With Nuruddin Farah,
Abdourahman Waberi, and Chenjerai Hove
Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 3pm
Co-presented with the PEN World Voices Festival
In May,
FIAF launches World
Nomads, a series that examines the cross-cultural
exchange of ideas, artistic expression, and style. This transcultural
journey begins in contemporary Africa bringing artists together
for engaging programs considering Africa's cultural impact
on France and the rest of the world.
In collaboration with the PEN World Voices Festival, FIAF
presents three of Africa’s greatest literary talents—Nuruddin
Farah, Abdourahman Waberi, and Chenjerai Hove—in conversation
with Violaine Huisman. Forced into exile for their activism,
the authors have turned the tongue of their former colonial
oppressors into weapons of pacifism. These French and English-speaking
writers discuss their practice of literature, their political
mission, and the uniting power of language in a conflict-ridden
continent.
