African Literature Association

Association of Scholars, Writers and Teachers

Geneva

Contact: (Tel) 315.781.3491

africanlit.org

Description:

The African Literature Association is an independent non-profit professional society open to scholars, teachers and writers from every country. It exists primarily to facilitate the attempts of a world-wide audience to appreciate the efforts of African writers and artists. The organization welcomes the participation of all who produce the object of our study and hopes for a constructive interaction between scholars and artists. The ALA as an organization affirms the primacy of the African peoples in shaping the future of African literature and actively supports the African peoples in their struggle for liberation.

African Literature Today

Academic Journal

New York

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/521704

African Music Celebrity News (Shoutmeceleb)

Online portal

shoutmeceleb.com

African Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies

Research project

London, UK

screenworlds.org

Description:

African Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies’ is a  five-year, European Research Council-funded research project led by Professor Lindiwe Dovey and hosted at SOAS University of London (from 2019 to 2024). Through producing research films, video essays, edited books, articles, and toolkits, and through curating workshops, conversations, film screenings and panel discussions, the project explores in particular Africans’ contributions to the diverse, complex screen worlds that make up audiovisual cultures in our contemporary moment. It is also interested in putting African cinemas into conversation with other regional cinemas so that we can theorise global screen worlds in more inclusive, nuanced, decolonised ways.

African Studies Association

Membership-based academic community

USA

Contact: Rutgers University – Livingston Campus
54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8045

Phone: 848-445-8173

Description:

Established in 1957, the African Studies Association is the flagship membership organization devoted to enhancing the exchange of information about Africa. With almost 2,000 individual and institutional members worldwide, the African Studies Association encourages the production and dissemination of knowledge about Africa, past and present. Based in the United States, the ASA supports understanding of an entire continent in each facet of its political, economic, social, cultural, artistic, scientific, and environmental landscape. Our members include scholars, students, teachers, activists, development professionals, policymakers and donors.

African  Union Department of Political Affairs, Peace and Security (PAPS)

Regional Body

Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

au.int/en/paps

Description:

The political affairs body of the AU, a body that brings together all 54 African countries

African Writer Magazine

Online Publishing

New Jersey

africanwriter.com

Description:

African Writer Magazine is a New Jersey-based monthly publication that celebrates established and emerging African writers, literature and ideas. For almost two decades, we have laid out a conspicuous platform exhibiting the best of contributions from African Writers worldwide. It is powered wholly by volunteers.

African Writers Trust

Non-profit organization

London, UK and Kampala, Uganda

africanwriterstrust.org

Description:

Established in 2009, the African Writers Trust is a body that aims to bridge the divide between African writers and publishing professionals living in the Diaspora and on the continent, bringing them together in order to promote synergies and to foster knowledge and learning between the two groups. We have bases in London, UK and Kampala, Uganda where the organization is registered as a non for profit.