Document Type
Podcast
Publication Date
9-11-2007
Publisher
Black Mountain Institute
Language
English
Disciplines
African Languages and Societies | Arts and Humanities | Inequality and Stratification | Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America | Modern Literature | Political Science | Politics and Social Change | Race and Ethnicity | Race, Ethnicity and post-Colonial Studies
Abstract
Preeminent Nigerian novelists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chris Abani, exiled writer Chenjerai Hove of Zimbabwe, and Zambian memoirist Alexandra Fuller join Nobel Laureate and BMI Senior Fellow Wole Soyinka and explore the myriad challenges facing Africa today: Why do despots continue to gain and remain in power? Has the legacy of colonialism permanently impaired pan-African unity? To what extent are Africans themselves responsible for solving the continent's seemingly intractable problems? And how should Western nations be held accountable for the war, famine, and genocide that continue to rage?
Repository Citation
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi; Abani, Chris; Hove, Chenjerai; Fuller, Alexandra; and Soyinka, Wole, "From apartheid to Darfur: Africa's struggle against disdain" (2007). Lectures/Events (BMI). Paper 8.
http://digitalcommons.library.unlv.edu/blackmountain_lectures_events/8
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Introduction: Carol C. Harter, Black Mountain Institute
Doc Rando Hall, UNLV
Audio file size: 65.4 megabytes