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The 6th International African Women Writers Symposium wraps up today with a Script Writing + Photography Workshop by #BongiNdaba and #BonileBam. We meet from 1pm at 8 Incubation Drive in Riversands, ext. 15 in Fourways, Midrand.
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#AWWS18 Aboulela says we need more historians, we don't know much but then you research has its own dynamics like who is funding it. We must know our history. #NadineGordimerLecture
"As parents, we have to find what our kids enjoy. Be it comics, or... Not try to impose. It's best to leave them to read what they like to read. To expose them to as many different books as possible le and see what catches their interest." #LeilaAboulela on young readers
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#AWWS18 Aboulela says most of the Sudanese culture is also influenced by what's happening in the Gulf. #NadineGordimerLecture
"Growing up in Sudan I read a lot of books in Arabic. We were also limited by the availability of books. I read trashy books too. I read them all. We also had translations of Russian classics translated by Russians."#LeilaAboulela
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#AWWS18 Aboulela says we need more writers writing, everybody can speak in their voice and nowadays you have young people can write stories. #NadineGordimerLecture
"As writers we should not be writing for the white gaze. We should be sincere. Even when the publishers are white, the agents are white. This is changing... But then what is white taste? " #LeilaAboulela
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"For me, Islam is a private thing. It's a faith, about worship, about being sincere. This thing of now it being an identity. It is problematic. Sometimes I am not very comfortable with this. Because it is taking us away from the core."
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"What is the job of a writer? To do art for art's sake? Is there a politicAl space?" #ZukiswaWanner
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#AWWS18 Aboulela says she would have not been a writer if she stayed in Sudan, she lives in Britain now and to write you must have a sense of tension, I was complacent but look I'm not a Professor in Khartoum. #NadineGordimerLecture
"You can't be complacent as a writer. You are writing against... And that didn't come to me until I moved to Scotland. I was complacent back in Sudan." #LeilaAboulela
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#AWWS18 Aboulela : Nadine said recognize yourself in others, was able to see views from opposing sides and possessed deep understanding of us as humans. She didn't boast and said your whole life you write one book. #NadineGordimerLecture
#NadineGordimerLecture Aboulela says she think terms like xenophobia and islamophobia are like masks and fear is fake and manufactured, I always wonder who fears whom? To me it's arrogance and superiority. #AWWS18
"Even after an apology is given, the burden is on the hurt to heal and to forgive. But for us, authors, there is a venue. We can push our Hurst into our stories, take our revenge..." reflects #LeilaAboulela with a smile.
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Leila Aboulela quotes Maya Angelou "people were never forget how you make them feel", as she speaks about her encounters with other writers #AWWS18 #LeilaAboulelaInSA
Society is more forgiving of men rather than women, just because of their standing in society. Leila Aboulela #AWWS18 #LeilaAboulelaInSA
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