Horn of Africa

Literary Activism, Ecologies of Production and Networks of Practice in Contemporary Africa Webinar

By admin_mulosige|2021-02-15T10:55:52+01:00February 15th, 2021|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Horn of Africa|Tags: MULOSIGE webinar|

Madhu Krishnan is Professor of African, World and Comparative Literatures at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Writing Spatiality in West Africa: Colonial Legacies in the Anglophone/Francophone Novel (2018), Contingent Canons: African Literature and the Politics of Location (2018), and Contemporary African Literature in English: Global Locations, Postcolonial Identifications (2014). She

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Congolese Literature as World, or rather Planetary, Literature?
Congolese Literature as World, or rather Planetary, Literature?

Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism

Congolese Literature as World, or rather Planetary, Literature?

By admin_mulosige|2020-07-01T11:06:15+01:00July 1st, 2020|Categories: Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism|Tags: Africa, canonicity, Congo, Disciplines, genres, literature, national identity, Planetary Literature, poetics, world literature|

Watch Silvia Riva (University of Milan) discuss Congolese Literature as World, or rather Planetary Literature.

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Mengistu Lemma: Amharic Playwright
Mengistu Lemma: Amharic Playwright

Horn of Africa

Mengistu Lemma: Amharic Playwright

By admin_mulosige|2020-05-11T13:01:59+01:00May 11th, 2020|Categories: Horn of Africa|

Learn about the Amharic-language playwright, Mengistu Lemma, from MULOSIGE Investigator Dr Sara Marzagora.

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Significant Geographies of African Literary Festivals – Talk
Significant Geographies of African Literary Festivals – Talk

Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism, Podcast

Significant Geographies of African Literary Festivals – Talk

By admin_mulosige|2021-02-26T11:16:22+01:00April 6th, 2020|Categories: Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism, Podcast|

Claire Ducournau is a tenured Associate Professor in Literature at Paul-Valéry – Montpellier 3 University, and a member of the RIRRA21 research center. Her work centers on francophone African writing, publishing and media. She is particularly interested in how sociological research methods and close textual analysis can be combined to explore African literature in

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Oral Traditions in World Literatur: Conference Abstracts
Oral Traditions in World Literatur: Conference Abstracts

Events, Horn of Africa

Oral Traditions in World Literatur: Conference Abstracts

By admin_mulosige|2019-12-14T13:57:22+01:00December 14th, 2019|Categories: Events, Horn of Africa|

MULOSIGE is organising the conference "Oral Traditions in World Literature" on the 17 - 18th December 2019. Read the conference abstracts below. Oral Traditions in World Literature Image used with permission from ethiopiareads.org In this conference, we argue that oral traditions are a vital component of world literature, and not

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Voices from Broken Places – Recording with Professor Assefa Dibaba
Voices from Broken Places – Recording with Professor Assefa Dibaba

Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms

Voices from Broken Places – Recording with Professor Assefa Dibaba

By admin_mulosige|2019-12-10T10:25:57+01:00December 4th, 2019|Categories: Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms|

Dr Assefa (aka Asafa) Tefera Dibaba is a poet, educator and researcher. He is the author of anthologies of poems in English and Oromo including: Anaany’aa (1998, 2006), Edas-Edanas (1997), Finfi (Ilyaada) (2014), Decorous Decorum (2006), and The Hug (2011), and has published works of prose including Danaa (2000), Eela (2009), Theorizing the Present

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Contemporary African Oral Traditions – Roundtable Recording
Contemporary African Oral Traditions – Roundtable Recording

Digital Humanities and Archiving, Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms, Past events, Podcast

Contemporary African Oral Traditions – Roundtable Recording

By admin_mulosige|2019-11-26T10:39:22+01:00November 25th, 2019|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms, Past events, Podcast|

Orature plays a determinant role in literary expression around the world, but unwritten verbal arts have been explicitly excluded from definitions of world literature. Watch the recording from the roundtable on Contemporary Oral African Traditions to learn more about orature's place in world literature.

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Oral Traditions in World Literature – Conference Programme
Oral Traditions in World Literature – Conference Programme

Events, Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms

Oral Traditions in World Literature – Conference Programme

By admin_mulosige|2019-12-14T14:04:52+01:00October 31st, 2019|Categories: Events, Horn of Africa, Orality and Oral Forms|

The MULOSIGE project (Multilingual Locals, Significant Geographies: SOAS University of London) is organising the conference Oral Traditions in World Literature on the 17-18 December 2019. This conference will take place at the Addis Regency Hotel, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). You can read the conference abstracts here or explore the conference programme. Oral Traditions

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MULOSIGE Reading List: The Significant Literary Geographies of African Festivals
MULOSIGE Reading List: The Significant Literary Geographies of African Festivals

Digital Humanities and Archiving, Education and Taste, Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism, Members, MULOSIGE Syllabi, Reading

MULOSIGE Reading List: The Significant Literary Geographies of African Festivals

By admin_mulosige|2019-07-31T09:39:48+01:00July 31st, 2019|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Education and Taste, Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism, Members, MULOSIGE Syllabi, Reading|Tags: Africa, ethnography, festivals, Francophone, geography, literary, world literature|

In an era where cultural festivals multiply, so-called African festivals have spread in Africa, but also outside of Africa, in major cities as well as in little-known villages, for example in provincial France. What are some of their implications and effects in the case of francophone African literature?

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Poétiques et politiques de l’activisme des écrivains dans les Pays du Sud
Poétiques et politiques de l’activisme des écrivains dans les Pays du Sud

Digital Humanities and Archiving, Events, Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism, Maghreb, North India

Poétiques et politiques de l’activisme des écrivains dans les Pays du Sud

By admin_mulosige|2019-07-03T09:43:26+01:00July 3rd, 2019|Categories: Digital Humanities and Archiving, Events, Horn of Africa, Literary Criticism, Maghreb, North India|

Cette conférence s’assigne comme but d’explorer selon une perspective comparée la manière dont l’activisme des écrivains négocie la poétique et la politique dans trois régions des Pays du Sud: le Maghreb, la Corne de l’Afrique et le nord de l’Inde.

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