Prestigious playwriting fellowship returns to campus

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to announce that its long-running Creative Fellowship is returning to its place on campus. The Fellowship will allow an early- to mid-career writer a nine-month paid residency to develop their work in an intellectually stimulating and supportive environment.

Creative collaboration

Every morning across Tanzania, crowds gather around street-side newspaper stands to read the headlines. The array of titles attests to the country’s vibrant and historical culture of printing and publishing, in both Swahili and English. While there is an extensive scholarship on the region’s colonial era print cultures, only recently have scholars of Tanzania revisited the post-independence decades in historical perspective. This period was characterised by the government’s ‘African socialist’ project.