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Tour of Duty: How to Write About Africa
February 28, 2006
Michael Vazquez executive editor, Transition Magazine
Brent Edwards professor, english, Rutgers University
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts contributing editor, Transition Magazine
Binyavanga Wainaina visiting writer in residence, Union College

Michael Vazquez of Transition Magazine hosts an evening with the next generation of African and African American writers.

Cosponsored by Transition Magazine, Granta and the Virginia Quarterly Review.

Literature & Philosophy | People & Places
African
WGBH
Harvard Du Bois Institute
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates
William Grant
00:50:50
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. executive producer William R. Grant and producer Stephen Ives discuss the series with Dr. David Altshuler, a clinical endocrinologist and human geneticist from the Broad Institute.
Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the 21st Century
James Orbinski
00:59:29
Physician and humanitarian James Orbinski discusses his new book, An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century.
Paul Goodnight: Memorial for the Middle Passage
Paul Goodnight
00:26:54
African cultural artist Paul Goodnight talks about the power of art and its ability to fight inhumanity, change perceptions, and heal old wounds. This is what a Boston monument memorializing the slave trade's "Middle Passage" could do for the world.
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Charles Burnett
00:46:24
The creators of the 2003 documentary Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property discuss their film, which analyzes Nat Turner's slave rebellion of 1831 and its aftermath in American memory.
Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture
Richard Powell
00:54:53
Dr. Richard J. Powell discusses his new book, Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture. He examines the distinctive nature of modern and contemporary portraits of people of African descent.
Never Again, Again, Again...
Lane Montgomery
00:37:29
Lane Montgomery discusses her photographic essay with text on the six major genocides of the 20th and 21st centuries: Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda and Darfur.
Image of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism
Author: Brent Hayes Edwards
Publisher: Harvard University Press (2003)
Binding: Paperback, 408 pages
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