There are several exciting calls for proposals/applications/nominations with upcoming deadlines that we’d like to bring to your attention. For more details and the full listing of many more interesting opportunities, please check out the Opportunities section here. If you have a relevant opportunity that you would like added, please email us at cihablog[at]gmail[dot]com.
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Call for Publications on “Women Rewriting History: Critical Resistance through Literature, Film, and Art.” Rewriting historical and canonical texts has been a continuing tradition in literature but takes on particular significance in women’s revisions of literature, legends, and myths created by men. This edited collection will bring together essays from a wide range of disciplines and cultural perspectives to explore the phenomena and archetypes of womanhood through re-writings of canonical texts, myths, and stories in films, novels, poems, plays, short stories, and art while taking a comparative approach to women’s literature and rewriting across national and cultural boundaries. The deadline for abstracts is April 1, 2018. Find full details here.
Peace, Security and Development Fellowship for African Scholars
The African Leadership Centre (ALC) is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Peace, Security and Development Fellowships for African Scholars starting in September 2018. This Fellowship covers an 18-month period and is designed to expose young rising African scholars to the complexities of security and development issues facing the African continent. The deadline for applications is April 8th, 2018. Find the full details here.
African Books Collective (ABC) is a non-profit Oxford-based, worldwide marketing and distribution outlet for 2,500 print titles from Africa, of which 800 are also ebooks – scholarly, literature and children’s books. Founded, owned and governed by a group of African publishers, its participants are 154 independent and autonomous African publishers from 24 countries. ABC seeks to be the primary distribution choice for independent African publishers; to provide the most comprehensive selection of relevant material to customers worldwide in the form they require; to achieve ABC’s cultural aims whilst operating in a wholly commercial space; and to grow the market for African books worldwide. The African Books Collective (ABC)’s latest catalogue for order is now available. Ordering information and titles are available here.