THE CENTER FOR “RACE,” CULTURE, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
PRESENTS THE SPRING 2023
DISTINGUISHED AFRICAN SCHOLARS AND WRITERS SERIES
"We Too Are Creative: The Validity of the African Imagination"
Featuring Chika Unigwe, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Georgia College & State University
There is an insistence to read fiction by African writers as biographical or anthropological. Whereas western writers may be imaginative, African writers are expected to only document/regurgitate their lives. This talk is an appeal to look beyond the biographical and anthropological while teaching/reading African literature. If literature from Africa teaches lessons, those lessons are human lessons, and they illuminate the truth about our world.
Dr. Unigwe is a Nigerian-born author of short fiction and six novels, including her latest work, TheMiddle Daughter(2023). She was nominated for the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing and the winner of the 2012 Nigeria Prize for Literature for her novel OnBlackSisters' Street.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 2023, 2:40-4:05 P.M.
Guthart Cultural Center Theater, 1st Floor, Axinn Library, South Campus
For more information, please call 516-463-6585 or email RaceCultureSocialJustice@hofstra.edu.
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Photo credit: S. Bassouls