The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library, hosts a special online conversation September 30 with Nigerian author, playwright, poet, and political activist, Wole Soyinka.
Soyinka, who became the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, will be in conversation with novelist and essayist Sarah Ladipo Manyika, host of MoAD's online series Conversations Across the Diaspora, launched in April 2020 to bring audiences at home exciting, interactive conversations from across the worldwide African diaspora. Past guests have included Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; global entrepreneur and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa; award-winning playwright and actor Anna Deavere Smith; poet and scholar Claudia Rankine; Senator Cory Booker; and beloved actor and singer Tatyana Ali.
The September 30 conversation with Soyinka will be followed in October with a special edition of MoAD's online African Book Club to discuss Soyinka's new work of fiction Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, available to the public starting at the end of September. Soyinka's first novel in nearly half a century, Chronicles is a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. Book club participants are asked to obtain and read the book in advance, then join host Faith Adiele online for a lively discussion.
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Soyinka, who became the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, will be in conversation with novelist and essayist Sarah Ladipo Manyika, host of MoAD's online series Conversations Across the Diaspora, launched in April 2020 to bring audiences at home exciting, interactive conversations from across the worldwide African diaspora. Past guests have included Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; global entrepreneur and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa; award-winning playwright and actor Anna Deavere Smith; poet and scholar Claudia Rankine; Senator Cory Booker; and beloved actor and singer Tatyana Ali.
The September 30 conversation with Soyinka will be followed in October with a special edition of MoAD's online African Book Club to discuss Soyinka's new work of fiction Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, available to the public starting at the end of September. Soyinka's first novel in nearly half a century, Chronicles is a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. Book club participants are asked to obtain and read the book in advance, then join host Faith Adiele online for a lively discussion.
The Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), in partnership with the San Francisco Public Library, hosts a special online conversation September 30 with Nigerian author, playwright, poet, and political activist, Wole Soyinka.
Soyinka, who became the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, will be in conversation with novelist and essayist Sarah Ladipo Manyika, host of MoAD's online series Conversations Across the Diaspora, launched in April 2020 to bring audiences at home exciting, interactive conversations from across the worldwide African diaspora. Past guests have included Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; global entrepreneur and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa; award-winning playwright and actor Anna Deavere Smith; poet and scholar Claudia Rankine; Senator Cory Booker; and beloved actor and singer Tatyana Ali.
The September 30 conversation with Soyinka will be followed in October with a special edition of MoAD's online African Book Club to discuss Soyinka's new work of fiction Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, available to the public starting at the end of September. Soyinka's first novel in nearly half a century, Chronicles is a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. Book club participants are asked to obtain and read the book in advance, then join host Faith Adiele online for a lively discussion.
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Soyinka, who became the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, will be in conversation with novelist and essayist Sarah Ladipo Manyika, host of MoAD's online series Conversations Across the Diaspora, launched in April 2020 to bring audiences at home exciting, interactive conversations from across the worldwide African diaspora. Past guests have included Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; global entrepreneur and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa; award-winning playwright and actor Anna Deavere Smith; poet and scholar Claudia Rankine; Senator Cory Booker; and beloved actor and singer Tatyana Ali.
The September 30 conversation with Soyinka will be followed in October with a special edition of MoAD's online African Book Club to discuss Soyinka's new work of fiction Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, available to the public starting at the end of September. Soyinka's first novel in nearly half a century, Chronicles is a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation. Book club participants are asked to obtain and read the book in advance, then join host Faith Adiele online for a lively discussion.
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