James Currey and Women’s History Month
March 19, 2019
Through academic research, women in Africa have been shown to be essential to the economic and social factors in nearly every African region. What was the history of women in… READ MORE
March 19, 2019
Through academic research, women in Africa have been shown to be essential to the economic and social factors in nearly every African region. What was the history of women in… READ MORE
March 12, 2019
On Saturday 2 March the James Currey team – made up of James Currey ‘the man’ as well as James Currey the ‘concept’ (a leading publisher of academic books on… READ MORE
February 22, 2019
At Boydell and Brewer we are passionate about our African Studies lists. Therefore, our titles fall under different series, all which are unique and celebrate the different types of work… READ MORE
February 7, 2019
Environmental Transformation in Literature and Criticism Papers are invited on the ways in which African environmental(ist) writing engages with major shifts in twenty-first-century thinking such as the announcement of the… READ MORE
December 17, 2018
“Imaginative writer, educator of decolonization, fearless activist”, Ndirangu Wachanga, Ngugi’s authorized documentary biographer, offers personal anecdotes and insights into the power of the Kenyan writer’s work. I met Ngugi wa… READ MORE
September 30, 2018
The 30th of September marks the internationally celebrated, Translation Day, aptly settled on the Feast of St Jerome – the patron saint of translators. This annual tribute is paid to… READ MORE
September 19, 2018
On the eve of Ghana’s independence from British rule, the country’s first radio programme dedicated to the broadcast of original literature aired from Accra, the capital of Ghana (then the… READ MORE
August 21, 2018
Dr Kate Philip is a Senior Economic Development Advisor in the Government Technical Advisory Centre (GTAC), an agency of South Africa’s National Treasury, and, through the International Labour Organisation, she… READ MORE
July 26, 2018
African Literature Today, much like modern African Literature and its criticism as a formal intellectual discipline, has been in the Academy for half a century. Chinua Achebe published his first… READ MORE
June 17, 2018
On 17 June, 1958, the hardback edition of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart was published by the London-based publishing house William Heinemann. The landmark novel, which follows the life of a fictional… READ MORE