The Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice
DISTINGUISHED AFRICAN SCHOLARS AND WRITERS SERIES
featuring
Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University
Somewhere Between African and African American – Journeying Into My Blackness
Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s central argument is that while interpersonal, political, and cultural solidarity has always been historically present, the relationship between Africans and African Americans is also mediated by each seeing the other through the lens of double consciousness. He makes the argument for a larger global Blackness consciousness.
About the Author
Mukoma Wa Ngugi is the author of The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership; the novels Mrs. Shaw, Black Star Nairobi, Nairobi Heat, and Unbury Our Dead With Song (a story about competing Tizita musicians); and two books of poetry, Logotherapy and Hurling Words at Consciousness. His book Somewhere Between Black and African: A Biography of My Skin is forthcoming.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
2:40-4:05 p.m.
Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater
Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
This event is free and open to the public.