May 11, 2020

  • The 2020 Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Book Prize For Outstanding Original Scholarship on Gender and Sexuality in the African Diaspora
  • The 2020 Sterling Stuckey Book Prize
  • 2020 Outstanding First Book Prize
  • Outstanding Article Prize
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How does the African Futurist genre (re)imagine gender norms, sexual identities, and issues of feminism on the continent? This special issue will explore questions of gender and sexuality in “African Futurism,” a term that has gained currency since Nigerian-American novelist Read More...

Evoke: A Historical, Theoretical, and Cultural Analysis of Africana Dance and Theatre is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed digital journal that fosters research, critical analysis, and vigorous discourse, on Africana (African, African diaspora, and African American) dance, theatre, and Read More...

Mainstream narratives of Pan-African activism/Black Nationalist movement have almost always downplayed the intellectual and political contributions of Afro-Caribbean nationalist women. This call, therefore, invites scholars, researcher, and writers from the African Diaspora, both Read More...

In Africa, the political party (as well as the Trade Union) has been one of the most successful acculturations in order to enforce social and political change during colonial times. Within the new African States -especially after 1990 and the rise of multiparty elections - an inflated number of Read More...