COM LIT LECTURE SERIES - Mukoma Wa Ngugi "Blackness, Languages, resistance and Identity"

Date
Nov 7, 2024, 5:00 pm7:00 pm
Location
010 East Pyne

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Event Description

Mukoma Wa Ngugi is Professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University and author of Unbury Our Dead with SongThe Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity and OwnershipBlack Star Nairobi Nairobi Heatand  two books of poetry, Logotherapy and  Hurling Words at Consciousness. He is the co-founder of the Safal Kiswahili Prize for African literature. n 2013, New African magazine named him one of the 100 most Influential Africans. 

Sponsor
Co-Sponsored by the Department of African American Studies, the Program in African Studies and the Department of English