Nobel Symposium in Literature - Retrieving Pasts, Imagining Futures: Creative Forms in African Writing

In the 21st Century African writing exists as a powerful creative force on the stage of world literature. This symposium invites writers and academics to consider the unique contribution African writing can make to reformulating the destructive narratives of the past and the present. Rather than thinking of Africa as ‘following after’ the developed world, we propose writing from Africa as the site for thinking of alternative paths to the future. The 204^th Nobel Symposium on Retrieving Pasts, Imagining Futures: Creative Forms in African Writing from 03 – 07 November 2025will be the fifth symposium in the Nobel in Africaseries at STIAS. The invitation-only symposium will gather around 50 of the world’s leading scholars and writers, in the field of African writing, with lectures, discussions and an outreach programme. Please visit www.stias.ac.za/nobel-in-africa/ for further information. Convenors: Abdulrazak Gurnah (University of Kent), Maria Olaussen (University of Gothenburg), Louise Green (Stellenbosch University) and Tina Steiner (Stellenbosch University)   [caption id="attachment_32408" align="alignleft" width="282"] Click on the image to download the programme.[/caption]