African Literary Cities: Hubs, Maps and Literary Urban Ecologies is a collaborative project between the Department of English Literary Studies and the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town. 

The project addresses the “absenting” of African literary cities—a complex engagement with cityness and literariness—in both globally authoritative cultural policy discourses and the emerging scholarly field of Literary Urban Studies. Funded by the National Research Foundation, this project is co-led by Dr. Polo Moji and Dr. Laura Nkula-Wenz.

As one of the Doek Literary Festival’s hosting partners, the African Literary Cities Project will investigate Windhoek’s literary projects and arts organisation and the ways in which they interact with the urban landscape.