The Chinese in Africa/Africans in China (CA/AC) Research Network, Guangdong Times Museum, and Arts of Africa & Global Souths Research Program at Rhodes University, South Africa invite African and Chinese artists to participate in a workshop for Global Souths artists at the 6th Conference of the CA/AC that will be held at Lingnan University, Hong Kong from 9 to 11 July 2020.

The Department of Creative Arts, University of Lagos, Nigeria in collaboration with the Arts of Africa and the Global Souths Research Programme at Rhodes University, South Africa, will host a Publishing Workshop at the University of Lagos from Monday, November 4 to Friday, November 8, 2019.

Suitable candidates are invited to apply for a Postdoctoral Fellowship hosted by the National Research Foundation SARChI Chair in Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa at Rhodes University, South Africa. The successful Postdoctoral Fellow will be an active participant in the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme, which comprises Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa (NRF/DST) and Publishing and Research of the South: Positioning Africa (Mellon). The programme is based in the Fine Art Department at Rhodes University.

The Department of Creative Arts at the University of Lagos, Nigeria and the Arts of Africa and the Global Souths research programme at Rhodes University, South Africa will host a eight day publishing workshop in Lagos, Nigeria from 1 - 8 November 2019.

The Mellon 30th anniversary seminar programme “Southern Epistemologies: Thinking Beyond the Abyss for a Transformative Curriculum” and the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme warmly invite you to Five Bhobh Conversations with Zeitz MOCAA Curator Tandazani Dhlakama and Artist Richard Mudariki, Thursday 23 May 2019

A new and exciting issue of the African Arts journal is out, featuring Stacey Gillian Abe's photograph on the front cover. Congratulations to everyone involved! Part of this issue grew out of the Kampala publishing workshop, which was a collaboration between Rhodes University and Makerere University.

The Inter-Regional Conference/Workshop was organized by the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) for the Doctoral students of the universities in the Eastern and Western Capes of South Africa.

Exactly one year after the Inaugural exhibition of the Raw Gallery at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, Layiwola returns with another solo exhibition titled, Indigo Reimagined. This exhibition revisits the indigenous clothing tradition of dyed fabrics known as adire in south-western Nigeria.

The Arts of Africa and the Global Souths* research programme invites scholarly writers working in the visual arts to apply for a Writer’s Residency hosted by Rhodes University in Makhanda, South Africa.

You are warmly invited to the exhibition Black Mountain by Stary Mwaba. Stary Mwaba is a MFA candidate in the Fine Art Department and a member of the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme.

The Residencies for Artists and Writers (RAW) programme warmly invites you to a seminar presentation by Dr Nadine Siegert (Writer in Residence) from the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Dr Nadine Siegert from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, is visiting Rhodes University as a Writer in Residence with the Residencies for Artists and Writers (RAW) programme.

Rhodes University student, Philiswa Lila has won this year’s Absa L’Atelier Gerard Sekoto Award. In her second-year of Masters in Art History (forms part of the SARChl research – The Geopolitics of Africa), her research focuses on questioning the role of ritual as a mediums of physicality and spirituality in African contemporary visual arts performance.

Suitable candidates are invited to apply for a Postdoctoral Fellowship hosted by the National Research Foundation SARChI Chair in Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa at Rhodes University, South Africa. The successful Postdoctoral Fellow will be an active participant in the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme, which comprises Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa (NRF/DST) and Publishing and Research of the South: Positioning Africa (Mellon). The programme is based in the Fine Art Department at Rhodes University.

ARTS OF AFRICA AND GLOBAL SOUTHS comprises the SARChI research programme (Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa) supported by the National Research Foundation (NRF) in South Africa, and the Publishing and Research of the South: Positioning Africa (PROSPA) research programme funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

You are warmly invited to the exhibition "framed in colonial lenses" by the Harare-based artist Moffat Takadiwa. Takadiwa was a RAW Fellow in the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme in the Fine Art Department from July to August 2018.

Arts Lounge Africa, Grahamstown, South Africa, 30 June 2018 – 4 July 2018. ARTS LOUNGE AFRICA is a platform for live art, conversations with artists, and exhibitions that is activated during the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa. It is organized and hosted by the Arts of Africa and Global Souths research team at Rhodes University.

On the 19th of April 2018, a group of scholars gathered at Wits University in Johannesburg to discuss a proposed African Center for Chinese Studies. The meeting was convened by Professor Philip Harrison, SARChI Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, and Professor Dilip Menon, Director of the Centre for Indian Studies at Wits University.

Emergency Exit, is a solo exhibition by Wallen Mapondera a multi-disciplinary artist who creates work through painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. Mapondera is best known for his complex wall sculptures, which create richly textured abstract surfaces out of textiles and cardboard and as well as for his paintings whereby he interrogates the human-animal relationship as a metaphor for political power within hierarchies.

The new Arts of Africa and Global Souths Arts Lounge and RAW Spot Gallery opened on 13 June 2018 at Rhodes University.

The Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme warmly invites you to a special Africa Day collaborative seminar on Friday the 25th of May, presented by our two Residencies for Artists and Writers (RAW) Fellows, Prof Adepeju Layiwola and Dr Patrick Oloko.

Professor Peju Layiwola, Head, Department of Creative Arts, and Dr. Patrick Oloko, a senior lecturer in the Department of English, have been awarded the Rhodes Artist and Writer (RAW) Residency Fellowship Programme for 2018.

The Arts of Africa and Global Souths research group warmly invites you to a talk by Dr Eyitayo Ijisakin

The Arts of Africa and Global Souths research programme in the Fine Art Department and the ACLS AHP programme warmly invite you to a talk by Dr Angelo Kakande from Makerere University

Fine Art master’s student Wallen Mapondera is on track in his meteoric rise to international recognition in the art circles.

Ntaba kaNdoda has long been considered by amaXhosa as a place of sanctuary, a revered place that became a symbol of the former Ciskei.

This exhibition explores the erasure of women’s narratives from Zambian history and collective memory.

The Arts of Africa and Global Souths research group in the Fine Art Department, warmly invites you to a seminar presentation by Dr Rose Namubiru Kirumira (Senior Lecturer, Makerere University, Uganda) who is currently a Mellon Writer in Residence in the Fine Art Department.

Suitable candidates are invited to apply for a Postdoctoral Fellowship hosted by the National Research Foundation SARChI Chair in Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa at Rhodes University, South Africa.

ARTS OF AFRICA AND GLOBAL SOUTHS comprises the Publishing and Research of the South: Positioning Africa (PROSPA) research programme funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa SARChI programme supported by the National Research Foundation in South Africa.

From the 4th to the 8th of July 2017, seventeen scholars from Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa met in Kampala to discuss publishing in the field of the visual and performing arts of Africa.

You are warmly invited to the opening of Bright Ackwerh’s exhibition “Where de cho dey?” curated by Ruth Simbao.