Tag: literature
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LOATAD is 8!
The Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora (LOATAD) is eight years old today! During that time, we’ve hosted over 100 writers-in-residence, run hundreds of events, created or co-created three school and community libraries, delivered hundreds of lessons to thousands of schoolchildren, and donated thousands of culturally relevant books to individuals and communities. And that’s…
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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,…
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Talk: On the Liberating Power of Literature
“For most of my life, I’d been reading outside myself, conditioned by the (education) system and society, in general, to read only books and authors that were deemed “classics” or part of “the canon.” When I began to read more narrowly, my perspective began to change, as did my understanding of language and the way…
Sylvia Arthur 