JANUARY
21 Jan - 5 Feb
Cairo International Book Fair
Cairo, Egypt
More information: www.cibf.org or email: ssarhan@idesc.gov.eg

29 January, 15:00 - 17:00
Seminar: Prospects and challenges of peace in Sudan by Mohamed A. Salih
Venue: Africa Studies Centre, University of Leiden, Pieter de la Court building, Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden, Netherlands
More information: asc.leidenuniv.nl/events/current.htm

31 January, 14h to 18h
Tribute to Kourouma
Write rs and researchers of Francophone literature will be paying tribute to
the work of Ahmadou Kourouma, the novelist from Cote d'Ivoire, who died
last year.
Venue:Sorbonne, Paris, France
More information: www.afrilivres.com

FEBRUARY
2-8 February
International Poetry Festival
Seventh annual Mali festival
Venue: towns of Mpoti, Bandiagara, Djenne and Sevare in Mali
Malian poets together with poets from Japan, Italy, Cameroon, Mauritius,
Venezuela and France
More information: www.afrilivres.com

4 February, 16:00
LECTURE: Francoise Ugochukwu - Before Things Fell Apart: Omenuko's Story, the First Igbo Novel and Achebe
Venue: Faculty Room South, David Hume Tower, George Sq, Edinburgh, Scotland
More information: email: African.Studies@ed.ac.uk or telephone: Pravina King on (+44) 0131 650 3878

5 February 2004, 17:00
LECTURE: Political representation in Ghana (1947-1981)
Venue: Fellow's Dining Room, St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, UK
More information: email: ulli.parkinson@sant.ox.ac.uk or telephone Ulli Parkinson on (+44) 01865 274477

10 February, 16:15-17:45
HARVARD AFRICA SEMINAR: Locating African Migrant Religions and Organized Crime within Local/Global Theatres
Venue: Robinson Lower Library, first floor of Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
More information: www.fas.harvard.edu/~cafrica/calendar.shtml or tel: 617 495-5265

10-14 February
The Trojan Women/or The women of Owu by Euripedes.
A fresh interpretation of the Greek tragedy by Femi Osofisan, one of Nigeria's leading writers.
Venue: Salisbury Playhouse, Salisbury, UK
More information: +44 01722 320333

11 February; 19:00
Anglo-Ethiopian Society: Magdala Revisited the Return of the Symbol of the Ark of the Covenant -an illustrated talk by Dr Ian MacLennan.
Venue:SOAS Room B102 (Brunei Building)
More information: 4 Gloucester Road, London, UK
Tel / Fax: +44 020 7584 6934; Email: secretary@anglo-ethiopian.org

12 February, 15:00 - 17:00
Seminar: Central Chad revisited. The long-term impact of drought and war in the Guera by Dr Mirjam de Bruijn
Venue: Africa Studies Centre, University of Leiden, Pieter de la Court building, Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden, Netherlands
More information: asc.leidenuniv.nl/events/current.htm

13-15 February
Sautiza za Busara (Sounds of Wisdom) Swahili Music and Cultural Festival from Tanzania, East Africa and beyond
Venue: Malindi Grounds, Zanzibar Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Further information: www.zanzibarmusic.org or email: busara@zanlink.com

19 February, 17.30
Lecture:Reclaiming Egypt’s Stolen Identity
Venue: Khalili Lecture, SOAS (jointly with CAS), Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, UK
More information: www.soas.ac.uk/cas or tel: (+44)020 7898 4390

24 February, 19:00
Aidan Hartley, author of The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War will be giving a talk, followed by a reception. An evening hosted by Professor Colin Bundy, director of SOAS.
Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS main building, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, UK
More information: email: rg28@soas.ac.uk or telephone (+44) 020 7898 4060 or visit www.soas.ac.uk

24 February,16:15-17:45
HARVARD AFRICA SEMINAR :"African Urban Health" by John Janzen Director, African Studies Resource Center
Venue: Robinson Lower Library, first floor of Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
More information: www.fas.harvard.edu/~cafrica/calendar.shtml or tel: 617 495-5265

26 February, 15:00 - 17:00
Seminar: The making of elite women within revolution and nation building. The case of Eritrea by Dr Tanja Müller
Venue: Africa Studies Centre, University of Leiden, Pieter de la Court building, Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden, Netherlands
More information: asc.leidenuniv.nl/events/current.htm

28 February – 7 March
Bath Literary festival:
2 March at 6.00pm
Writer-in-Residence: Mia Couto in conversation with David Brookshaw
Venue: The Guildhall
5 March at 6.30pm: Mia Couto
Venue: The Atrium Gallery
6 March at 4.00pm
Abdulrazak Gurnah on Cultural Travelling, Making Tracks: Romesh Gunesekera, Sunetra Gupta and Abdulrazak Gurnah
Venue: Guildhall, Bath, UK
More information: www.bathlitfest.org.uk or tel: (+44) 01865 302713 or (+44) 01225 463362

MARCH
2 March,16:15-17:45
HARVARD AFRICA SEMINAR : "Islam and Sharia in Nigerian Pentecostal Rhetoric" by Ogbu Kalu McCormick Theological School, Chicago
Venue: Robinson Lower Library, first floor of Robinson Hall, Harvard Yard,
35 Quincy St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
More information: www.fas.harvard.edu/~cafrica/calendar.shtml or tel: 617 495-5265

3 March
An Audience with Grace Nichols from Guyana: An Evening with Black Women Writers
Venue: Upstairs at The Spitz 109 Commercial Street, London, E1, UK
More information: Tel: (+44) 020 7247 2584

3 March, 16:00
LECTURE: John Marshall - Issues in Ethnographic Film Making and Development: the Ju/'Hoansi of Namibia
Venue: Faculty Room South, David Hume Tower, George Sq, Edinburgh, Scotland
More information: email: African.Studies@ed.ac.uk or telephone: Pravina King on (+44) 0131 6503878

5 - 6 March
Letters Home Festival - Exiles and Émigrés: South Africans writing abroad
Venue: School of Pythagoras, St John's College, University of Cambridge, UK.
Theme: A celebration of South African writing, with readings, critical papers, interviews and informal discussion - as well as film, music and art.
More information: www.thelettershomefestival.co.uk

6 March
Spitalfields Literary festival
Race Matters, or does it? Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Oona King MP, Maggie Gee, Susan Mumbua Franq and Dr Zaheda Amad discuss race and displacement.
Venue: Upstairs at The Spitz 109 Commercial Street, London , UK
More information: Tel (+44) 020 7247 2584

5-7 March
Wole Soyinka 70th birthday London Festival.
UK premiere of King Baabu, written and directed by Professor Soyinka
Venue: Hackney Empire, London, UK
More information: Jamin Ohwovoriole - email: wosofdt@yahoo.co.uk

14-16 March 2004
London Book Fair
Venue: Olympia, London, UK
Theme: Seminar series organised by Southern African Book Development Trust on The Role of Literary Festivals and Book Fairs in Promoting African Books and Reading
More information: www.lbf-virtual.com or visit Sabdet's website.

15 March, 17.30
The Gates of Africa lecture
Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS (jointly with CAS), Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, UK
More information: www.soas.ac.uk or tel: (+44)020 7898 4390

24 March; 19:00
Anglo-Ethiopian Society: Another Uproar - a film and talk by Jeffery Boswall who has visited Ethiopia 27 times since 1965, and will show the best bits from the nine films he made in Ethiopia.
Venue:SOAS Room G51: Main Building
More information: 4 Gloucester Road, London, UK
Tel / Fax: +44 020 7584 6934; Email: secretary@anglo-ethiopian.org

26 March 18h
Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival
African Writers Panel
Venue: Oxford Union, St Michael's Street, Oxford
Tel: 01865514149
More information: www.sundaytimes-oxfordliteraryfestival.co.uk

29 March
10 Years of French-South African Literary Exchange
Venue: French Institute of South Africa, Newtown, Johannesburg
More information: tel : +27 (11) 836 05 61/2/4 or e-mail: xavier@ifas.org.za

APRIL
14-18 April
African Literature Association, 30th Anniversary Conference
Venue: University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Theme: Verbal performance and visual cultures
More information at africa.wisc.edu

22 April -15 May
Master Harold and the Boys by Athol Fugard
Venue: Salisbury Playhouse, Salisbury, UK
More information: +44 01722 320333

28 April, 18.00
Lecture: No Enemies? Mandela’s Foreign Policy in the 1990s
Venue: Commonwealth Club, 18 Northumberland Avenue, London, UK
More information: www.royalafricansociety.org email: ras@soas.ac.uk/webpage or
tel: (+44)020 7898 4390

MAY
1 May - 31 May
The London African Music Festival 2004
Venue: The Royal Festival Hall, London
African artists including King Wasiu Ayinde, Sally Nyolo, Kekele, Thomas
Mapfumo, Mory Kante among others.
For more information, visit www.rfh.org.uk or telephone (+44) 020 7960 4242

6-10 May
Nigeria International Book Fair
Venue: Lagos, Nigeria
Theme: Book trade across boundaries
More information: www.nibf.org or email: info@nibf.org

28 - May 31 2004
Africa Festival Wuerzburg, Germany
Europe’s biggest festival for African music and culture.
More information at www.afro.wuerzburg.de

JUNE
8 June; 19:00
Anglo-Ethiopian Society: The Road to Bethlehem (Following in the Footsteps of Thomas Pakenham) - an illustrated talk by Gerald Gotzen.
Venue:SOAS Room G50: Main Building
More information: 4 Gloucester Road, London, UK
Tel / Fax: +44 020 7584 6934; Email: secretary@anglo-ethiopian.org

11 June
Afrika Tage München 2004
Music, Dance, Workshops, Market
Venue: Theresienwiese Konrad-Celtis-St, Munchen Germany
More information at www.afrika-tage.de, or abdelati@maxvita.de