On November 1st at the Department of English Creative Writing Fund’s African Writer’s Symposium Dinaw Mengestu read an excerpt from his acclaimed novel The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears. After reading sections there was a brief interview with Professor Paula Morris, in which they discussed the genesis of the book, Mengestu’s previous non-fiction work, [...]
Entries from December 2008
December 10, 2008
African Writers Symposium Review: Panel Discussion
The topics discussed at the end-of-symposium forum grew out of two issues: the problem of finding a publication venue for African literature, and the difficulty of traversing the language barrier to English. Interestingly, the two topics were more related than they appeared at first. As Niyi Osundare put it, “Where does one begin to eat [...]
