From apartheid to Darfur: Africa's struggle against disdain

Authors

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Author
Chris Abani, University of California, Riverside
Chenjerai Hove, Watson Institute for International Studies
Alexandra Fuller, Author
Wole Soyinka, Black Mountain Institute

Document Type

Lecture

Publication Date

9-11-2007

Publisher

Black Mountain Institute

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?

Keywords

Africa; Authors; Nigerian; Postcolonialism; World politics

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

Language

English

Comments

Introduction: Carol C. Harter, Black Mountain Institute

Doc Rando Hall, UNLV

Audio/Video File size: 421 megabytes

Additional audio file size: 65.4 megabytes

Repository Citation

Adichie, C. N., Abani, C., Hove, C., Fuller, A., Soyinka, W. (2007). From apartheid to Darfur: Africa's struggle against disdain.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/blackmountain_lectures_events/8