The Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora (LOATAD) is pleased to announce our new fellowship – The Professor Ian H. Munro Fellowship.
The Fellowship is named in honour of the American professor of African and Caribbean literature who, in 2022, became LOATAD’s biggest benefactor when he donated his collection of circa 2000 books and journals, many rare and out of print, to the library.
In recognition of this gift, and as an integral part of our commitment to Ghanaian and African knowledge production, LOATAD will award one Ghanaian or Ghana-based writer or cultural practitioner with a three-month non-sequential Fellowship to work on a project that makes significant and substantial use of the Munro Collection.
The details of the Fellowship are:
- Non-residential/semi-residential three-month fellowship open to Ghanaians and those based in Ghana
- Open to writers, artists, and other cultural practitioners
- Fellows will produce a piece of work that makes significant and substantial use of the Munro Collection
- Fellows will present the results of their Fellowship at a public event at LOATAD (e.g. a performance, reading, workshop etc.)
- Fellowships must be completed over the course of one calendar year
The Fellow is selected by LOATAD through a process of invitation and/or nomination by our network.
Fellows receive access to the library and its extensive collection, space to work, support with developing their project, access to LOATAD’s network of creative organisations and individuals, and a stipend.
Kwame Boafo is the inaugural Professor Ian H. Munro Fellow. Click here to find out more about him.
Watch Kwame’s Fellowship talk, Ritual As Speculative Portal, delivered at LOATAD and streamed online on Saturday, 30 November, 2024, below:
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