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Writing South Africa Now is a collective of research students and scholars dedicated to celebrating the South African literary landscape.

 University of Cambridge
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Joined November 2012
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Statement from University of Cambridge in support of Lola Olufemi @CUSUWO in reaction to today's media coverage.
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Shelley Cobb@bellecobb25 Oct 2017
Don't take the Telegraph story on Cambridge at face value - check out @PriyamvadaGopal twitter feed and thread below. The knee-jerk racism and fabricated outrage/drama in the Telegraph and Daily Mail today are outrageous and on par for them nitter.gq/PriyamvadaGopal/status…
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Thread. I hadn't seen the Telegraph cover, hrrifically racist and false. Let me now release some snippetes from my convo with the journalist. Thank god for my rule that all interviews must be written.
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Alice Kelly@DrAliceKelly18 Oct 2017
Please RT: Registration now open for our first @cultcommwar workshop @RAIOxford on 10 Nov. Free & open to all! bit.ly/2ihZd02
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The JRB@JoburgReview17 Oct 2017
The shortlists for the 2017 South African Literary Awards have been announced! johannesburgreviewofbooks.co… – at Johannesburg, South Africa
[The JRB Daily] South African Literary Awards shortlists announced

[The JRB Daily] South African Literary Awards shortlists announced

The 2017 South African Literary Awards shortlists have been announced, with nominees including Mohale Mashigo, Kopano Matlwa, Nthikeng Mohlele, Etienne van Heerden and Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa. The...

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Really excited to say that our website, full of resources on reading Black & Asian British writing, is now live! writersmakeworlds.com/
Writers Make Worlds – Contemporary British writing – writers make worlds

Writers Make Worlds – Contemporary British writing – writers make worlds

This website is a hub of multimedia resources on reading contemporary Black and Asian British literature, created at the University of Oxford.

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Trophy city 2.0: can the Stans kick dictator chic? - the guardian apple.news/AlRLjLo2tOPWFY-YF…
Pls RT Job Opportunity: Research Associate @kclgeography -Disconnected Infrastructures & Violence Against Women #VAW hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061247/MS…
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Smuts Memorial Lecture @CRASSHlive AbdoulMaliq Simone! 7/11/17 crassh.cam.ac.uk/events
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Thread. Actual Classics of International Struggle/Anti-Colonialism to make up for misleading &selective ones Please contribute. 1. Frantz Fanon The Wretched of the Earth 2. Aimé Cesaire Discourse on Colonialism 3. CLR James The Black Jacobins
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African Studies@CASCambridge9 Oct 2017
Make sure to check this out, from 16/10 @ St John's Chapel THE BLACK CANTABS PROJECT EXHIBITION shar.es/1VSqsx
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The @MakingBritain #IndiaInBritain exhibition has just gone up at London Bridge Pier come and find us there over the next week.
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CMLC@CMLC_KCL3 Oct 2017
Co-curated by CMLC director @LaraFeigel, Melancholia now @ KCL's Inigo Rooms. Free, every day except Mondays til 10th Dec.
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Urban Studies @ UofT@USPUofT2 Oct 2017
Do you have a PhD in Urban Studies or a related field? The last day to apply for @USPUofT's 2 year CLTA is Nov. 1: bit.ly/2yiTnSV
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CAFF@africambridge2 Oct 2017
CAFF is delighted to be sharing with you this year's programme! 16 years screening African films for Cambridge... fb.me/60aFIMyWs
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Delighted to announce Dr @GrahamRiach has won the 2016 Ranger Prize - read his article here pllqt.it/7L7bRd
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The JRB@JoburgReview25 Sep 2017
JM Coetzee reads a new story, ‘The Glass Abattoir’, and announces a new book to feature Elizabeth Costello johannesburgreviewofbooks.co… – at Johannesburg, South Africa
[The JRB Daily] JM Coetzee reads a new story, 'The Glass Abattoir', and announces a new book to...

[The JRB Daily] JM Coetzee reads a new story, 'The Glass Abattoir', and announces a new book to...

As part of the programme for an international congress on 'The work of John Maxwell Coetzee in Latin America', JM Coetzee read a new story called 'The Glass Abattoir' from a forthcoming book that...

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African Studies@CASCambridge21 Sep 2017
Recent Postdoc? We're recruiting now for the Smuts Research Fellowship in African Studies! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/15041/
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The Portico Library@ThePortico14 Sep 2017
Tonight at 6pm - 'Bittersweet: Legacies of Slavery & Abolition in Manchester'. facebook.com/events/10207518… @MAGlearning @UoMNews @Tiwaniart
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The global concerns of southern African photography africainwords.com/2017/09/14… via @africainwords
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