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In a globalized world, language regiments the flow of knowledge. Against the background of its "difficult heritage", Afrikanistik as the study of African languages, literatures and texts is in a privileged position to mediate heterotopic and heterogeneous knowledge practices. We invite young scholars to recalibrate Afrikanistik with their innovative ideas in dialogue with African Studies.

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Oral Literature as High Art | Afrikanists Assemble | Episode 43

This month’s question is: “Let’s pretend that oral genres of literature, worldwide and throughout history, were considered to be a higher form of literary art than written ones. How might the world look different?”

RecAf Forum - Unbooking waterscape epistemologies: Unbooking as decolonial praxis in language scholarship

In this session of the RecAf Forum on Language Work, Sinfree Makoni, Liberal Arts Professor of African Studies and Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University, will present on "Unbooking waterscape epistemologies: Unbooking as decolonial praxis in language scholarship".

Forum on (African) Language Work

Every first Tuesday of the Month, RecAf hosts the Forum on (African) Language Work highlighting diverse perspectives of and engagements with Language Workers.

Where are we heading?

  1. goal-1

    A critical debate about the history and objects of our discipline

  2. Languages, literatures and texts as situated knowledge practices

  3. Joint knowledge production with young scholars and six partner universities