Special issues

Études littéraires africaines. Special issue edited by Claire Ducournau: “Awa: la revue de la femme noire entre presse et littérature”, 47, June 2019. Contents page available here.

Études littéraires africaines. Special issue edited by Claire Ducournau: “Presse et littérature africaines”, 48, December 2019. Contents page available here.

Research in African Literatures. Special issue edited by Ruth Bush and Claire Ducournau: “African Audiences: Making Meaning across Media”, 51.1, Spring 2020. Contents page available here.

Articles

Ruth Bush, ‘”Mesdames, il faut lire!” Material contexts and representational strategies in early francophone African women’s magazines’, Francosphères 5.20, 2016. Read here

Claire Ducournau, “« Boîte à lettres » et signatures : l’auctorialité partagée des femmes dans Awa” Études Littéraires africaines, 47, June 2019. Read here.

“AWA”, SWAG (Something We Africans Got) magazine. Edited by Alix Koffi. Issue 10, 2019, 254–267. Available to purchase here.

Ruth Bush & Claire Ducournau, ‘“Small Readers” and Big Magazines: Reading Publics in Bingo, La Vie Africaine, and Awa: la revue de la femme noire’, Research in African Literatures 51.1, 2020. Read here (subscription required – please contact us if you would like access).

Blogs

Ruth Bush, “Digitising militant glossy magazines in francophone Africa” Afro-Asian Visions. March 2017. Available here.

Paul Jones, “Awa magazine: building an online magazine archive”. PJS Web. April 2018. Available here.

“Awa: la revue de la femme noire. Entretien avec Claire Ducournau” Fotota, edited by Érika Nimis and Marian Nur Goni, August 2019. Available here.

Rama Salla Dieng, “Women’s political consciousness in Senegal: Interview with Ruth Bush” Africa is a Country. May 2020. Available here.