The Kenyan author of the instant classic “How to Write About Africa” and founding editor of Kwani will be doing a series of readings in the U.S. the next two weeks, please catch him if you can:
Africa is too large and diverse for generalisations. It has 54 nations, 5 time zones, at least 7 climates, more than 800 million people, and, according to the latest diligent research, maybe 14 million proverbs. This series of talks and readings seeks to present some fresh voices from all corners of Africa, in all their differences. All events are free and open to the public.
SOUTHERN SWING
Wednesday, February 15th
College Park, MD – University of Maryland
David C. Driskell Center, 5.30 pm
Kwame Dawes and Binyavanga Wainaina
Thursday, February 16th
Fairfax, VA – George Mason University
Center for the Arts, Grand Tier, 6.30 pm
Kwame Dawes and Helon Habila
Friday, February 17th
Charlottesville, VA – University of Virginia
Harrison Institute Auditorium, 4.00 pm
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Kwame Dawes and Helon Habila
NORTHERN SWING
Tuesday, February 21st
New York, NY – Mercantile Library of New York
17 East 47th Street, 6.30 pm
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Helon Habila and Binyavanga Wainaina
Thursday, February 23rd
New York, NY – New York University
19 University Place, 7.00 pm
Adekeye Adebajo, Philip Alcabes, Daniel Bergner, John Ryle and Binyavanga Wainaina
Tuesday, February 28th
Cambridge, MA – Harvard University
W.E.B. DuBois Institute, 7.00 pm
Brent Hayes Edwards, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts and Binyavanga Wainaina
AOB: The New York Times FINALLY picks up the Githongo /Anglo-leasing story…long after the Kenyan blogosphere has been all over it.
thx! will check him out when he hits nyc. he was also featured on a recent national geographic about nairobi. there are some great interview excerpts here. (http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0509/feature2/multimedia2.html)
Ory you may be interested in this or know someone who is – it is a US Fellowship for lawyers in Human Rights
http://www.wlppfp.org
Oh Gawwwwwwwwwwd – can’t these f*cking fellowships be abolished altogether?
They are a sheer waste of money, and only serve to support incompetents and sycophants from the Global South abroad, who would otherwise never find their way into a good university. And then they come back home and call themselves Kiraitu Murungi. Example abound in Kenya – abound I say.
I am SOOOOO fed up with this noxious offspring of the affirmative action mindset. They should use their superfluous money to build and support institutions in the home countries, and not to paste prestigious grades and titles on empty heads and pot-bellies.
Osas
I just went to see him at College Park yesterday…he’s fabulous, as was Kwame Dawes…well worth checking out
The View from Africa Tour
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Binyavanga Wainaina (& Others) On Tour
Binyavanga Wainaina, the Kenyan author of the instant classic “How to Write About Africa” and founding editor of Kwani will be doing a series of readings in the U.S. the next two weeks with several other writers.
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