Having a conference in London with an early start on the 21 April I travelled down the day before and thought that I would catch a few exhibitions that I had noted on the internet. My travels started at the National Portrait Gallery. For reasons that I was not entirely sure about, the National PortraitContinue reading “Globalising Tate Modern”
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Saying and Not Saying
A recent email request has got me thinking this week. This was from a site that monitors published articles, and they wrote to ask if I had written the paper ‘Listening to the Language, Listening to the Words and Listening to the Spaces between the Words, Rhetoric and Pragmatics in the Performance of Christian-Muslim Relations’Continue reading “Saying and Not Saying”
Reflection on Some Waves of African Scholarship
I have been reading three books recently, all of which have reminded me of something I knew perfectly well, but like so many others, had actually forgotten. Alongside the independence movement across Africa there was a flourishing of confident African writing, both literature and scholarship that began to have a significant impact well beyond AfricaContinue reading “Reflection on Some Waves of African Scholarship”
Martin Stringer Quartet 