AFRICAN LITERATURE
JUNE 12
~ ~ Brian Chikwava | Carole Enahoro | NGUGI wa Thiong’o
Brian Chikwava
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~ Ngugı wa Thiong’o
Carole Enahoro
Luminato’s celebration of East/West continues – join us for an evening with three outstanding authors. In the fifty years since the publication of Chinua Achebe’s seminal Things Fall Apart, many African writers have won worldwide acclaim – and Luminato is proud to host three of today’s most notable examples. Reading from Dreams in a Time of War, 2009 Booker Prize ~ ~ nominee Ngugı wa Thiong’o shares memories of the Kenya of his childhood. Nigerian politics and disaster capitalism are among the targets of Carole Enahoro’s satiric debut novel Doing Dangerously Well, while in Harare North, Brian Chikwava, winner of the 2004 Caine Prize, looks at the precarious lives of Zimbabwean refugees in London.
Hosted by Toronto's Poet Laureate, Dionne Brand, whose Legacy Project of verses of Canadian poetry will soon be found on Toronto sidewalks.
Spend your Saturday exploring this Festival thread! Join us at Global Music: Rock the Casbah & An African Prom at Queen's Park for a day of free music following this literary event.
“In his crowded career and his eventful ~ ~ life, Ngugı has enacted, for all to see, the paradigmatic trials and quandries of a contemporary African writer caught in sometimes implacable political, social, racial and linguistic currents.” - The New Yorker Book sales by: Pages – Beyond Bricks and Mortar
Presenting Partner:
JUNE location tickets $15 Isabel Bader Fr 11 Sa 12 Su 13 Mo 14 Tu 15 We 16 Th 17 Fr 18 Sa 19 Su 20 2:00 PM
Duration: 90 minutes including Q&A, no intermission. Followed by a 30-minute book signing.
Theatre 93 Charles St. W.
Please note that this event is general admission. For tickets, call Ticketmaster at 416 872 1111 or visit luminato.com.
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