This new issue contains the following articles: Articles African Cultural Studies: An Overview Handel Kashope Wright & Yao Xiao Pages: 1-31 | DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2020.1758738 Critiquing Print Media Transformation and Black Empowerment in South Africa: A Critical Race Theory Approach Prinola Govenden & Sarah Chiumbu Pages: 32-46 | DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2020.1722719 “There is no ‘us …
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Critical Arts, Volume 34, Issue 3, June 2020 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
Peter Abrahams This new issue contains the following articles: Articles Peter Abrahams 100: Milestones in Literature, Media and Political Commentary Hopeton S. Dunn & Rupert Lewis Pages: 1-8 | DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2020.1779767 Peter Abrahams of South Africa: Learning to Read (in) the Global 1930s Jason Frydman Pages: 9-22 | DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2020.1729217 Crossing Boundaries in Fact and …
CFP: African Journal of Rhetoric (AJR) Call for Papers: SPECIAL EDITION on the Black Panther Movie Africa, Afro-futurism and Wakanda Imaginings AJR Volume 16
The death of Chadwick Boseman evoked emotions across the global African community as evidenced on social media and new channels. Most Africans imagined him as T’Challa, an African royalty. T’Challa, a young man, succeeds his father, but must deal with his father’s mistake. T’Chaka’s spirit asserts: ‘That is the truth I chose to omit.’ But …
African Studies Association Women’s Caucus 2020 Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize Application For Creative Work
SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 15 The Aidoo-Snyder book prize is awarded by the Women’s Caucus of the African Studies Association for an outstanding book that prioritizes African women’s experiences. Named in honor of Ama Ata Aidoo, the celebrated Ghanaian novelist and short story writer, and Margaret Snyder the founding Director of UNIFEM, this …
Join the online Book Launch and discussion of Glenda Daniels’ new book
Power & Loss in South African Journalism: News in the age of social media Without a strong independent media and in-depth investigative journalism, South Africa’s democracy is in grave danger. The media’s long-held position as the fourth estate of political life is buffeted by market forces and contested by social media, while the digital networks …
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Extended: Indication of Interest Group Involvement in 2020
Dear SACOMM Community, As indicated in a previous email, our annual conference will not go ahead as planned this year, due to the COVID-19 virus and restrictions around it. We do want to make sure, however, that we stay connected within the greater SACOMM community, and especially in our smaller interest groups. Part of that …
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Call for ABSTRACTS
for 2021 AGENDA Journal – BEIJING + 25 Contributors are invited to submit manuscripts on the above topic from the point of view either of researchers or activists. Abstracts and contributions must be written in English and in a style accessible to a wide audience. Please submit abstracts to Lou Haysom : louhaysom@mweb.co.za or admin@agenda.org.za. GUEST EDITORS: Editors: …
Webinar: ‘Journalists, scientists, whistle-blowers, governments: who are the truth tellers?’
Highway Africa and The School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University invite you to attend a free webinar entitled ‘Journalists, scientists, whistle-blowers, governments: who are the truth tellers?’ which will take place on 5 August 2020, 12:00 – 13:30. The panelists are Telda Mawarire (Internews), Mia Malan (Bhekisisa), Laeed Zaghlami (Algiers University) and …
Seminar & Book Launch
University of Johannesburg School of Communication in collaboration with the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies (JIAS) DATE Friday, 17 July TIME 16:00 -18:00 VENUE Zoom / Virtual TITLE Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches (Oxford University Press, 2019) SPEAKERS: Sarah Chiumbu (University of Johannesburg) Mehita Iqani (University of the Witwatersrand) RESPONDENT: Tanja Bosch (University …
Call for Book Chapters
by Sara Hanaburgh The History of Sub-Saharan African Literatures on Film Cinematic adaptations of sub-Saharan African literatures draw from a wide range of genres from West African folktales to Zulu legends, from Hausa popular literature to graphic novels, war narratives or Afro Bubblegum art. Departing from the notion that, like literature and cinema, cinematic adaptations are …