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Museum of the African Diaspora

September 20 - September 20, 2012

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685 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94105
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NoViolet Bulawayo will be reading and discussing, among other works, a piece entitled “In America” which is inspired by the Zimbabwean, and by extension, African, and larger diaspora experience in the US. Themes will include immigration, displacement, exile, identity, assimilation, and alienation, and the American Dream. We are essentially living in an increastingly globalized age and space, where the “homeland” at least for a significant number of people, is no longer a practical site because of compelling pull/push factors. Ms. Bulawayo is interested in what it means to give it up and forge an existence outside of it, i.e. “In America.” NoViolet Bulawayo will be in conversation with Sarah Ladipo Manyika. Zimbabwean-born NoViolet Bulawayo is a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her stories have won the 2011 Caine Prize for African writing and shortlisted for the J.M. Coetzee-judged 2009 SA PEN/Studzinski Award. Her debut novel, We Need New Names is forthcoming from Little, Brown in the summer of 2013. Sarah Ladipo Manyika was raised in Nigeria and has lived in Kenya, France, and England. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and currently teaches literature at San Francisco State University. Her writing includes published essays, academic papers, book reviews and short stories. Sarah's first novel, In Dependence, is published by Legend Press (2008).