The Research of the South: Positioning Africa (PROSPA) programme hosted a Publishing Workshop in a different African city each year. The goals of the workshops were to increase and strengthen publishing in the field of the visual and performing arts of Africa, and to prepare articles for publication in relevant scholarly journals. 

Photo: Angelo Kakande, Pauline Bullen, Eria Nsubuga, Aidah Nalubowa, Fadzai Muchemwa, Ruth Simbao, Andrew Mulenga, George Kyeyune (left to right). Photo by Paul Greenway.

The 2016 PROSPA Publishing Workshop was hosted by Prof Ruth Simbao at Rhodes University in Makhanda, South Africa, and included participants from Uganda, Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa.  

The 2017 PROSPA Publishing workshop was held in Kampala, Uganda and was co-hosted by Rhodes University (Prof Ruth Simbao) and Makerere University (Prof Amanda Tumusiime).

The 2018 PROSPA Publishing Workshop was hosted by Rhodes University (Prof Ruth Simbao and Prof Stephen Folaranmi) in collaboration with BLAXTARLINES from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). 

The 2019 PROPSA Publishing Workshop was held at the University of Lagos, Nigeria and was co-hosted by Prof Ruth Simbao and Dr Ganiyu Jimoh. 

The 2021 PROSPA Publishing Workshop was co-hosted by Prof Ruth Simbao, Prof Stephen Folaranmi and Dr Rachel Baasch, and participants worked on the forthcoming book, Audacious Art Practices.  

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