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ATCAL (the acronym originally stood for the Association for the Teaching of African and Caribbean Literature, [4] but was soon extended to include Asian material) was founded by past members of the Caribbean Artists Movement at a conference at the University of Kent in 1978, [5] and was inaugurated in 1979, its first meeting — entitled "How to Teach Caribbean and African Literature in ...
The African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA), commonly referred to as AfLIA, [1] [2] is an international not-for-profit organization headquartered in Accra, Ghana. [3] [4] The Association is registered under the laws of Ghana as an NGO. It is managed under the general guidelines of its Constitution and by-laws. [5]
The following is a list of international organizations in which the Philippines officially participates. List International organization membership of the Philippines [ edit ]
According to the African Writers Trust website, the organization's projected activities and programmes include establishing a Creative Writing School in Uganda, holding the African Writers Trust workshop and competition on an annual basis and in a different nation each year, establishing a Writer's Fund to allow an established African Diaspora writer to spend a semester at an African ...
The Pan African Writers' Association (PAWA), founded in November 1989, is a Ghana-based cultural institution "born in the larger crucible of Pan Africanism" [1] that is an umbrella body of writers' associations on the African continent and the Diaspora. [2]
As George Joseph notes in his chapter on African Literature [3] in Understanding Contemporary Africa, whereas European views of literature stressed a separation of art and content, African awareness is inclusive and "literature" can also simply mean an artistic use of words for the sake of art alone. Traditionally, Africans do not radically ...
The College Language Association (CLA) is a professional association of Black scholars and educators who teach English and foreign languages. [1] Founded in 1937 by a group of African-American language and literature scholars, the organization "serves the academic, scholarly and professional interests of its members and the collegiate communities they represent."
At the conference, several nationalist writers refused to acknowledge any literature written in non-African languages as being African literature. Ngũgĩ noted the irony of the conference's title, in that it excluded a great part of the population that did not write in English, while trying to define African literature but accepting that it must be in English. [10]