http://podcast.lannan.org/2011/10/01/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-with-binyavanga-wainaina-conversation-28-september-2011-video/ Lannan Foundation is a family foundation dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity and creativity through projects which support exceptional contemporary artists and writers, as well as inspired Native activists in rural indigenous communities. Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:03:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://podcast.lannan.org/2011/10/01/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-with-binyavanga-wainaina-conversation-28-september-2011-video/comment-page-1/#comment-234854 seiff s kibwana Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:41:40 +0000 http://podcast.lannan.org/?p=1551#comment-234854 hi! watching this video has contributed to my 'hunger spirit' to read and listen more about African literature in general. as a Tanzania, Nigeria and Kenya literature has been always in my mind. Thanks a lot. its an inspiring work.

]]> http://podcast.lannan.org/2011/10/01/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-with-binyavanga-wainaina-conversation-28-september-2011-video/comment-page-1/#comment-233759 sandy Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:33:06 +0000 http://podcast.lannan.org/?p=1551#comment-233759 An interesting conversation between the two friends, both "post post colonial writers" from Nigeria and Kenya, though Chimamanda's been included in the "Forty under Forty in America" by the New Yorker. Her prose is elegant, she's a lovely writer, his is somewhat robust, and I think he's a bit full of himself, frankly, if his recent comments in the Guardian and elsewhere are anything to go by.
Their take on writing about America was more tongue-in-cheek, one hopes, because there are indeed people who "found their voice" when they came to America, some from the very places these two hail from. She has already included America in many of her stories.
And yes, there are untold numbers who were glad to leave other notions of "human rights" behind them when they came to these shores. In fact, I, for one, have felt exactly that to a large degree. I come from a minority (meaning not black) community in Binyawanga's homeland, and honest, free communication was not possible for those very reasons that he seems to mock. Things apparently have changed some for the better, I take it.
Thank you for the podcast, enjoyed it.

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