Warscapes Charles Cantalupo

African Literature...Says Who? The Last 50 Years with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Kenyan born and internationally acclaimed, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is the author of more major works of fiction, nonfiction, and drama than any African writer. His groundbreaking first novel Weep Not, Child recently celebrated fifty years, and he has since published over thirty works in English and his native language, Gikuyu. Undaunted for half a century, he has incisively and eloquently challenged an African status quo of political misrule and has been imprisoned for criticizing an authoritarian Kenyan regime. A peer of Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, Ngugi was among the first to provocatively ask what constitutes an African literature, a question that haunts literary landscapes today. Harkening back to the epic dawn of African independence, the voice of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has been a constant African presence.

The Warscapes Public Lecture Series and New School's Humanities Action Lab is honored to welcome Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o for an intimate conversation with poet, translator, and scholar Charles Cantalupo. April 24th, 6.00-7.30pm, The New School University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, UL 105.

Admission is free but please do register here for the event. 

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