AfLit Grad Caucus

Official Twitter account of the Graduate Student Caucus of the @AfricanLitAssoc. //Managed by GSCALA Media Officer: @KufreUsanga

[AfLit Grad Caucus @GSCALA_]

If you want to stay up to date with the GSCALA, follow us on Twitter or join our Facebook group https://t.co/JNdrGuxSl9 !!

[The African Literature Association @AfricanLitAssoc]

ALA members: The 2021 ALA conference (May 26-29) will feature panels from last summer's cancelled conference. But a few additional slots remain available. Submit proposals by January 31. See ALA website for details.

[The Africanist - Podcast @TheAfricanistP1]

All grad students should listen to this episode @GSCALA_ @OUGradSenate @cogsmsu @GradSkoolStrugs @PGSAUofL @DocwritingSIG @DECRarthistory https://t.co/zBgTzWT7Ko

[The African Literature Association @AfricanLitAssoc]

With a heavy heart, the ALA announces the passing of South African scholar Ntongela Masilela, Professor Emeritus at Pitzer College. A towering scholar of African/diasporic literary & intellectual history, he will be missed by many. ALA extends condolences to family & friends.

[AfLit Grad Caucus @GSCALA_]

And Member-at-large.

If you're interested in running for any of the positions and would like to know what they entail, please contact the current occupier of the position or the president.

More details on the facebook page. Thank you.

[AfLit Grad Caucus @GSCALA_]

Its that time of the year again.

GSCALA is recruiting for positions on the GSCALA 2020-2021 committee. All roles are open this year, and we need dedicated members to step in and undertake these roles.

Open positions are:
Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, Media Officer...

[Ambreena Manji @AmbreenaManji]

A great talk in store for those able to hear Carli Coetzee speak at @AfricanLitAssoc - I read her lecture in draft last week and it is nothing short of a manifesto for the work we must do. https://t.co/5bJRfUxfui

[Janet Remmington @VariousHats]

African Literary History: From Achebe to Adichie and Beyond - Ato Quayson delivering @AfricanLitAssoc’s #ALA2018 keynote with flair, reflecting on geographies, spatialities, fluidities to think about literary-historical questions

[Arao Ameny ✍🏾📖 @africanwriter]

Day # 2 of @AfricanLitAssoc 2018 Conference. Finally met Nigerian writer @helonhabila in person (yay!) + he signed my copy of The Chibok Girls, Oil on Water (my favourite of all three) & Measuring Time. #ALA2018

[Dr Rebecca Macklin @RebeccaMacklin_]

‘Who is invested in knowledge & in whom do we invest?’ Carli Coetzee’s keynote shines a light on power dynamics in academic publishing, the invisibility of ECR labour & questions the terms of knowledge production #ALA2018

[AfLit Grad Caucus @GSCALA_]

The 44th annual @AfricanLitAssoc conference is underway!
If you are a #GSCALA member, send us a tweet! We want to showcase your scholarship on the feed this week :)

#ALA2018

[Janet Remmington @VariousHats]

Commemorating Flora Nwapa and Tana Press in #ALA2018 panel on African Women Publishers. Her books and spirit live on and keep innovating thru family initiative: https://t.co/NoDncvgBgu

[Janet Remmington @VariousHats]

Through our references, we show who our intellectual ancestors are. Many African Studies article/book reference lists are incomplete, without drawing on African scholars and works; we stay in the 'air-conditioned room' -- Carli Coetzee #ALA2018

[Janet Remmington @VariousHats]

How do we become interstitial scholars? How do we hold the door open? Not just remain in our comfort, cool 'air-conditioned' zones? -- C Coetzee @AfricanLitAssoc #ALA2018 keynote

[Janet Remmington @VariousHats]

African Women Publishers and the Book Industry. Such an important panel at @AfricanLitAssoc’s #ALA2018 presenting on the past, present, future of presses and their pioneers

[Amanda RW Lagji @AmandaLagji]

Really loving the roundtable discussion on approaches to teaching the environments of African lit at #ala2018 / @AfricanLitAssoc-- hoping we can expand # of panels at future conferences that discuss pedagogy, syllabus design, and classroom environment more explicitly.

[Janet Remmington @VariousHats]

Dr Carli Coetzee, (activist) editor of Journal of African Cultural Studies and profound scholar, delivering @AfricanLitAssoc’s #ALA2018 keynote: ‘Unsettling the Air-Conditioned Room’ on recognising invisible work of editors/reviewers and challenging research/publishing cliques

[Janet Remmington @VariousHats]

So @helonhabila has us all enraptured in his #ALA2018 keynote on the stretching topic of the future of African literature, weaving in his growing consciousness of environmental issues, the insistence of material contexts, the oil on water

[AfLit Grad Caucus @GSCALA_]

The 44th annual @AfricanLitAssoc conference is underway!
If you are a #GSCALA member, send us a tweet! We want to showcase your scholarship on the feed this week :)

#ALA2018