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Greetings Glocal Citizens! This week our Writing as Activism @ Pa Gya! 2024 continues in conversation with Liberian novelist, journalist, film critic, curator, speaker and lecturer of African Literature and Arts at Leiden University in the Netherlands, Vamba Sherif. Vamba has written several novels, including The Emperor's Son (2024), a novel about emperor Samori Touré, The Witness (2011), Bound to Secrecy (2007), The Kingdom of Sebah (2003), Land of My Fathers (1999), and the memoire Unprecedented Love (2021). He has curated several anthologies, including the bestselling Black: Afro-European literature in the Netherlands and Belgium. His work, which has been translated in many languages, deals with themes such as migration, belonging, love, the history of slavery, colonialism and the African resistance to it, and the mysteries of existence. These are all themes that Vamba brings to vivid life in our discussion. Click the and check out Vamba's Pa Gya! session (https://www.youtube.com/live/GIP5DqSjC_k?si=uV_GjrsM0mwn_wJK) centering his latest book The Emperor's Son. Where to find Vamba? On LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vamba-sherif-50767755/) On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/vamba.omarsherif/) On Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/vamba.sherif) On X (https://x.com/vambasherif) Vamba's essential Pan-African activism reading list: [The Radience of the King)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheRadianceoftheKing) by Camara Laye (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camara_Laye) and excerpt to the introduction by Toni Morrison (https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2001/08/09/on-the-radiance-of-the-king/?srsltid=AfmBOoqxwN5ZH14QIhyQGo80szFC7bLl7aF7ogRxSVSw6N6M5oh1mwJc) Other topics of interest: Who was Samori Touré (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samori_Ture)? Kolahun, Liberia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolahun_District) Liberia's First Civil War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Liberian_Civil_War) About Edward Wilmot Blyden, father of Pan-Africanism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Wilmot_Blyden#:~:text=As%20a%20writer%2C%20Blyden%20has,of%20the%20%22African%20race%22.) About the Gulf War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War) Senegalese filmmaker, Ousmane Sembène (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousmane_Semb%C3%A8ne) About Groningen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen) Why lekker (https://www.iamexpat.nl/expat-info/dutch-expat-news/why-dutch-always-lekker) is so sweet… The Comet (https://youtu.be/aQzgZTmwAPc?si=O9t7qHFyV2PeYLYa) by W.E.B Dubois

Pacôme Christian Kipré notre invité est originaire de Côte d'Ivoire. Né en Côte d'Ivoire, Pacôme Christian est un écrivain et un enseignant, cadre à la Direction des affaires scolaires de la ville de Paris, et s'occupe en particulier des élèves en grande difficulté scolaire et issus des milieux sociaux défavorisés. Cette sobre présentation pourrait vous faire penser que nous avons croisé un destin ordinaire. Mais il n'en est rien, Pacôme Christian n'est pas comme vous et moi, c'est un génie, celui qui se surnomme Peck Peckisblackman est un griot des temps moderne, il est suivi par des milliers de personnes sur les réseaux sociaux et lorsqu'il vous entraine dans ses souvenirs d'enfance à travers ses ouvrages, il y a des chances que vous ayez la sensation d'avoir passé un moment magique, malgré la larme que vous aurez à l'œil. Pacôme Christian est en effet l'auteur de la trilogie à succès “Les Traces D'une Enfance Hardie”, une série de nouvelles dans laquelle il célèbre la famille, avec un talent comparable à celui de l'illustre écrivain guinéen Camara Laye. Pacôme Christian est également l'auteur du roman “Au malheur des Dames”, une œuvre salutaire dans laquelle il dénonce les violences silencieuses subies par de nombreuses femmes. Humaniste, amoureux inconditionnel du continent, Pacôme Christian est aussi engagé dans plusieurs projets associatifs liés à la jeunesse et la petite enfance, et de nombreuses réalisations solidaires portent son empreinte en Côte d'Ivoire et en France. Crédits photo : SMAKH PRODUCTION Suivez Pacôme sur Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/pacomechristian Tous les Podcasts sont sur : https://www.african-valley.org Suivez nous sur twitter @talks_diaspora : https://twitter.com/talks_diaspora Suivez nous sur LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/company/conversations-avec-la-diaspora/ Suivez nous sur Facebook : https://bit.ly/fcbk_talks_diaspora Interview mené par Stéphane EKOBO @jsekobo : https://twitter.com/jsekobo

Featured Books and Resources Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark Worldcat The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye, (Trans) James Kirkup, (Intro) Toni Morrison Worldcat Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson Worldcat Fatelessness by Imre Kertész, Tim Wilkinson (Translator) Worldcat Atlas of Vanishing Places: The Lost Worlds as They Were and as They are Today by Travis Elborough Worldcat Cumulative List of Featured Books Get In Touch: Instagram @bookclubofuno bookclubofuno@gmail.com Goodreads

Une comparaison entre le départ de Candide du meilleur chateau du monde, et le départ du personnage principal de l'Enfant noir de Camara Laye, une histoire semi-autobiographique, dans laquelle un enfant est obligé de quitter sa famille et son village natal pour poursuivre ses études. Et un de nos hôtes, Marcos, a eu lui aussi des expériences similaires...

Hello and welcome to Episode Twenty Nine of Page Turn: the Largo Public Library Podcast. I'm your host, Hannah! If you enjoy the podcast subscribe, tell a friend, or write us a review! The Spanish Language Book Review begins at 13:34 and ends at 19:00 The English Language Transcript can be found below But as always we start with Reader's Advisory! The Reader's Advisory for Episode Twenty Nine is A Song For a New Day by Sarah Pinskey. If you like A Song For a New Day you should also check out: The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz, The Resisters by Gish Jen, and A Beginning At the End by Mike Chen. My personal favorite Goodreads list A Song For a New Day is on is Queer Books About Fictional Plagues. Happy Reading Everyone Today’s Library Tidbit is about our new Read Woke Initiative. Read Woke is a reading initiative that was started by Cicely Lewis a school librarian in Georgia. Lewis saw injustices happening around the country in the news and how it effected her students and decided to educate herself through books, podcasts, documentaries, and through connecting with other people and listening to their lived experiences. From that education she created a reading theme, Read Woke, to share with her students to get them engaged and to get them to self-educate not only about issues that effect them personally but also about issues that are effecting their peers. According to Cicely Lewis in order for a book to qualify as a “woke” book it must: challenge a social norm, tell the side of the oppressed, provide information about a group that has been disenfranchised, seek to challenge the status quo, and shed light on an issue that many may not perceive as being an issue. The Read Woke Initiative is being adapted by the new Diversity and Inclusion Committee. This committee, which is made up of library staff from all the different departments, was put together to further the library’s goals of being a more equitable, a more diverse, and a more inclusive place. You can find the library's policy and definitions for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion here. You can learn more about the Read Woke Initiative and join it here. The Read Woke Initiative is open to all ages with activities and materials geared to specific age ranges so everyone in the family and community can join. And now it's time for Book Traveler, with Victor: Welcome to a new edition of Book Traveler. My name is Victor and I am a librarian at the Largo Public Library. Today I'm going to talk to you about a new book we have in the Spanish collection titled The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison. Synopsis: What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity in The Origin of Others. In her search for answers, the novelist considers her own memories as well as history, politics, and especially literature. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, and Camara Laye are among the authors she examines. Readers of Morrison’s fiction will welcome her discussions of some of her most celebrated books―Beloved, Paradise, and A Mercy. If we learn racism by example, then literature plays an important part in the history of race in America, both negatively and positively. Morrison writes about nineteenth-century literary efforts to romance slavery, contrasting them with the scientific racism of Samuel Cartwright and the banal diaries of the plantation overseer and slaveholder Thomas Thistlewood. She looks at configurations of blackness, notions of racial purity, and the ways in which literature employs skin color to reveal character or drive narrative. Expanding the scope of her concern, she also addresses globalization and the mass movement of peoples in this century.

Jessica Powell was the top communications executive at Google when she found herself Googling, in no uncertain search terms, how to quit her job at Google. She tried approximately 837 different tactics before she ended up taking the leap, and now she’s a startup founder, a contributor to Medium and The New York Times, and the author of The Big Disruption, a novel about a giant Silicon Valley tech company. The eventual burnout and dissatisfaction Powell experienced is not unique in Silicon Valley, she tells us on this week’s Gadget Lab podcast. But it can be difficult to acknowledge when you’re working in an industry filled with mission-driven companies and leaders who want to “change the world” (and in some cases–––they do). Powell also talks about the commercialization of International Women’s Day, and speaks candidly about Facebook’s latest manifesto around privacy. “Facebook is in such a bad place that I feel like if they cough, people say, ‘That cough is just a way to get more data!’” Powell tells the Gadget Lab hosts. “There are so many conspiracy theories, and sometimes you just have to realize a cough is just a cough. But, I also don’t think that’s the case with this announcement.” Show notes: You can read WIRED editor-in-chief Nick Thompson’s interview with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg here, as well as a follow up story from Thompson and Issie Lapowsky. Read Klint Finley’s story about a possible return to Obama-era net neutrality rules here. For some of Powell’s recent writing, check out her Medium page. Recommendations: Jessica Powell recommends putting vegetable puree into buttermilk-free biscuits to trick your kids into eating their greens. She also recommends the book The Radiance of the King, by Camara Laye. Arielle recommends this WIRED guide to TikTok, and also, TikTok. Mike recommends the Beastie Boys Book audiobook, which is narrated by an all-star cast of characters. Lauren recommends Workin’ Moms, the CBC show that’s now on Netflix. If you have feedback for us, please, leave us a review! Or you can send the Gadget Lab hosts feedback on their personal Twitter feeds. Arielle Pardes can be found at @pardesoteric. Lauren Goode is @laurengoode. Michael Calore can be found at @snackfight. Bling the main hotline at @GadgetLab. Our theme song is by Solar Keys. How to Listen You can always listen to this week’s podcast through the audio player on this page, but if you want to subscribe for free to get every episode, here’s how: If you’re on an iPhone or iPad, open the app called Podcasts, or just Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of the Afropolitan Central podcast, we're talking about the record breaking film, Black Panther and examining the wider topic of African development. Honing in on the varied themes development represented in Wakanda, we explore what this representation means to us, the complex role colonialism among others has played in the reality and perception of the continent's development and spotlight Benin city of the ancient Benin empire, a real life Wakanda! Join us and let us know your thoughts and reactions after listening to the episode either in the comments box here or on our social media channels listed below! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/afropolitancentral/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AfropolitanCentral/ Resources used in the making of this podcast: Benin city- the might medieval city now lost without a trace: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace Benin- the sack that was by Professor Ekpo Eyo, O.F.R. http://www.dawodu.net/eyo.htm Benin city- the majestic city the British burnt to the ground https://afrolegends.com/2012/08/16/benin-city-the-majestic-city-the-british-burnt-to-the-ground/ Further resources to explore: 9. Racism and Ruins- the plundering of Great Zimbabwe https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/18/great-zimbabwe-medieval-lost-city-racism-ruins-plundering SUNU Journal: https://www.instagram.com/sunujournal/ SUNU, a Wolof (Senegal) word which means "our", is journal of collective African affairs, critical thought and aesthetics. Sunu's mission is to amplify the youth voice and contribute to strengthening their collective consciousness in critical engagement with African affairs, and aesthetics L’enfant Noir by Camara Laye https://www.amazon.com/LEnfant-Noir-Camara-Laye/dp/1585101532 The concept of Negritude in the poetry of Leopold Sedar Senghor https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt13x19xb

Camara Laye, né le 1er janvier 1928 à Kouroussa, un village de Haute-Guinée, est un écrivain guinéen d'expression française. Après des études à l'école française, Camara Laye part à Conakry, la capitale, poursuivre sa scolarité. Titulaire d'un CAP de mécanicien, il tente sans succès de devenir ingénieur en France. C'est alors que Camara Laye, qui traverse une période de désarroi, publie L'enfant noir, son premier roman, en 1953 et, un an plus tard, Le regard du roi.(Rediffusion du 17 août 2016).

Camara Laye, né le 1er janvier 1928 à Kouroussa, un village de Haute-Guinée, est un écrivain guinéen d'expression française. Après des études à l'école française, Camara Laye part à Conakry, la capitale, poursuivre sa scolarité. Titulaire d'un CAP de mécanicien, il tente sans succès de devenir ingénieur en France. C'est alors que Camara Laye, qui traverse une période de désarroi, publie L'enfant noir, son premier roman, en 1953 et, un an plus tard, Le regard du roi.(Rediffusion du 17 août 2016).