Writers Afrika

We require the services of a Freelance Journalist/Correspondent. Our publication is predominantly ICT-based that focuses exclusively on the latest happenings in the ICT Industry in general.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Reporting/corresponding of latest news in the ICT Industry;
• Building contacts to maintain a flows of news in the ICT Industry e.g. telecommunications, internet, hardware, software, etc. from variety of organizations and the general public;
• Seeking out and investigating stories via your contacts, press releases and other media;
• Attending press conferences and asking questions;
• Attending a variety of ICT events such as Product Launch, Meetings e.t.c
• Working closely with the News Team, photographers and editors;
• Recording interviews and meetings using shorthand or technical equipment;
• Producing brief and accurate copy according to the newspaper’s house style;
• Creating and uploading news content for the ICT Newspaper

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum of OND, HND or Bsc in Mass Communication;
• At least one year journalism experience;
• Strong written and oral communication skills;
• A keen interest in ICT industry and accurate spelling, grammar and punctuation;
• Good organization skills and the ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines;
• Ability to grasp complex issues quickly and explain them in simple, concise language;
• Resilience, determination, flexibility, persistence and motivation;
• Must have reliable access to a PC/or Laptop with Internet connection;
• Ability to work in and outside Lagos.

SALARY/REMUNERATION:

Very attractive + other benefits & remuneration

METHOD OF APPLICATION:

All interested applicant should send their resume to career@technologyavenue.com.ng. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for interview.


CONTACT INFORMATION:

Questions/ applications: career@technologyavenue.com.ng

Website: http://www.technologyavenue.com.ng/

Deadline: 30 June 2013

postamble is a dynamic multidisciplinary, graduate and early careers journal based in the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. Peer-reviewed and published bi-annually on-line,postamble serves as a platform for emerging critical thinkers.

Call for Papers for Volume 8, Number 2, 2013
‘Developments in African Film, Television and Screen’

The camera lens holds a potent symbolic weight within colonial and postcolonial Africa. With a history of being captured and often exploited on celluloid, the continent is now becoming a dynamic site of local cinematic representation and production. In both form and content, Africa’s television and film industry has boomed to allow for myriad creative, popular and political stories to reach local audiences – whether the context is a television set within the domestic home, a large scale projection at Burkina Faso’s Fespaco Festival, a makeshift movie house in a backyard, or a computer. Nollywood has come to define a new era of mass filmmaking and distribution, giving rise to a whole generation of rapidly produced and consumed movies across the continent. Changing technologies are allowing for more experimentation and access, as well as better quality and delivery in multiple genres of the screen. And, increasing demand for material from both within and without the continent is challenging African writers, producers and directors to develop original and exciting projects, for both local and wider audiences.

Responding to this vital climate, postamble invites you to submit academic papers, film and book reviews, interviews and photographic essays for consideration for the upcoming edition: ‘Developments in African Film, Television and Screen’.

We welcome, but are not limited to, submissions which examine more established genres of the screen – documentary, cinema and television (drama, news broadcasting, music videos, series) – as well more specialised areas like visual anthropology, video/film art and web-based broadcasts and programmes. We are excited to receive work with examines the less visible phenomena of the industry: such as its aesthetics, languages and discourses; intersections between culture and politics in form, method and reception; questions around the image as a commodity; the relationships between production/’text’/audience; the tensions between contemporary and historical screen representations and narratives of Africa, and so on. We are also interested in submissions which interrogate the more practical roles and functions within or of the industry – a few examples: local screening and audience practices; the figure of the African film maker; production logistics; rules of celebrity; actors and performance; patterns in investment, distribution, production; skills training and future developments.

Send abstracts and biographies to the Managing Editor: postamble@gmail.com

Please see our website for submission guidelines.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Questions/ submissions: postamble@gmail.com

Website: http://postamble.org/

Deadline: 12 June 2013

Farafina Trust will be holding a creative writing workshop in Lagos, organized by award winning writer and creative director of Farafina Trust, Chimamanda Adichie, from August 6 to August 16 2013. The Caine Prize winning Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina, and others will co-teach the workshop alongside Adichie.

The workshop will take the form of a class. Participants will be assigned a wide range of reading exercises, as well as daily writing exercises. The aim of the workshop is to improve the craft of writers and to encourage published and unpublished writers by bringing different perspective to the art of storytelling.

Participation is limited only to those who apply and are accepted.

All material must be pasted or written in the body of the e-mail. Do NOT include any attachments in your e-mail. Applications with attachments will be automatically disqualified. Deadline for submission is JUNE 12 2013.

Only those accepted to the workshop will be notified by JULY 22 2013. Accommodation in Lagos will be provided for all accepted applicants who are able to attend for the ten-day duration of the workshop. A literary evening of readings, open to the public, will be held at the end of the workshop on August 16 2013.

To apply, send an e-mail to udonandu2013@gmail.com Your e-mail subject should read ‘Workshop Application’. The body of the e-mail should contain the following:

• Your Name
• Your Address
• A few sentences about yourself
• A writing sample of between 200 and 800 words. The sample must be either fiction or non-fiction

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Questions/ applications: udonandu2013@gmail.com

Website: http://farafinatrust.org/

Deadline: 23 June 2013

Poetry Club of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta calls for poetry submissions from established and upcoming poets in Nigeria/Africa. Poetry Club of MAPOLY believes man cannot not communicate, so hereby enjoined all established and upcoming poets to contribute to this first edition of E-Book of not more than fifty poems.

The proposed titled of the anthology is African Eyeball. There are no restricted subject matters or themes but submissions that address social and political issues in Nigeria/Africa may be given more consideration. Please, do not submit more than one poem and sexually explicit poems will not be accepted.

The E-Book will be published on the Society of Young Nigerian Writers’ blog (Society that celebrates young Nigerian creative writers www.societyofyoungnigerianwriters.wordpress.com) and Words Rhymes and Rhythm Poetry’s Blog (WRRPoetry, a community of poets, publishes 21 poems per week on www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry). The selected poems may be edited by Kukogho Iruesini Samson, an online reporter at Media Trust (Daily Trust Newspapers) and editor and curator or WRRPoetry

The E-Book aims to medium of showing the best of new Nigerian/African poetry. Your writing is not yet best without your audience view. You are then enjoined to communicate to the people through your poetry.

GUIDELINES:

• Do not submit more than one poem
• Poem must not exceed forty lines (brevity will also be considered)
• A short biographical note of less than fifty words should be sent in the body of the email
• Submission opens 20 May, 2013
• Deadline: 23 June, 2013
• Publication should be expected three months after from the closing date
• Submission is free
• Submission should be in the body of the mail

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Questions/ submissions: pcmmapoly@ymail.com

Website: http://www.societyforyoungwriters.webs.com/