In May 2019, Afrikaanse [African] letterkunde. Tradities, genres, auteurs en ontwikkelingen, so far the one and only handbook of African literature in the Dutch language, will come out in a brand new edition at Amsterdam University Press. Mineke Schipper first published the book in 1983 and then in an updated version in 1990.

The forthcoming AUP edition was co-written by Mineke Schipper, Daniela Merolla and Inge Brinkman. It includes new developments in African literatures over the last 25 years and more information on literature in African languages, and it explores the literary connections between Africa south of the Sahara and North-Africa.

Links: Mineke Schipper / Foto: VPRO Boeken [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

The new edition will be celebrated with a festive programme including the following speakers: Annachiara Raia, specialist on oral and written African literatures and Leiden University lecturer, Asis Aynan, writer and initiator of the “Berber Bibliotheek”, a series in which classical books from Berber countries appear, and Ama van Dantzig, creative thinker about the arts, Africa and the world. Brief comments on the book by each of the authors will be followed by a convivial reception offered by the publisher.

Moderator: Annachiara Raia, LUCAS and ASCL

You can purchase the book at the booklaunch for € 29,95.

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Programme:

15.00-15.10:

Welcome speech by ASCL director Jan-Bart Gewald

15.10-15.25:

Presentation by Annachiara Raia: “Reading African-language literatures”

15.25-15.40:

Presentation by Asis Aynan (in Dutch)

15.40-15.55:

Presentation by Ama van Dantzig

15.55-16.10:

Tea/coffee break

16.10-16.25:

Short presentation of each of the authors on their contributions to the book

16.25-16.35:

Presentation of the newly published book to the authors, by Prof. Peter Geschiere

16.35-17.00:

Questions & answers, and possibility to purchase the book

17.00-18.00:

Drinks offered by Amsterdam University Press

Source: Website African Studies Centre Leiden

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Date and time: 17 May 2019, 15.00-17.00

Location: Pieter de la Courtgebouw / Faculty of Social Sciences

Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden

Room 1A01 (1st floor)

Register for this seminar: asc@ascleiden.nl

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