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Moving the Center: African Literature in African Languages
Moving the Center: African Literature in African Languages
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Length:
75 minutes
Released:
Jul 31, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Two generations of African writers—Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, an elder statesman from Kenya, and Richard Ali A Mutu, a young novelist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo—discuss the politics of writing in African languages, the vibrancy of the continent’s cultural output, and exciting new trends in East, West, and Central African writing. Thiong’o and Mutu will be joined for a rare look at groundbreaking indigenous voices by David Shook, the founding editor of Phoneme Media and publisher of Mutu’s debut novel, Mr. Fix-It, the first novel written in Lingala to be translated into English.
Released:
Jul 31, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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