CENTER FOR "RACE," CULTURE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
SPRING 2022 DISTINGUISHED AFRICAN SCHOLARS AND WRITERS SERIES
Featuring Dr. Imali J. Abala
"Herstory: Dreams, Voice, and the Paradox of Gender"
Dr. Abala, author and editor-in-chief of the Kenya Studies Review, is a professor of English at Ohio Dominican University. In this talk she will reflect on the ensuing challenges women face in society.
Contextualizing her talk within the mores of the Logooli culture, she weaves together multiple stories of women to illustrate how gender-constructed norms contribute to their marginalization, disempowerment and, consequently, denying them their individuality and voice, fulfillment of their dreams and humanity.
Dr. Abala's books include The Dreamer (nominated for the 2017 Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature), Drum Bits of Terror, A Fallen Citadel and Other Poems, The Dilemma of Jahenda the Teenage Mother, The Disinherited, and Move on, Trufosa
Monday, April 25, 2022, 2:40-4:05 p.m., Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
For more information, call 516-463-6585 or email RaceCultureSocialJustice@hofstra.edu.
