Uganda has thrown ICJ’s Judge Sebutinde, who voted against emergency measures requested by South Africa against Israel over its war on Gaza, under the bus. The timing was awful for President Yoweri Museveni who just hosted the Non-Aligned Movement [and G77+ China] and taken over as its chair two years. NAM issued a pro-Palestinian communique, and Museveni had positioned himself as a major leader of the global South and non-western world order. Sebutinde is not at ICJ as Uganda’s envoy, and she’s right to call it as her heart and mind tells her, but as the saying goes, everything is politics
Teju Cole er en meget omtalt og smukt skrivende nigeriansk-amerikansk forfatter. ‘Åben by’, 2014 findes på dansk. Han har just udgivet sit tredje skønlitterære værk, ‘Tremor’. Jeg har skrevet om ham på https://t.co/2yAu54uQzS https://t.co/PFPncqDdvA
Abdulrazak Gurnah og Wole Soyinka på Louisiana Literature | Globalnyt. Det er den største litterære sensation i kvindes minde! Grib chancen… https://t.co/jhXi4bo9VM
Jeg har skrevet om den unge senegalesiske forfatter, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, som skriver kontroversielle og lidt indviklede romaner. Han vandt Goncourt-prisen og hans nyeste roman udkommer lige om lidt på dansk https://t.co/kq3H9lD88w
I Weekendavisens store tillæg om litteratur i Afrika har jeg skrevet en præsentation af utallige levende og døde afrikanske forfattere - mange af dem nemt tilgængelige på diverse sprog, andre man skal grave dybt for at finde frem til.
For Black and African writers and creators who feel trapped by the white gaze, this is for you.
Watch the iconic Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembéne brilliantly rebuff a question about how his films were received in Europe.
So ZEC was open again today , and we took advantage and once again pushed the @ProjectVote263 agenda. Due to short hours of business we only managed 11 people. They will contribute significantly to the 6Million agenda. @sarahcronje@daddyhope@CCCZimbabwe@joseph_kalimbwe
Stjerneforfatteren Abdulrazak Gurnah mener ikke Afrika fandtes i 1914. Hør ham begrunde det i Skønlitteratur på DR P 1, hvor Nanna Mogensen og jeg prøver at få styr på hans store forfatterskab https://t.co/qwsD0N7LLz