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Living Sustainably Here: African Perspectives on the SDGs: A Review
Sep 2, 2026 · original
Introduction In an era where the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are often discussed through Western-centric lenses, Living Sustainably Here: African Perspectives on the SDGs, Volume 1 – Paths to Knowledge offers a vital, necessary corrective. This anthology, curated as the first volume of an ongoing project, serves as an intellectual and literary home for African voices, lived realities, and indigenous knowledge traditions. By centring the intersection of literature, education, and sustainable development, the book demands that we view the pursuit of sustainability not merely as a set of global policy targets, but as a deeply rooted, localised endeavour in knowledge production and dissemination. The anthology is thoughtfully built to guide the reader through the structural and systematic issues surrounding access to knowledge on the continent. It is organised into fi
Sarah Uheida Wins 2026 Ingrid Jonker Prize for Not This Tender
Aug 25, 2026 · original
Dryad Press is proud to announce that Sarah Uheida has won the 2026 Ingrid Jonker Prize for her debut poetry collection, Not This Tender . The award was announced by the Ingrid Jonker Prize Committee and will be presented at the Breytenbach Centre’s Tuin van Digters event in Wellington on 12 September 2026. Established in 1965 in memory of poet Ingrid Jonker, the Ingrid Jonker Prize is one of South Africa’s most respected literary awards, recognising the best debut collection of English or Afrikaans poetry. Founded by writer Jan Rabie with support from Jonker’s fellow writers, the prize alternates annually between the two languages, ensuring that emerging voices in both traditions are recognised. Winners are selected by a panel of critics; this year’s judges were Vangile Gantsho, Brian Walter and Simon van Schalkwyk. The prize now carries an award of R10,000 and a medal, and its winners’
Ugandan Newspapers Hold Political Leaders In Double-Binds
Aug 12, 2026 · original
In 2011, Rebecca Kadaga became the first female speaker of Uganda’s unicameral parliament, raising hopes for the position of women in Uganda. Five years later, in 2016, Winnie Kiiza was appointed by her political party, Forum for Democratic Change, as the leader of the opposition wing in parliament, positioning two women at the helm of leadership. From 2016-18, these women held unprecedented power over 300 members of parliament and ministers. In 2017, The New Vision reported that “Kadaga, who has had a relatively good relationship with the Opposition MPs and some were at the forefront of her campaign to retain Speakership following 2016 elections, suspended 25 MPs for misconduct” . This example fits well with Jamieson’s (1995) concept of double-binds, which hold women leaders to contradicting demands, metaphorically, “damned if they do, damned if they don’t” (Jamieson, 1995:p.4) . Unlike
Chenjerai Mabhiza
Aug 10, 2026 · original
AFRICAN STUDIES LIBRARIAN AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY Chenjerai Mabhiza is African Studies Librarian at Michigan State University (MSU), MI, USA. Prior to joining the MSU, Chenjerai worked as a librarian in different capacities for more than twenty-five (25 years) at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ), Namibian Agriculture and Water Information Center (Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry (MAWF), and the University of Namibia (UNAM), Africa, where he also served as research methodology part-time lecturer in business administration (Namibia Business School) and security and strategic studies (School of Military Science), before relocating to the United Sates. He is a member of the African Studies Association (ASA) and the Africana Librarians Council (ALC). Chenjerai is the current Chair of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL)’s African Studies Collections Committee (ASCC). He serv
EASTERN AFRICAN LITERARY AND PUBLISHING NETWORKS CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Jul 29, 2026 · original
Following a successful Call for Papers , the Eastern African Literary and Publishing Networks in the 1960s and 1970s conference, will be hosted at University of Nairobi between 10-11 August 2026. Please download the conference programme here and register for the conference here . We look forward to hosting you in Nairobi. After political independence, during the early decolonial period, a significant number of new literary and publishing initiatives were founded in Eastern Africa due to the ‘flourishing, vibrant intellectual culture of the 1960s and 1970s’ with all the ‘major writers’ except for Ngũgĩ publishing with ‘local presses’ (Simon Gikandi & Evan Mwangi, 2007, p. 151). These initiatives redefined an African literary canon, more expansively drawing in oral literatures, popular genres, and African languages, and accepting work that would not have been published elsewhere. The 1962
AJI 2027 Call for New Journals
Jul 24, 2026 · original
In 2025, Pluto Journals and African Books Collective (ABC) launched the African Journals Initiative working with a growing community of no-fee (‘diamond’) Open Access (OA) social science and humanities journals based in African universities, supported by ScienceOpen and JSTOR. We are looking to partner with more journals published from the African continent for 2027. Applications are open here . The deadline is 30 September 2026, although we welcome earlier applications and requests for informal discussions prior to making an application. This three year pilot project supports the publishing and distribution of a small number of African academic journals. It offers a range of services designed to enhance visibility and discoverability, including indexing, user-friendly submission systems, annual detailed impact reports, and much more. In its first year, the initiative onboarded the follo
Mandela Day & the New Botswana Notes and Records Issue
Jul 24, 2026 · original
In this newsletter, we would like to shed some light on Mandela Day , celebrated annually on 18 July, as an opportunity to reflect on the enduring legacy of Nelson Mandela. People are encouraged to each dedicate 67 minutes of service to others, symbolising the 67 years Mandela devoted to fighting for service and justice for humanity. On this day, the African Journals Initiative invites you to celebrate in a way that strengthens African knowledge and scholarship. We encourage you to spend 67 minutes reading, discussing, and promoting African scholarship. You help increase the visibility, reach, and impact of African voices and ideas. Furthermore, we are pleased to bring you three journal offerings journeying from Nigeria, Tanzania, to Botswana. They each offer a deeper insight into their countries’ current landscape, making for insightful and timely reads. Botswana Notes and Records , Vol
Exactitude as Feeling: On Deborah Seddon’s Magnitude
Jul 17, 2026 · original
Charged with intimacy yet articulated through an institutional and unforgiving language, Deborah Seddon’s Magnitude resists any impulse to elevate or soften the scene, remaining instead with the body as it is—vulnerable, specific, and irreducibly present. From its opening pages, the collection establishes a poetics of attention that is at once intimate and unsentimental, insisting that the smallest gestures—observed closely enough—can bear the full weight of human experience. Its central concerns—home, grief, movement, inheritance—are rendered with such disciplined precision that the vulnerability they expose never feels indulgent, but necessary. By its close, the reader is left in a kind of ringing silence, suspended between softness and unease. This is Seddon’s particular achievement: an exactitude that produces feeling. The collection opens with an epigraph from James Baldwin: home is
Histories and Legacies of Migrant Labour in Namibia and Switzerland: An Interview
Jul 1, 2026 · original
Niamh Christine O’Neill and Ndapewoshali Ndahafa Ilunga participated in a student exchange programme between the University of Basel and the University of Namibia. This became the basis of the edited volume Histories and Legacies of Migrant Labour in Namibia and Switzerland . After completing their Master’s Niamh has started a PhD at the University of Basel and Ndapewoshali started a Masters’ in Business Management, specialising in Strategic Project Management at the Management College of Southern Africa. The interview was done by the editors of the book: Luregn Lenggenhager , Giorgio Miescher , Saima Nakuti Ndahangwapo , Raffaele Perniola . You both participated in a student exchange project between the University of Namibia and the University of Basel. What was it like to work in an unfamiliar context, and how did this experience shape your collaboration and the ideas that eventually l
Publishing for a Nation: Sukai Mbye Bojang and Educational Services Enterprise in The Gambia
Jun 26, 2026 · original
The Gambia has a small but growing publishing ecosystem. Racheal Kizza interviewed Sukai Mbye Bojang , co-founder of Educational Services Enterprise , on the leaps the publisher has taken contributing to the steady growth of The Gambia’s ecosystem. Q: What motivated the founding of Educational Services Enterprise, and what gaps were you seeking to fill in the Gambian publishing landscape? A: When Sukai Mbye Bojang and Dembo Fanta Bojang produced their first textbooks for primary six pupils in 1986, there was no local publisher in The Gambia. The co-authors wrote and edited the manuscripts before sub-contracting the typesetting. We then took the typed manuscripts to a small printer for duplication, collating and binding into books. The book covers were very simple because we could not find someone to do some sketches. We realised that there were other people who needed book production. Th

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