News & Events

Join us on 24 November for an evening of poetry, performances and conversation, celebrating the work of Yonwaba Matshobotiyana, winner of the 2025 Africa Thesis Award! Yonwaba's thesis deals with the resurgence of Black women’s and Black queer women’s voices in South African poetry.

Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni will give the keynote lecture at the Stephen Ellis Debate on 10 December: 'Decolonisation as an Expression of African Agency: Reworlding the World in a Time of Global Turbulence'. On this occassion, the African Library has compiled a web dossier on the history, thought, and practice of decolonisation.

Congratulations to Annachiara Raia, who has been awarded a Vidi grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). With this grant, Raia will be able to develop a research project about narratives across distant-water islands. The project studies narrative migrations that cross borders and forge intertextual-and-religious relations among islanders of Indian Ocean islands Lamu, Madagascar, and Java.