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In Communion With Madame Jobe
My professional highlight of 2023 was spending five weeks in The Gambia travelling along the Atlantic coast interviewing women aged over 60 about their lives. This fieldwork was part of my research for my National Geographic Society-supported project, A Women’s Oral History of West Africa. Of the 27 elders I had the privilege to commune… Read more
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2023 Brittle Paper Literary Person of the Year
From Brittle Paper: Sylvia Arthur is the 2023 Brittle Paper African Literary Person of the Year for her outstanding work as the founder of the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (@loatad_org) in Accra, Ghana. She is the 9th honoree of the award. @NnediOkorafor was the first to receive the award in 2015 and since then it… Read more
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Kwame Nkrumah Festival talk
Left Feminist Biographies From the Kwame Nkrumah Festival at the University of Ghana, 2021 Following the screening of biographical documentaries on Lorraine Hansberry and Ama Ata Aidoo, this panel brought together several accomplished feminist biographers to discuss lessons that can be drawn from the lives and experiences of revolutionary African women: Claudia Jones, Eslanda Robeson,… Read more
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The necessity of curiosity
I recently had the pleasure of giving a presentation and workshop on my National Geographic Society project to a group of schoolchildren aged between 13 and 16. There were, perhaps, 60 students in total, three groups in three different parts of the world: one in Europe, one in the Caribbean, and one in Africa, Ghana,… Read more
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News: Forbes Africa Feature
I’m happy to be featured in the February/March 2023 issue of Forbes Africa magazine in an article titled, “Re-telling The African Story”: “We live in the Age of Story. Every brand, every political manifesto, is built on narrative architecture. Now Africa is reclaiming its own stories, and harnessing generations of storytelling craft to reconfigure the… Read more
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