Hofstra University
Spring 2023 Distinguished African Scholars and Writers Series: “We Too Are Creative: The Validity of the African Imagination”
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.
Presented by the Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice.
Wednesday, April 12, 2:40 p.m. Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library, First Floor, South Campus
Admission is FREE and open to the public. Advancer egistration is required. More info and to RSVP visit http://tiny.cc/jby5vz.