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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]
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]
With liberation and increased literacy since most African nations gained their independence in the 1950s and 1960s, African literature has grown dramatically in quantity and in recognition, with numerous African works appearing in Western academic curricula and on "best of" lists compiled since the end of the 20th century.
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Literature of Sierra Leone is the collection of written and spoken work, mostly fictional, from Sierra Leone. The coastal west-African country suffered a civil war from 1991 until 2002. Before the civil war, Sierra Leone had many writers contributing to its literature and since the end of the war the country has been in the process of ...
The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) is a non-profit organization that promotes Nigerian literature. It represents Nigerian creative writers at home and abroad. It was founded in 1981 by Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe as its president. [1] [2] The immediate past President is Alhaji Denja Abdullahi.