Kwani? Out & About
Kwani? Out & About
Africa Utopia’s East African Literary All Stars
Where: Weston Roof Pavilion, Level 6, Green side, Royal Festival Hall
When: 2.30 pm 15th July 2017
From the Arabian sea to Khartoum, Nairobi and Hargesya, the 'Greater Horn of Africa' is a meeting place of cultures that has produced some of the most exciting literary talents in recent times. In conversation, author Nadifa Mohamed (The Orchard of Lost Souls, Black Mamba Boy) and Billy Kahora (Managing Editor of Kwani Trust) will illustrate ideas, practices and trends making the region a literary powerhouse.
Africa and the World: Literature, Politics, and Global Geographies
Where: Yale University, New Haven
When: June 14th - June 17th 2017
Kwani’s Managing Editor Billy Kahora will chair a panel on ‘The Past and Future in East African Literature’ at this year’s ALA conference seeking to engage with and interrogate recent shifts in critical and theoretical frameworks from regional, national, and “postcolonial” models towards “world literature” as a framework for understanding the literatures of the Global South. How useful is the category of world literature in our ongoing contestation of Eurocentrism in the interpretation of African literatures and cultures? What possibilities are offered by African literatures and cultures for (re)imagining the world, including the “world” posited by recent theorizations?
Ayobami Adebayo in Conversation: A Reading of Stay with Me
Where: Spike Island, Bristol
When: Friday 9 June 6.30-8pm
On Friday the 9th of June at 6.30pm, Ayobami Adebayo will be reading from and in conversation about her debut novel Stay with Me as part of Spike Island’s Novel Writers series. Born in lagos in 1988, Ayobami has an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia and has had her fiction appear in The Weaverbird Collection, Lawino Magazine and East Jamine Review.
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