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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 [homepage]
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts contributing editor, Transition Magazine [homepage]
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.

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The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
Peter Godwin
00:27:00
Author and journalist Peter Godwin was born and raised in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia). In this talk he untangles the country's complex and tragic history, and discusses his book The Fear, which follows the arc of President Mugabe's brutal career.
US Supreme Court and Race
Randall Kennedy
01:07:00
Two Harvard legal scholars discuss the complex and often misunderstood history of how decisions by the United States Supreme Court have affected the legal status of racial minorities in America, and ask if the Supreme Court has been a friend or a foe to African Americans.
The Tenth Parallel: The Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
Eliza Griswold
00:39:29
Award-winning investigative journalist Eliza Griswold discusses one of the richest, though often contentious, ideological battlegrounds in current world culture--the meeting of Christianity and Islam across Africa and Asia--as described in her book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault
RFK in the Land of Apartheid
Margaret Marshall
01:01:00
A panel discusses Larry Shore's documentary on Robert Kennedy's historic 1966 trip to South Africa, RFK in the Land of Apartheid.
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.
Congressman Barney Frank on "Ruined"
Barney Frank
00:30:22
In conjunction with the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for drama, Lynn Nottage’s Ruined, Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank, Democrat from the 4th District, speaks about the legislative efforts being taken to eliminate the sale of conflict m
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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