Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies

An innovative international peer-reviewed journal exploring Eastern African literature, culture & the arts. From and about Africa 🌍

[Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies @EALCS_Journal]

You can now access the special issue on @AdhiamboKE's works. @GodwinSiundu has written a terrific introduction to this special issue with contributions on "Weight of Whispers" (2006), Dust (2014) and The Dragonfly Sea (2019)
https://t.co/Hq04WYApfM

[Akanji @Akanji834414209]

@EALCS_Journal That's an interesting crossover! Zilizopendwa's impact is profound, spanning decades and borders. Have you explored how it intersects with Kenyan music? It's fascinating how these songs can bridge cultures and generations!

[Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies @EALCS_Journal]

Vincent Ogoti gives us a poignantly beautiful piece on 'why photographers and curators aestheticize violence and how this shapes photography’s capacity to function as a medium of public memory and peace' via a reading of two Kenyan photo series
https://t.co/FMBDW3ZYZR
@Samdenno

[Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies @EALCS_Journal]

From 'once-loved' to 'golden oldies' - we cross over to Tanzania to continue the discussion on Zilizopendwa, with reflections on Zilizopendwa songs from two decades: the 1990s and 2010s. Another must read! By Justin Williams & Shani Mchepange
https://t.co/uMZ9MNIRCM

[Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies @EALCS_Journal]

A must read: How are some songs classified as 'once loved' and others not? How have performance practices evolved in the Kenya Music Festival scene? Thro' an appraisal of Zilizopendwa, Tabitha Osoro asks these questions and more.
https://t.co/2XEE3kKRqB

[Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies @EALCS_Journal]

Hot off the press: read Wafula Yenjela's article on precarious citizenship in Kenya via a critical appraisal of Yusuf Dawood's novel One Life Too Many https://t.co/JQk9yC2rby

[Macondo Literary Festival @MacondoLitFest]

1/2 Saturday was pure magic. ✨🎙️

Macondo citizens experienced Turkana through poetry at @chechebooks! A warm thank you to everyone who joined us. Stay tuned as we share more from the event in the coming days!

#MacondoNiNairobi #TurkanaNaturePoetryRetreat

[Makena Onjerika @Onjerika]

5 spots still left in my Character Interiority class. Happening this Saturday, online, from 5-7pm East African time. https://t.co/a1pUayU9Gi Only £25.

Come, let's deep dive into all the different ways you can write the interior of your character.

[Isaac Kiiza Tibasiima 🇺🇬 @ITibasiima]

While working toward my MA in Literature, I came across Peter Nazareth's "In a Brown Mantle", which was taught under Afro-Asian experiences, and the struggle for the establishment of the Afro-Asian identity in Ugandan political history.

Peter has transitioned.
Travel well!

[Jacky Kosgei 🏝 @ChilledAcademic]

Swahili Colloquium @unibt was the perfect place to launch my first monograph🥳❤️ & I'm thrilled because I had the privilege of doing it with Grace Musila 🙌
Many years of labour, but labour that I thoroughly enjoyed @GodwinSiundu @KWabende @Wasamba1 @umaruZW @jmkwanya @Samdenno

[Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies @EALCS_Journal]

9 days left to apply for this exciting writing workshop and mentoring programme. Dear ECRs, please apply and see you in Nairobi in August!
https://t.co/VfHIM75NeK

[Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies @EALCS_Journal]

"The paradisiacal images of the West in postcolonial African migration hatch from the postcolonial limitations that it imagines to respond to, but is refuted by intersectional postcolonial forces in the aspired ideal." Tantalizing, isn't it? Read more:
https://t.co/tn4QMZpEeS

[Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies @EALCS_Journal]

Postcolonial & decolonial scholarship has a huge repository on 'alternative' be it history, epistemology, methodology, etc. But is this category tenable? Thro' a reading of the SF sub-genre Alternate History, J Stier of @UPTuks delves into this question
https://t.co/AHS8nm2HpM

[Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies @EALCS_Journal]

Our editor Tina Steiner gave a keynote speech at last years Mashariki Conference @UdsmOfficial
We have now published it, and you can read it here:
https://t.co/SzYJ4rKG1K
@EALCS_Mashariki

[Mohamed Haji Ingiriis @M_H_Ingiriis]

On behalf of his family & friends, I am deeply saddened to announce the passing of Professor Ali Jimale Ahmed. His family was around him when he died in New York. He was the most revered of all Somali scholars. He will be sorely missed in Area Studies but also in Global Studies.

[JEAS @JEASjournal]

The first issue of JEAS volume 20 is now online!

https://t.co/GIQIYE8Yst

[Book Aid International @Book_Aid]

We work with partners to respond when books are lost to disaster.
We restocked school libraries following Cyclone Freddy in Malawi and provided books following hurricanes to Jamaica, Antiqua, Barbados and The British Virgin Islands.
Find out more ⤵️
https://t.co/WgOVndzUDD

[EALCS_Mashariki @EALCS_Mashariki]

At the Mashariki Literary and Cultural Studies Association, we believe in academic freedom. We stand with @SpireJim on this front we say

#HandsOffSpire
#IStandWithSpire

[Isaac Kiiza Tibasiima 🇺🇬 @ITibasiima]

Join Dr Kehinde from @AnchorUni and I in this discussion at @Makerere main hall on Friday at 2 pm. We look forward to seeing you there.

@SsaliSarah @MakerereIGDS @MakerereCHUSS

[Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies @EALCS_Journal]

We at EALCS_J and @EALCS_Mashariki wish you happy holidays, and we are leaving you with soothing and provocative words with which to enjoy the season. Listen to our editor Prof. Tina Steiner's conversation with Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah
https://t.co/4aQeiZvyZY
@STIAS_SA