This week, Kinna Likimani, book blogger and African Literature enthusiast/'fanatic' is hosting Ghanaian Literature Week.
An event which is gradually becoming an annual affair seeks to celebrate mainly Ghanaian Literature.
Kinna describes the rules for the Ghanaian Literature week on her blog kinnareads thus:
"read a literary work by a writer who is from or lives in Ghana, read a book about Ghana, discuss any issue related to reading and books in Ghana."
Tomorrow, November 17, on Twitter, Ghanaian literature/book lovers will chat with the Ghanaian (but UK resident) writer and poet Nii Ayikwei Parkes at 8pm. The hashtag for tracking the conversation is #GhanaLit.
I am re-reading Ayi Kwei Armah's The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born for the week. Maybe, quite fortuitously, the Writers Project of Ghana's monthly Book Discussion Club is reading Armah's Fragments for the month. The venue of the discussion is the American Corner of the Legon Centre for International Affair and Diplomacy (LECIAD) at the University of Ghana. The time is 5 P.M. to 6 P.M. You can email any enquiries to info@writersprojectghana.com or visit their webpage.
Let's make the Ghanaian Literature Week successful. Grab a book! There are many Ghanaian authors.
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4 comments:
I have to be at Ho for a workshop and return on 21st. I'd pass through but have told Martin to find a replacement.
I'll be participating in the writer chatter on twitter.
Thank you so much for the support. Happy reading!
I read Armahs' Two Thousand Seasons for the week and while I liked it I had issues with it as well. I've heard some of his others are less preachy and definitely look forward to reading them at some point. I hope you share some of your thoughts on The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born. I've heard so many great things about it!
Amy, I think if you take the context,together with the purpose of the work, it would not appear to you as you perceive it now. I would say it is a polemic. To say the least, it is philosophical.
Kinna, it was such a success
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