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Date limite de soumission : 1er février 2020 :French President Emmanuel Macron announced on 3rd July 2018 in Lagos that a Special Season would be organized in France, from June to December 2020, to mark a renewed partnership with Africa, a “varied, strong and diverse continent that will play a part in our shared future”. The peer-reviewed journal of Aix-Marseille Université research centre on Anglophone Studies (LERMA), E-rea, has decided to seize the opportunity of Africa 2020 to dedicate a special issue to contemporary artistic, digital, and political creation in English-speaking African countries. Heeding Kenyan political analyst Nanjala Nyabola’s advice to eschew the too reductive ‘Africa rising’ and ‘Africa failing’ narratives in favour of ‘Africa being’ stories, this special issue wishes to focus on “stories reflecting the ambivalence, complexity, challenges and opportunities of African societ[ies] in an increasingly connected world”.Thematics : Artistic CreationAfrican Arts Programmes: Where and How can African artists develop their skills on the African continent?Exhibiting African Arts: How is contemporary artistic creation curated and showcased on the African continent?Exporting African Arts: How do English-speaking African artists export their work internationally, within diasporic circuits and beyond?Leapfrogging and the future: What is the reality of digital creation on the continent in 2020?African cyber activism: What participatory roles are played by artists and digital creation in contemporary politics in English-speaking African countries?African societies in the age of hashtags: How are cultural resistance and identity politics mobilized in cyberspace?(Re)constituting African heritage: How do African governments, historians and civil societies create the legal and physical conditions for its preservation and postcolonial restoration?Rethinking Africa from within: What and who are the contemporary African political and philosophical theories and theorists?Africas in relation: How do African countries deal with each other and with non-African countries in a creative way? En savoir plus :https://calenda.org/714485