Moving the Center:
African Literature in African Languages

Two generations of African writers—Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, an elder statesman from Kenya, and Richard Ali A Mutu, a young novelist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo—are featured together on the ALOUD stage. They read and discuss the politics of writing in African languages. Thiong’o and Mutu (via Skype) are joined by David Shook, the founding editor of Phoneme Media and publisher of Mutu’s debut novel, Mr. Fix-It, the first novel written in Lingala to be translated into English.

Co-presented with Phoneme Media