Podcasts about helon habila

Otobong Nkanga talks to Ben Luke about her influences—from writers to musicians, film-makers and, of course, other artists—and the cultural experiences that have shaped her life and work. Nkanga, born in 1974 in Kano, Nigeria, explores the land and the environment in relation to our bodies and the cultures and histories that mould and define them. Working across sculpture, installation, performance, sound, photography and video, Otobong brings together what she calls constellations of images, movements and objects, to poetically interweave ideas relating to cultural history and anthropology, geography and geology. She fuses in-depth research with her own lived experience. The result is a practice with a distinctive coherence between materials and concepts, where references to present-day geopolitical and ecological realities sit alongside forms, metaphors and symbols that speak to broader timescales and narratives and disparate belief systems. She reflects on her early choice to pursue art over architecture, discusses her use of minerals and particular colours, recalls encountering the Bakor monoliths in Nigeria as a child, and then Western masters from Caravaggio to De Hooch in Europe. She talks about her enjoyment of writers like Uwem Akpan and Helon Habila and the huge range of music she plays in her studio, from Alt-J via Fatoumata Diawara to Rihanna. Plus she gives insights into life in her studio and answers our usual questions, including the ultimate: “what is art for?”Otobong Nkanga: We Come from Fire and Return to Fire, Lisson Gallery,London, until 3 August. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This book inspires the topics discussed in this episode with personal essays from 24 Nigerian writers, and a more complete and authentic image of the country comes to light. The book delves into the complexities and paradoxes of patriotism, the influence of social class and privilege in Nigerian society, the tension between traditional customs and the diasporic way of life, and the potency of storytelling and its intrinsic association with Nigeria's history. In this collection, highly acclaimed and award-winning writers share their unique memories and experiences of Nigeria, providing an insider's perspective of a country whose influence can be felt worldwide. With essays from Nels Abbey, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Yomi Adegoke, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Oyinkan Akande, Ike Anya, Sefi Atta, Bolu Babalola, J K Chukwu, Abi Daré, Inua EllamsChịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ, Caleb Femi, Helon Habila, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Anietie Isong, Okey Ndibe, Chigozie Obioma, Irenosen Okojie, Cheluchi Onyemelukwe, Lola Shoneyin, Umar Turaki, Chika Unigwe and Hafsa Zayyan. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caught-readhanded/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/caught-readhanded/support

Helon Habila, a professor of creative writing at George Mason University, and an acclaimed international author, has never shied away from important issues. In a fascinating discussion, Habila, the author of four novels, tells Mason President Gregory Washington about his process of combining compelling narratives and characters with current examples of oppression and exploitation, and how his factual account of the 2014 kidnapping in Nigeria of 276 young girls by the terrorist group Boko Haram forced him to confront his homeland as he had never seen it.

Mason Creative Writing presents 12 diverse writers each year in its Visiting Writers Series where they are joined by a host to talk about craft, content, and the art of creative writing. In this episode, fiction faculty member Helon Habila talks with Tope Folarin, author of A Particular Kind of Black Man.

Helon Habila believes in hard work, perseverance, and believing in himself and his capabilities. His motivation to be a great writer led him to defy the wishes of his parents and to challenge the negative beliefs of some of his fellow authors. He always believed his dream was possible, even if he didn't realize how big that dream could be and the reach it would have. Helon was willing to make big sacrifices in pursuit of his writing career, including leaving Nigeria, a country that was suffering from the consequences of a totalitarian military regime. Despite having won awards for his work, Helon maintains a humble attitude. He recognizes that he has had a lot of luck, which he could only leverage thanks to his preparation. Helon's determination is a big part of what allowed him to become a published author by Penguin, one of the world's top publishing houses. His advice to writers is to own their voice by understanding their culture and where they come from. Only then will they be able to see where they can innovate and how they can make their impact on the world. About Helon Habila Helon Habila is a Nigerian writer, poet, literary, and pioneer when it comes to African literature. He is an award-winning author, having earned prestigious recognitions such as the National Poetry Award and the Caine Prize. He has also been nominated for numerous other awards. Helon is currently a professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and he is in the process of writing his next novel, tentatively titled The Fortress. Highlights of the episode: 02:17: Helon Habila's journey to literature after trying to meet parental expectations by studying engineering.  06:57: How Helon had to hide his decision to become a writer for fear of being misunderstood. 11:06: Helon's start in the writing industry as a struggling romance story writer.  14:14: The “I made it” moment that encouraged Helon to keep writing.  16:40: The hardships faced by the publishing industry.   21:25: Helon's decision to enter his work into a contest posing as a publisher 23:50: The experience of being part of a community that believed in making cultural changes in Nigeria.  25:05: The need to leave the country to be able to write due to the anti-culture atmosphere in Nigeria. 29:23: Visualizing success and believing in the quality of his work helped Helon get where he wanted to be.  31:43: The need for a new model that allowed African writers to be published.  36:34: What it means to own your voice. 40:14: The process of reinventing yourself and adapting after arriving in a new country and how this can impact creativity. Mentioned Resources Third Culture Africans Malée Helon Habila

Terugluisteren: De waterdanser van Ta-Nehisi Coates Deze week gaan we terug naar onze allereerste podcastaflevering. Deze aflevering kwam uit op 22 april 2020. Lola en Suzanne bespreken het prachtige boek De waterdanser van Ta-Nehisi Coates. We praten over superheldenverhalen in tijden van slavernij, wit feminisme en de kracht van herinneringen. Hiram Walker werd geboren als slaaf. Hij verloor zijn moeder en alle herinneringen aan haar toen hij nog een kind was, maar hij heeft ook een gave meegekregen. Wanneer Hiram bijna verdrinkt tijdens een ongeluk in de rivier, wordt hij gered door een mysterieuze kracht, die hem optilt en weer aan land zet. Deze vreemde ervaring wakkert Hirams rebellie aan. Aangespoord door zijn zelfgekozen familie op de plantage is hij vastbesloten te ontsnappen. Een onverwachte reis vangt aan, die Hiram van de tabaksplantages in Virginia naar wanhopige guerrillacellen in de jungle voert, van het diepe Zuiden tot de gevaarlijke utopische bewegingen in het Noorden. Terwijl hij verwikkeld raakt in de oorlog tussen slaven en slavenhouders, wil hij enkel terugkeren naar de plantage om zijn familie te bevrijden. Maar om dat te bereiken moet hij eerst het verhaal van zijn grootste verlies reconstrueren. Vind het boek hier in onze wesbhop. Meer lezen van mensen met een ander perspectief? “The Water Dancer: An Evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates“ – een uitgebreide YouTube clip waarin de auteur vertelt over het schrijven van De waterdanser.“The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates review – a slave's story“ – bespreking van het boek De Waterdanser door Helon Habila in The Guardian. “De kracht van het woord: het n-woord in de Nederlandse vertaalpraktijk“ – een essay over de noodzaak voor consciëntieus taalgebruik in vertalingen van literatuur door mensen van kleur door Neske Beks. “Nederlandse vertaling van Frantz Fanon's ‘Peau noire, masques blancs' is problematisch!“ – aflevering van de podcast Dipsaus uit 2018, waarin Ebissé Rouw samen met Grâce Ndjako en Amandla Awethuover spreekt over de problemen in de nieuwe vertaling van Frantz Fanon's ‘Peau noire, masques blancs'. Terug naar boven

Listen to more of our conversation with author Helon Habila where he talks about immigration policy in Europe and modern African literature. Listen to the broadcast interview with author Helon Habila, broadcast on KGNU at 9am on Thursday, March 25th. […]

The February selection for the Radio Bookclub is Perestroika In Paris, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley. The novel’s protagonist is a runaway racehorse who befriends a German shorthaired pointer. Together they live on the streets of Paris until they befriend a human boy, Etienne, and discover a new, otherworldly part of the city.

This episode's conversation is inspired by 'Travellers', a novel by Helon Habila which explores the interconnected experiences of migrants. In this episode, Suad shares her experience of feeling unsafe in Berlin, we discuss the importance of empathy, what makes a good ally and how we can make a difference in the world. We hope you enjoy the episode and as always, email us your thoughts at bookversationspod@gmail.com Next Bookversations Read: The Obstacle Is The Way By Ryan Holiday

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In the first episode of the Open Book Podcast Series, Nigerian author Helon Habila is in conversation with Bongani Kona about his new book, Travellers. This novel tracks the experience of African migrants in Europe, based on interviews Helon had done himself. This is a conversation about travelling – Helon's life as a traveller, as well as the travels of displaced people across the European continent. For more information on the podcast series, check out our website: openbookfestival.co.za, or email Vasti. Produced by Andri Burnett. Hosted by Vasti Calitz.

Der nigerianische Schriftsteller Helon Habila macht Berlin in seinem neuen Roman "Reisen" zum Drehkreuz zwischen Afrika und Europa für eine Handvoll Geflüchtete. Im Spiegel ihrer Geschichten erzählt er auch vom schwierigen Verhältnis zweier Kontinente. Rezension von Claudia Kramatschek. Aus dem Englischen von Susann Urban Verlag das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2020, 320 Seiten, 25 Euro ISBN 978-3-88423-637-6

The House of Hunger was originally published in by Heinemann in 1978. The book is a collection of harrowing, autobiographical short stories in which Marechera’s experiences both in his native Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and as a university student at Oxford, are channeled into a psychedelic cascade of blistering imagery and broken stream-of-consciousness narratives. In his own words, writing in English - his second language - rather than the Shona he grew up speaking, meant confronting the inherent racism of the language, “discarding grammar, throwing syntax out, subverting images within […] developing torture chambers of irony and sarcasm, gas ovens of limitless black resonance”. 

 Over the course of the episode, we discuss the violence and vibrancy of Marechera’s prose, consider his attitude to the newly independent Zimbabwe, and his torturous love affair with the English language. 

 Bibliography: 
 'African Doppelganger: Hybridity and Identity in the Work of Dambudzo Marechera' by David Buuck in Research in African Literatures, Vol. 28, No. 2, Autobiography and African Literature (Summer, 1997), pp. 118-131 'On Dambudzo Marechera: The Life and Times of an African Writer' by Helon Habila in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 82, No. 1, A Special Report: Aids in Africa (Winter 2006), pp. 251-260 ‘Reveling in Genre: An Interview with China Miéville’ in Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 30, No. 3, The British SF Boom (Nov., 2003), pp. 355-373 

Aus der Jury diskutieren die Literaturkritikerinnen Julia Schröder, Kirsten Voigt und Insa Wilke mit Carsten Otte über Bücher von Yevgeniy Breyger, Helon Habila, Monika Helfer und Julian Barnes.

Ein Berlin-Roman, der als realistische Erzählung beginnt, um sich zu einem Mosaik aus Migrationserfahrungen zu entwickeln. Gegen die Heimatlosigkeit der Figuren wird die Literatur als sinnstiftendes Medium gesetzt.

Der nigerianische Autor Helon Habila hat mit "Reisen" einen ebenso überraschenden wie ergreifenden Berlin-Roman geschrieben. Was als realistische Erzählung beginnt, wird zu einer mythischen Parabel. Von Insa Wilke www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Lesart Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei

Der Roman "Öl auf Wasser" von Helon Habila erzählt die Geschichte des jungen Reporters Rufus und seiner ersten großen Story. Eigentlich ist die Geschichte "zu groß" für ihn. Trotzdem lässt er sich auf den gefährlichen Auftrag im Niger-Delta ein.

The Auckland Writers Festival Winter Series will be streaming live and free-to-view on the Festival’s YouTube and Facebook channels, and then available as a video or podcast via our soundcloud, iTunes or our website. Episode Eight features: PHILIPPA SWAN Philippa Swan’s time-travelling novel The Night of All Souls blends a contemporary tale with the secrets of the 1921 Pulitzer-prizewinner Edith Wharton.So Swan trained as a landscape architect and wrote the critically acclaimed non-fiction book, Life (and Death) In A Small City Garden. She is a freelance writer for NZ Gardener and Cuisine, and has won awards for her short-stories. FREYA DALY SADGROVE Writer, performer and theatre maker Freya Daly Sadgrove recently published her first poetry collection, Head Girl. Her work is described as profoundly funny, surprising and moving, and ruthless in its interrogation of human behaviour. She has a Master's in Poetry from Victoria University of Wellington, and her work has appeared in various publications in Aotearoa, Australia and the US. HELON HABILA Nigerian US-based journalist, poet, and author Helon Habila is considered one of Africa’s finest literary voices. He writes about identity, exile and the many kinds of travellers now crisscrossing Africa and Europe. Habila’s fourth, novel Travellers has it all, reviews The Guardian, “intelligence, tragedy, poetry, love, intimacy, compassion, and a serious, soulful, arms-wide engagement with one of the most acute concerns of our age – the refugee crisis”. Habila has won numerous awards including the Caine Prize, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and Windham-Campbell Literature Prize. HOST: PAULA MORRIS (Aotearoa New Zealand) Paula Morris (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whātua) is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist. The 2019 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellow, she teaches creative writing at The University of Auckland, sits on the Māori Literature Trust and is the founder of the Academy of NZ Literature. This series provides an opportunity to champion New Zealand and international books that were to feature at our cancelled May Festival, we encourage you to support writers and NZ publishers and booksellers by purchasing featured books. Order via our Festival bookseller. #awfwinterseries

Fictie Boek van de Maand April | De Waterdanser van Ta-Nehisi Coates In deze eerste aflevering van Radio Savannah bespreken Lola en Suzanne het fictie boek van de maand april: De waterdanser van Ta-Nehisi Coates. We praten over superheldenverhalen in tijden van slavernij, wit feminisme en de kracht van herinneringen. Meer lezen van mensen met een ander perspectief? Hierbij een greep uit mogelijke andere stemmen over deze thema's. "The Water Dancer: An Evening with Ta-Nehisi Coates" - een uitgebreide YouTube clip waarin de auteur vertelt over het schrijven van De waterdanser. "The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates review – a slave’s story" - bespreking van het boek De Waterdanser door Helon Habila in The Guardian. Meer lezen over het belang van taal en stemmen bij het spreken over thema's als slavernij, kolonialisme en racisme? Hierbij een greep uit mogelijke beginpunten voor een verkenning: "De kracht van het woord: het n-woord in de Nederlandse vertaalpraktijk" - een essay over de noodzaak voor consciëntieus taalgebruik in vertalingen van literatuur door mensen van kleur door Neske Beks. "Nederlandse vertaling van Frantz Fanon's 'Peau noire, masques blancs' is problematisch!" - aflevering van de podcast Dipsaus uit 2018, waarin Ebissé Rouw samen met Grâce Ndjako en Amandla Awethuover spreekt over de problemen in de nieuwe vertaling van Frantz Fanon's 'Peau noire, masques blancs'. Meer lezen over Ta-Nehisi Coates en zijn werk? Begin dan bijvoorbeeld hier: "Schrijver Ta-Nehisi Coates: ‘De zwakke witte macht brengt Amerika in gevaar’" - interview met Coates door Michael Persson in de Volkskrant. Coates schreef jarenlang stukken over politiek en cultuur voor het Amerikaanse tijdschrift The Atlantic. Hier lees je al zijn teksten terug.

In Nigerian author Helon Habila’s latest novel, “Travelers”, Habila brings African expat and migrant stories to life in a number of short stories that are woven into a complex narrative of safety, identity, loss, and love. He also reflects on his own experiences, dealing with homesickness in “a new place that you’re trying to make sense of.” In stories that begin and end between Germany, London, Malawi, Somalia, and Libya, in apartment blocks and refugee camps, Habila draws on personal tales why people live outside their countries for various reasons. The first encounter with Mark, a young Malawian who holds a life-changing secret, sets the pace for this look into the lives of others. One character, an elderly Zambian writer, is a political dissident in exile, a familiar person with African expats, the token African writer living outside of the continent. “You leave your country and you cannot be the kind of writer you want, the kind of writer you thought you were going to be,” says Habila.” You become this voice of Africa, you’re interviewed any time there is a coup d’etat,” he says adding that political dissidence because it is the only thing that gives him relevance. Ultimately, each and every one of us has a journey, and a story, says Habila. His experience with talking to Africans in Europe is that they want to be understood. “They feel unseen… anyone who listens to them is validation that they are alive and they are heard.”

Helon Habila "Travelers".

In "Silence is My Mother Tongue", the latest novel by Eritrean-Ethiopian writer Sulaiman Addonia, teen Saba and her brother Hagos arrive at a refugee camp in Sudan, where she is determined to continue her studies, while he is content to take care of her. The other Eritrean refugees bring their conservative views to the camp, especially when it comes to women. Addonia brings Saba to life through her fight to determine her own future, refusing the traditional restrictions imposed on her gender. "We need to take responsibility and accountability for the war we commit, especially against women," says Addonia, speaking of the struggle Saba has to assert herself, and her quest to finish her educaiton. "If there are crimes committed by women, or seem to be committed by women, they are extremely highlighted," he adds. Also included in this podcast: Helon Habila, Nigerian author of "Travelers", a novel coming out in June, speaks about his favorite book from the Heinemann African classics series.  

Noreg og Nigeria deler eit traume: Terrorangrep retta mot barn og ungdom. Korleis kan foreldra leve vidare når det aller verste har skjedd? Det er eit av spørsmåla nigerianske Helon Habila stiller i dokumentarboka The Chibok Girls, som undersøker kva som skjedde da Boko Haram bortførte 276 jenter nord i Nigeria i 2014. I Brit Bildøen sin kritikarroste roman Sju dagar i august møter vi eit ektepar som framleis slit med sorga, åtte år etter at dottera døydde på Utøya 22. juli 2011. Korleis forfattarar kan nærme seg slike traume, er tema når Bildøen og Habila møtest til samtale. Samtalen blir leia av forfattar Aage Storm Borchgrevink.

Len deg tilbake og lytt til tre forfattarar som alle behandlar det vonde i litteraturen, men på kvart sitt språk, frå kvart sitt kontinent, i ulike sjangrar og med kvar si unike stemme. Hakan Günday (Tyrkia), Helon Habila (Nigeria) og Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Colombia) les utvalde tekstar frå bøkene sine i engelsk omsetjing.

Helon Habila reads sections from his book The Chibok Girls

Award-winning Nigerian novelist, Helon Habila, is this year's Africana Senghor-Damas-Cesaire Lecturer. In this lecture, he speaks on the history of the African novel and its future.

The Library of Congress, African and Middle Eastern Division and Poetry and Literature Center in partnership with The Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa hosted a reading and book signing with Award-winning Nigerian Novelist Helon Habila The author read excerpts from his novel "Oil On Water" and discussed his new anthology "The Granta Book of the African Short Story". For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5550.