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Eastern African Literary & Cultural Studies

@EALCS_Journal

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

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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) tandfonline.com/toc/real20/8/1…


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Truly honoured to be part of this family that thinks with the heart and feels with the mind. It was an absolute honour to be part of the Nobel in Africa Symposium, the first ever Nobel Symposium outside of Scandinavia. History is made!!!

And, of course, #Mashariki played with dynamite, too! @EALCS_Mashariki here are your folks shining at the Nobel in Africa Symposium held at @STIAS_SA, sponsored by the Nobel Foundation. @AdhiamboKE we're enchanted by your writing! @GodwinSiundu @ChilledAcademic @asante_lucy

EALCS_Journal's tweet image. And, of course, #Mashariki played with dynamite, too! @EALCS_Mashariki here are your folks shining at the Nobel in Africa Symposium held at @STIAS_SA, sponsored by the Nobel Foundation. @AdhiamboKE we're enchanted by your writing! @GodwinSiundu @ChilledAcademic @asante_lucy


And, of course, #Mashariki played with dynamite, too! @EALCS_Mashariki here are your folks shining at the Nobel in Africa Symposium held at @STIAS_SA, sponsored by the Nobel Foundation. @AdhiamboKE we're enchanted by your writing! @GodwinSiundu @ChilledAcademic @asante_lucy

EALCS_Journal's tweet image. And, of course, #Mashariki played with dynamite, too! @EALCS_Mashariki here are your folks shining at the Nobel in Africa Symposium held at @STIAS_SA, sponsored by the Nobel Foundation. @AdhiamboKE we're enchanted by your writing! @GodwinSiundu @ChilledAcademic @asante_lucy

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It was truly a historic gathering with exciting discussions. Many thanks to Tina, Maria Olaussen, Louise Green, and Abdulrazak Gurnah for the meticulous planning and all, and thanks too to Jackie Kosgei for archiving this event.


In a rare ocassion, Africa's best writers & Africa's best scholars converged @STIAS_SA in Stellenbosch for the Nobel in Africa Symposium, headlined by Nobel Laureates Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021) & J.M. Coetzee (2003), who gave the @StellenboschUni Chancellor's Public Lecture

EALCS_Journal's tweet image. In a rare ocassion, Africa's best writers & Africa's best scholars converged @STIAS_SA in Stellenbosch for the Nobel in Africa Symposium, headlined by Nobel Laureates Abdulrazak Gurnah (2021) & J.M. Coetzee (2003), who gave the @StellenboschUni Chancellor's Public Lecture

When they write the history of African literature, there will be a chapter on 3-7 Nov. 2025. This week, 50 writers & critics gathered for the #NobelinAfrica2025 @STIAS_SA. This was the first time that the Nobel Symposium is held outside of Scandinavia. stias.ac.za/events/nobel-s…

EALCS_Journal's tweet image. When they write the history of African literature, there will be a chapter on 3-7 Nov. 2025.  This week, 50 writers & critics gathered for the #NobelinAfrica2025 @STIAS_SA. This was the first time that the Nobel Symposium is held outside of Scandinavia.
  stias.ac.za/events/nobel-s…

Our editor Tina Steiner was co-convener of the #NobelinAfrica2025, alongside Louise Green, Maria Olaussen & Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah. We were happy to also have our editors @GodwinSiundu & Lynda Spencer in attendance. EALCS is witness to this historical moment! @STIAS_SA

EALCS_Journal's tweet image. Our editor Tina Steiner was co-convener of the #NobelinAfrica2025, alongside Louise Green, Maria Olaussen & Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah. We were happy to also have our
editors @GodwinSiundu & Lynda Spencer in attendance. EALCS is witness to this historical moment! @STIAS_SA

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Nobel in Africa Symposium ‘25 has parallels with Paris ‘56 and Makerere ‘62. Last evening, among other invite-only guests, I listened to two of the finest African writers, JM Coetzee and Abdulrazak Gurnah, moderated by Prof Stefan Helgesson. #NobelinAfrica2025

GodwinSiundu's tweet image. Nobel in Africa Symposium ‘25 has parallels with Paris ‘56 and Makerere ‘62. Last evening, among other invite-only guests, I listened to two of the finest African writers, JM Coetzee and Abdulrazak Gurnah, moderated by Prof Stefan Helgesson.  #NobelinAfrica2025

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Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah in conversation with editor of @EALCS_Journal on the last day of the Nobel in Africa Symposium, Stellenbosch Institute dor Advanced Studies… #NobelinAfrica2025

GodwinSiundu's tweet image. Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah in conversation with editor of @EALCS_Journal on the last day of the Nobel in Africa Symposium, Stellenbosch Institute dor Advanced Studies… #NobelinAfrica2025

Keeping to politics of the body, we also have this new article by D. Anselmo & N. Tembo which reads T. Abraham’s novel Black Sunday for choiceless choice and how this reveals images of the fragmented female child’s body and identity. Read it here: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…


We have published a new article by Maryline Kirui of @MoiUniversity_ 🥳 Kirui reads Ebrahim Hussein’s play Kinjeketile (1969) for portrayals of violence, with a focus on forms of violence meted on the body as acts of marginalisation. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…


Read this review of Ousmane Sembene's Oh My Country, My Beautiful People! by Adventino Banjwa of MISR @Makerere and find this newly translated novel, now available to Anglophone readers. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…


Our new Issue is not complete without Ngugi, and here we have a comparative reading of his novel Weep Not, Child, and his childhood memoir Dreams in a Time of War, by Auson Wincheslaus of Mkwawa University College of Education, Iringa. Read it here: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…


And here comes an article on the complex interplay of identity, race, and privilege based on a reading of Igoni Barrett’s novel Blackass, by Hasamulddin Azeez. Enjoy it! tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…


We are happy to share Jacinta Matheka's paper that we have just published on our new Issue, on reading The Last Gift by Gurnah for the intersection of migrants’ trauma, memory and identity. Read it here: tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…


Looking back to August, which is always our season of harvest, and reflecting on a productive and exciting #Mashariki conference that we had at @UdsmOfficial. The next harvest is bigger because it will be a Homecoming Edition. Stay tuned for the 8th Mashariki Conference @uonbi


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