African Salon Newsletter

AFRICA SALON Rethinking the narrative through arts and culture + conversation + interaction AFRICA SALON proudly presents a very special edition of our newsletter. Read on for details about a media talk, a high-profile literary festival, and–finally–the AFRICA SALON 2016 dates. Photojournalist/activist Boniface Mwangi, fashion designer Farai Simoyi, and former Minister of Tourism Jamel Gamra from Africa Week 2015, presented by the Yale African Students Association Want more photos, videos + even more AFRICA SALON? Check out our website. AFRICA SALON ALUMNI Since its co-founder Bibi Bakare-Yusuf participated in two panels at AFRICA SALON 2015, progressive Nigerian publishing house Cassava Republic Press has launched several new books, including the forthcoming novel The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma, which was shortlisted for multiple awards, including the 2015 Man Booker Prize, and won the inaugural Financial Times Emerging Voices Award. Cassava Republic author and AFRICA SALONalumna Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani was featured in a BBC Radio 4 documentary called "Suffering and Smiling, Writing a New Nigeria." Cassava Republic also announced that the publisher will have its UK launch in April 2016. Follow all the latest on Cassava Republic Press here. AKISA OMULEPU AT YALE COUNCIL ON AFRICAN STUDIES  Thursday, 12.3 Luce Hall 103 34 Hillhouse Avenue New Haven, CT 12:30pm Kenyan Yale World Fellow Akisa Omulepu will give a lecture on "Media as Transformation in Africa" as part of the Council on African Studies Brown Bag Series. Omulepu manages the music and art collective Just A Band and other noteworthy creatives.  AFRICA SALON PRESENTS: CONTINENTS IN CONVERSATION Saturday, 1.23 Luce Hall Common Room 34 Hillhouse Avenue New Haven, CT 10am–3pm Continents in Conversation is a literary festival and complement to AFRICA SALON 2016, organized by AFRICA SALON Literary Content Curator Sarah Derbew '18. The one-day event features three intimate, interactive sessions with American playwright Kia Corthron, Sierra Leonean and Scottish novelist Aminatta Forna, Malawian poet Jack Mapanje, Ethiopian-American novelist and screenwriter Maaza Mengiste, Nigerian novelist and editor Okey Ndibe, Nigerian novelist Chigozie Obioma, South African journalist, film director, and novelist Margie Orford, Nigerian-Belgian novelist Chika Unigwe, and Rwandan storyteller Clemantine Wamariya '14. Register for the festival here. SAVE THE DATE: AFRICA SALON 2016 Saturday, 4.2–Sunday, 4.3 Yale University New Haven, CT   AFRICA SALON is officially back! Save the date for Yale's two-day contemporary African arts and culture festival, coming to campus and New Haven on April 2nd and 3rd, 2016. Lineup, ticket information, and more exciting details to come.

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