An Evening with M. G. Vassanji – Writing Africa – March 23
“AND HOME WAS KARIAKOO: WRITING AFRICA” – BY M. G. VASSANJI
Followed by on-stage interview with Peter Midgley
A reception and book signing will follow the lecture. All are welcome to attend this FREE event.
No RSVP required.
Date: Monday, March 23, 2015
Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Venue: # 9-323 (Kule theatre), 3rd floor, Robbins Health Learning Centre,
Address: 10910-104 Avenue NW, Edmonton, AB T5J 4S2 at Grant MacEwan University, City Centre Campus
Invite friends/colleagues via this link: https://www.facebook.com/events/374609606044976
For further information, please contact Dr. Asma Sayed: sayeda@macewan.ca.
About M.G. Vasanji
M. G. Vassanji is the author of seven novels, two collections of short stories, two travel memoirs, and a biography of Mordecai Richler. He is winner of the Giller Prize (1994, 2003) for best novel in Canada; the Governor General’s Prize (2009) for best work of nonfiction; the Harbourfront Festival Prize; the Commonwealth First Book Prize (Africa, 1990); and the Bressani Prize. He is a member of the Order of Canada.
And Home Was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa – Part travelogue, part memoir, and part history-rarely-told, is a powerful and timely portrait of a constantly evolving land. From a description of Zanzibar and its evolution to a visit to a slave-market town at Lake Tanganyika; from an encounter with a witchdoctor in an old coastal village to memories of his own childhood in the streets of Dar es Salaam and the suburbs of Nairobi, Vassanji combines brilliant prose, thoughtful and candid observation, and a lifetime of revisiting and reassessing the continent that molded him–and, as we discover when we follow the journeys that became this book, shapes him still.
Peter Midgley writes poetry, children’s books and nonfiction. By day, he works at the University of Alberta Press. He was born in Namibia, but now lives in Edmonton. He is the author of Counting Teeth: A Namibian Story, an account of his return to Namibia with his nineteen-year-old daughter, Sinead. He photographs birds; Sinead doesn’t. Peter’s award-winning children’s books have been translated into twenty-eight languages. A new collection of poetry, Unquiet Bones, will appear in September 2015.
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