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Shireen Hassim speaks to Eusebius McKaiser about the ANC Women's League on 567 Cape Talk and Talk Radio 702.

Achille Mbembe will take part in this year's Conrad Festival, alongside Siri Hustvedt, Agneta Pleijel, Adam Hochschild, Wojciech Brzoska, Maria Dąbrowska, Frédéric Boyer and Serge Bloch. The Festival takes place in Krakow, Poland, 23-29 October. For more information, see here.

On 23-24 October 2017, the Université catholique de Louvain will hold a workshop on Achille Mbembe's work, before awarding him with an honorary doctorate. For more information, see here.

An interview with Felwine Sarr and Achille Mbembe about their new collection of essays Écrire l’Afrique-Monde.

Hlonipha Mokoena was interviewed recently by Eusebius McKaiser on Radio 702 and CapeTalk. She discussed the history and meanings of the knobkerrie. The podcast is available here.

Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall will speak at 'The Critical Tasks of the University,' a conference organised by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programmes at the University of Bologna, 22-24 July 2017. For more information and for the programme, see here.

WiSER Research Associate Bongani Madondo has been shortlisted for the UJ Prize for South African Writing for his recent book Sigh, the Beloved Country.

An audio recording of WiSER's launch of the new, South African edition and English translation of Achille Mbembe's Critique of Black Reason: https://archive.org/details/MbembeLaunchCritiqueOfBlackReason6June2017

Writer-in-residence at WiSER, Bongani Madondo, has recently published an essay in the New Yorker. He writes about South African photographer Sabelo Mlangeni.

The Sunday Times interviews Christa Kuljian about her Alan Paton Prize-shortlisted book Darwin's Hunch.