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EVENTS
2012 CALLALOO CONFERENCE – “Love: Sacred &
Secular”
October 11-13, 2012
Center for African American Studies, Princeton University
“Writing
politics of identity, race and class in Nairobi
Heat”
March
2nd, 2012, 3:00 pm
LC
211 at the MacMillan Center
Yale
University
New
Haven, CT
"Trafficking
Languages and Cultures Through Translation"
International
House, University of Chicago
Thursday,
March 1, 2012, 7:00 pm
Join St.
Petersburg Review and the 57th Street Bookstore for a historic reading and
discussion of African literature: Mukoma wa Ngugi, Kadija Sesay, Kennedy
Waliaua and Jeffrey Renard Allen. Moderators: Tom Burke and Elizabeth Hodges.
The Future of
Pan-Africanism and the Pitfalls of Liberal Democracy in Africa
April, 6th 2011
UNIVERSITY OF NOUAKCHOTT
FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMAN SCIENCES
Africans and
African Americans: A Complex Beauty
Tuesday, 19 April
2011, 5:30 pm
McGowan South, Rm.
104
DePaul University,
1110 W. Belden
Ave.
Kwani? LitFest
Headlined by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the fest will reach into Africa and the
diaspora, featuring the likes of Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana), Marjorie Oludhe
(Kenya), Micere Mugo (Kenya), Yvonne Owour (Kenya), Okey Ndibe
(Nigeria), Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenya), Cornelius Eady (USA), Rebeka
Njau (Kenya), Mukoma wa Ngugi (Kenya), A Igoni Barrett (Nigeria) and Ed
Pavlic (USA).
Poetry Reading with Heather Hartley & Mukoma Wa Ngugi & Live Jazz!
Heather Hartley,
Paris editor for Tin House Literary
Magazine(www.heatherhartleyink.com)will be reading from her recent book
Knock Knock at bela dubby this Sat. the 13th from 7-9 pm along with
another accomplished writer Mukoma Wa Ngugi www.mukomawangugi.com. Also,
live music by Xela ART ROCK & SOUL JAZZ DUB
QUINTETwww.myspace.com/theuncannyxela
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Heather Hartley :: Knock Knock
www.heatherhartleyink.com
Location:
bela dubby
13321 Madison Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107
Click here for more information
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
3:00 pm
Wayne State University
Purdy/Kresge Library Auditorium
5265 Cass
Detroit, MI 48202
Lecture: Africa and Palestine
Charles H. Wright Museum
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
6:00pm Detroit, Michigan
September 28th to October 1st, 2010
Shakespeare and Company and the St. Petersburg
Review present Kenyan writers Parselelo Kantai and Mukoma Wa Ngugil
both shortlisted for the Caine
Prize in 2009. Parselelo Kantai is a writer and investigative journalist
who writes short fiction and is currently working on a novel. Mukoma Wa
Ngugi is the author of Hurling Words at Consciousness and Nairobi Heat. AT: Shakespeare & Co., 37rue de la
Bûcherie, Paris 5ème. M° St Michel. http://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/
APRIL
21ST 12:00 PM
Daniel Kunene, Ken Waliaula, and Mukoma Wa
Ngugi in Conversation:
African Studies Program
UW-Madison
206 Ingraham Hall, 1155
Observatory Drive, Madison WI
12:00pm to 1:00 pm
Ken Waliaula leads a discussion with Daniel Kunene and Mukoma Wa Ngugi
on a wide range of African issues surrounding the writing, reading and
criticism of African literature. Both will read from and talk about
their latest works, The Rock at the Corner of My Heart (Brown Turtle
Press, 2009) and Nairobi Heat (Penguin, SA 2009) respectively.
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BBC
World Service - The Strand
If you had to recommend three books or poems that would deepen a
visitor's understanding of your country and culture, what would they be?
BBC WORLD SERVICE
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p008r4m9
Wednesday 28th July 2010
This week, a new deal between a top literary agent and the
online retailer Amazon seemed to confirm that the rise of e-publishing is now
unstoppable. But how will the ebook change the way we read and write? We find
out from two authors, American zombie writer, Scott Nicholson and Kenyan poet,
Mukoma Wa Ngugi.
WCPN 90.3
Around Noon
Mukoma wa Ngugi, Greg
Reese and Mike Farley Band
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Dee Perry welcomes Kenyan
author and CWRU instructor Mũkoma wa Ngũgĩ, to discuss his acclaimed novel Nairobi
Heat. Plus, we say goodbye and good luck to the outgoing executive director
of the East Cleveland Public Library - Greg Reese. And the Mike Farley Band is
getting back together at Brothers Lounge for the 10th anniversary of their
signature album - Halfaworldaway.
Kenyan Writer Mukoma wa Ngugi Enters New Terrain with His First
Novel, Nairobi Heat
Until recently, Kenyan writer Mukoma wa Ngugi was best known as a
poet and as a commentator on African politics. But with the publication
of his first novel, Nairobi Heat (Penguin Books), Mukoma, a SAGES fellow at Case Western
Reserve University, has entered very different literary terrain.
Nairobi Heat is a detective story by an author hoping to
bridge the gap between "serious" literature and popular fiction. Mukoma
wanted to write a novel that was "fun to read," a book that made readers
feel they were "on an exciting journey." But he also wanted to explore
themes of race and identity, conscience and justice. Read More...
BBC
World Service - The Strand Interview on Nairobi Heat hosted by Harriet
Gilbertt
March 6th, 2010
What does it mean to be an African living
in America? Mukoma wa Ngugi, who writes for BBC Focus on
Africa magazine, tells us about his own ...
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p003lqzh/Outlook_15_07_2009/
Kenyan
opposition leader Raila Odinga calls for a general strike and boycott
of some of Kenya’s largest companies to continue his protest against
last month’s presidential election. More than 600 people have been
killed so far, hundreds of thousands displaced. We go to Nairobi to
speak with Maina Kiai, the Chair of the Kenyan National Human Rights
Commission, and we speak with Mukoma wa Ngugi, a Kenyan writer and
activist in the U.S
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Kenyan Opposition to End Demonstrations, Launch
Economic Boycott
