CREATIVITY, DISSIDENCE AND WOMEN – A COURSE WITH NAWAL EL-SAADAWI Date: 19-21 November 2010 Venue: Goldsmiths College, London A rare opportunity to be taught by Writer and Activist Nawal el Saadawi. Nawal el Saadawi is a popular speaker and writer in the UK. For the first time ever she will be facilitating a course on [...]

The sad news has reached us of the deaths of the President of Haiti PEN, Georges Anglade and his wife Mireille Neptune as two of the lives lost in the Earthquake. At the last PEN Congress held in Linz, Austria in October 2009, Margaret Busby, Nii Parkes and Kadija George met Georges and Mireille. Nii [...]

Friday 20 November 6pm AWA meeting – Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer , London SE1.(not the Royal Festival Hall but as you face it, the building on the left, where the Purcell Room is) Nearest underground: Waterloo or Embankment Agenda – Aims and objectives of the Centre;AWA Achievements;Taking the Centre forward; officer roles; membership; [...]

On 28 November 2009, please join us for a remembrance in music, images and words as Artists, friends, colleagues and family come together to pay their respects and celebrate the life of Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Gueye, the Pan African Activist, Poet, and Critic. 26 November 1954 – 12th September 2009 Cheikh Ahmed Tidiane Gueye This [...]

Debut Playwright Lydia Besong and Human Rights Campaigner Bernard Batey told to leave UK Lydia Besong is a writer.  Her debut play “How I Became an Asylum Seeker” is being staged by Community Arts Northwest (CAN) at the Zion Theater in Hulme, Manchester on 3rd December.  She is also on the Management Committee of WAST [...]