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A Roundtable with the 2018 IWP Residents from Africa
Sep 19, 2018
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Pappajohn Business Building, Room S401
21 East Market Street, Iowa City, IA 52245
Join the African Studies Program for "A Roundtable with the 2018 International Writing Program Residents from Africa." This event will take place on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 from 12-2 p.m. in S401 Pappajohn.
Join featured guests for an informal discussion of literature in Africa, the lives and experience of Africa’s creative writers, and the relationship between creative writing and Africa’s current political and social condition.
Featured guests:
Chris Abani
USA/Nigeria
fiction, non-fiction writer
Amara Nicole Okolo
Nigeria
fiction, non-fiction writer
Umar Timol
Mauritius
poet, fiction writer
Salah Badis
Algeria
poet, journalist
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