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Welcome to IRCALC!

 

IRCALC is an online council of writers, scholars and researchers around the world operating with common interest in African studies, particularly the literature, arts and cultures of Africa and her Diaspora through the website of Africa Research International. IRCALC editors also see to the regular volumes of the journals of Critical Studies (CS), African Literature and Culture (JAL) and New Poetry (NP).

For years IRCALC initiatives in research in African literature with member organizations, college departments, libraries and individuals across the Diaspora have provided information, ideas, and research that enrich understanding of Africa's rich and diverse cultural heritage .

Members cut across all races and nationalities and are committed to a more imaginative approach to Africa's development issues. CS, JAL and NP journal publications are available online or by subscription. Contributing individual and institutional members also receive regular reviews and newsletters of the organisation.

 

 

 

IRCALC Literary Reviews

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[Journal of African Literature and Culture JALC No. 3

 Anezi Okoro: The Flying Tortoise

 Judith Coullie: The Closest of Strangers

 Bettina Weiss (Ed.) The End of Unheard Narratives:

(Contemporary Perspectives on Southern African Literature)

 

 

[Journal of New Poetry NP V3  2006]

 Ana Raquel Lourenço Fernandes et al (Eds.) Poemas da

Guiné-Bissau (Poems From Guinea-Bissau) 

 Kei Miller. Kingdom of Empty Bellies

 Joy Etiowo. Mma and other Poems

 

[Journal of New Nigerian Poetry NNP No. 2  2005]

 Ukam's Little Cobra

 

[Africa Literary Journal ALJ No. 2  2005]

 A Reading of Abubakar Gimba's Innocent Victims and Sunset for a Mandarin

 

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Membership entitles you to receiving copies of JAL-ALJ and regular   publications of IRCALC. You could also become eligible to join the IRCALC Team of Scholarly Reviewers who bring new and existing books on African literature to public readership. Names of Sustaining and Team members are published in the IRCALC Newsletter/Directory.

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  • Submit an Abstract 

Send an abstract or synopsis of your research paper for consideration. We also welcome text or book reviews, book news and publication information, photographs, drawings, recordings of art and artistic impressions, music, films and translations of foreign language materials, et cetera. Original language may be in English or French. Other foreign languages should be accompanied with English translations.

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Be a partner and actively support our research team effort. Team members are welcome to send their ideas and suggestions.
We also welcome, from writers and scholars other useful information concerning allied agencies/ organisations for the continued sustenance of this African literary project.  Download Partnership Sign-Up Form

 

  • College Students' Membership Offer

Sign up for Student Membership and receive free PDF Books and Journals from IRCALC.

 

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Editorial Directors: C Smith, C. Ce

 Africa Editorial Advisers: K Awoonor, E Emenyonu, R Egudu, O Obafemi, N Osundare, O Enekwe, G Elem, V Kemoli , I Kalu , A Kofi

Project Editors:  GMT Emezue,  I Marques; Graphic : Ml Randall;
Reviewers:
CN Nke'makolam, AB Amoah,  Marlene de la Cruz-Guzman, J Westmoreland-Bourchard, A Grants, M Lillet, J Ushie, O Oha;

 

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