10/08/2023
KADUNA STATE UNIVERSITY UPDATE:
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK) INTERNATIONAL WRITING WORKSHOP
THEME: Amplifying Women’s Voices in Hausa Cultural Studies: Writing and Publishing Workshop for Early Career Women Academics from West Africa is about to commence in Abuja – Nigeria from today 7th to 12th August 2023.
The workshop is a joint partnership between the SOAS, University of London, Kaduna State University, Nigeria and the Hausa International Book and Arts Festival, (HIBAF), Kaduna- Nigeria, with funding support from the British Academy, UK.
This workshop seeks to amplify the voices of West African early-career academic women working in the field of Hausa Cultural studies and related fields.
During the four-day workshop participants will work on developing their writing, revising for publication, building their research profile, and strengthening their networks. They will also have the opportunity to interact with experts from high-impact journals across the globe.
During the workshop, the participants will receive feedback from experienced academics and will be paired with mentors for peer review and one-on-one feedback.
The 4-day on-site workshop will consist of a hybrid of virtual and on-site events. Editors and publishers from international high-impact journals publishing in African literature and cultural studies will provide virtual as well as on-site expert advice.
Participants will interact with academic experts in the field and editors of reputable international journals to learn about writing articles; publication procedures; identifying appropriate journals; research methods; reviews; adapting conference papers and thesis chapters into journal articles; and writing successful grant applications.
After the physical workshop, participants will engage in a six-month mentorship to revise their articles and ready them for submission to journals. The aim is to publish the revised papers as a special issue in a relevant international academic journal.
The conveners of the workshop are Professor Ibrahim Malumfashi, Kaduna State University, Kaduna-Nigeria, Dr Carmen McCain, SOAS, University of London, UK and Sada Malumfashi, Open Arts Development Foundation, Kaduna, Nigeria.
During these four days, the organisers will be supported by a team of academic facilitators and editors who will serve as workshop mentors that include; Dr Aisha Bawa of Usmanu Ɗanfodiyo University, Sokoto, Professor Saheed Aderinto, Florida International University, US, Professor Abdallah Uba Adamu, Bayero University, Kano-Nigeria, Dr Carli Coetzee, Editor, Journal of African Cultural Studies, United Kingdom, Professor Remi Raji, Co-Editor, Matatu Journal of African Culture and Society, Germany, Janet Remmington, Global Portfolio Director, Routledge Taylor & Francis UK, Professor Madu Krishna, and Dr Dima Chami, from University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
The workshop is predicated on the understanding that over the past forty years, there have been thousands of novels written in Hausa, many of them by women, and hundreds of films based on these novels or with women’s input as screenwriters or producers. However, of the scholarly discussion of these novels or films that have made it into larger conversations about African literature and film, the most well-known and well-cited scholarship has largely been published by men and international scholars, rather than by women closest to these experiences.
Indeed such research is valuable but incomplete, and these imbalances are echoed in other fields of cultural studies research in Northern Nigeria and Niger. This imbalance comes largely from the inequitable structuring of both international and local university education.
Consequently, this workshop seeks to amplify the scholarship being done by women from Hausa-speaking regions by providing female scholars access to networking activities, information about international publishing and grant applications, and opportunities to exchange and revise ongoing work.
Signed
Adamu Nuhu Bargo
P.R.O-KASU
