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27. June 2025

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?”

23. June 2025

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".
16. May 2025

Risks of AI | Afrikanists Assemble | Episode 42

This month’s question is: “With artificial intelligence increasingly taking hold inside and outside academia, what present pitfalls or future risks do you see it posing for African languages and literatures?”

08. May 2025

RecAf Forum - Borrowed Words and Borrowed Time

In this session of the RecAf Forum on Language Work, Tessa Dowling, Senior Lecturer in the African Languages and Literatures Section at UCT, will present on "Borrowed words and borrowed time".
02. April 2025

RecAf Forum - The Work of Publishing Literature in Ghanaian Languages

In this session of the RecAf Forum on Language Work, Nikitta Dede Abena Adjirakor, a Ghanaian researcher, storyteller and educator, will present on "The Work of Publishing Literature in Ghanaian Languages".