Feel Good Do Good Show (8pm - 11pm) will feature Mariegold Adams and Dj Trezh aka Ruth Marimo for a live discussion on Zimbabwean Writers and Zimbabwean Literature Today.
Live in the studio will be:
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma an award-winning short fiction writer from Zimbabwe. She was the winner of the Intwasa Short Story Competition 2009.
Ivor Hartmann a Zimbabwean writer living between Harare and Johannesburg. He publishes, StoryTime, an African fiction ezine, and his fiction and non-fiction pieces have been published in various magazines and
Emmanuel Sigauke is a Zimbabwean writer based in Sacramento, California USA. He helped found the Zimbabwe Budding Writers Association
Topics will include Zimbabwean writers and the books they read & how the books have influenced their writing. Zimbabwe literature today, New African short story anthologies and new genres in African writing.
(Note: Aside from academic papers, the organizers are seeking proposals from artists and theatre poets who would like to participate/ present in the conference.)
Call for papers and proposals: ‘Disability’ and Citizenship - ‘From visions to action’
Conference Date: 9- 11 October 2012
Venue: University of Zimbabwe
University of Zimbabwe and its partners invites academics, students, researchers, professionals, artists, civil society and policy makers to present academic and/or policy related papers, posters, workshops and performances on disability and citizenship. In recognition of the fact that contemporary conceptions of citizenship centre around notions of human rights, responsibilities and ‘active’ participation in all spheres of human endeavours, this special conference is called to conceptualise/theorise, contextualise and proffer practical suggestions on negotiating ‘disability’ related challenges.
Cognisant of the fact that people with ‘disabilities’ have generally been perceived as marginalised and excluded from major social, political, economic and cultural practices, the conference seeks to further interrogate major barriers to the full participation of people with disabilities as citizens and to explore practical strategies of addressing identified issues and problems. We therefore encourage innovative insights and practices in the following conference thematic areas.
1. Disability, political participation and citizenship 2. Disability, law and citizenship 3. Media, disability and citizenship 4. Disability and student activism 5. Performance and Disability 6. Literature: metaphors and symbols of Disability 7. Sport, recreation and Disability: politics of participation 8. Visual Arts, disability and citizenship 9. Religion/spirituality and citizenship: past, present and future. 10. Disability, discourse/rhetoric and the politics of language 11. Education/critical pedagogy and disability 12. Historical/cultural narratives of disability: implications on citizenship 13. Disability research: politics of inclusion and exclusion 14. Medical science, disability and citizenship 15. The politics of the body and disability activism 16. Space and Environment: barriers and possibilities to participation 17. Disability, employment and the politics of empowerment 18. Gender, disability and politics of participation
Important information
Presentations at the conference are encouraged and welcome in the following formats: academic/policy papers, posters, performances/workshops and visual exhibitions/displays. University and college students will have a special forum in which they will present
All Proposals and Abstracts should be sent to nmuwonwa@gmail.com
Abstracts should not exceed 300 words
Visual displays (e.g. posters, short films, sculpture, electronic images)
Workshops/ Performances - (e .g, dance, music, theatre poetry)
Conference Products
1) Reviewed papers will be published in a journal. 2) Policy Proposals will be presented to relevant organisations
The shortlist for the 2011 Caine Prize for African Writing has been announced today (Monday 9 May). The Caine Prize, widely known as the ‘African Booker’ and regarded as Africa’s leading literary award, is now in its twelfth year. The chair of judges, the award-winning Libyan novelist Hisham Matar, said "choosing a shortlist out of nearly 130 entries was not an easy task – one made more difficult and yet more enjoyable by the varied tastes of the judges – but we have arrived at a list of five stories that excel in quality and ambition. Together they represent a portrait of today’s African short story: its wit and intelligence, its concerns and preoccupations.”
Selected from 126 entries from 17 African countries, the shortlist is once again a reflection of the Caine Prize’s pan-African reach. The winner of the £10,000 prize is to be announced at a celebratory dinner at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, on Monday 11 July.
The 2011 shortlist comprises:
· NoViolet Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) ‘Hitting Budapest’ from ‘The Boston Review’ Vol 35, no. 6 - Nov/Dec 2010
· Beatrice Lamwaka (Uganda) ‘Butterfly dreams’ from ‘Butterfly Dreams and Other New Short Stories from Uganda’ published by Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, Nottingham, 2010
· Tim Keegan (South Africa) ‘What Molly Knew’ from ‘Bad Company’ published by Pan Macmillan SA, 2008
· Lauri Kubuitsile (Botswana) ‘In the spirit of McPhineas Lata’ from ‘The Bed Book of Short Stories’ published by Modjaji Books, SA, 2010
· David Medalie (South Africa) ‘The Mistress’s Dog’ from ‘The Mistress’s Dog: Short stories 1996- 2010’ published by Picador Africa, 2010
As always the stories are available to read online on our website.
Joining Hisham on the judging panel this year are Granta deputy editor Ellah Allfrey, publisher, film and travel writer Vicky Unwin, Georgetown University Professor and poet David Gewanter and the award-winning author Aminatta Forna. Once again the winner of the £10,000 Caine Prize will be given the opportunity of taking up a month’s residence at Georgetown University, Washington DC, as a ‘Caine Prize/Georgetown University Writer-in-Residence.’ The award will cover all travel and living expenses.
Last year the Caine Prize was won by Sierra Leonean writer Olufemi Terry. As the then Chair of judges, Fiammetta Rocco, said at the time, the story was “ambitious, brave and hugely imaginative. Olufemi Terry’s ‘Stickfighting Days’ presents a heroic culture that is Homeric in its scale and conception. The execution of this story is so tight and the presentation so cinematic, it confirms Olufemi Terry as a talent with an enormous future.”
Previous winners include Uganda’s Monica Arac de Nyeko, for ‘Jambula Tree’ from ‘African Love Stories’, Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2006, and Binyavanga Wainaina, from Kenya, who founded the well-known literary magazine, Kwani?, to publish work by new Kenyan writers.
This year the shortlisted writers will be reading from their work at the Royal Over-Seas League on Friday, 8 July at 7pm and at the London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre, on Sunday, 10 July at 7pm.