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Mbele: Afrifest 2015 is Here, August 1
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Friday, July 31, 2015. Afrifest 2015 is Here, August 1. Time flies, and the much anticipated Afrifest. Is no longer months, weeks, or days away. It is tomorrow, August 1. I wrote about it in an earlier blog post. Stop by and experience a rich and varied display of Pan African history and culture, through exhibits, performances and interactions with people of different regions of the Pan African world and beyond, ranging from children to adults. For the full festival program visit this site.
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Mbele: African Americans We Met at Afrifest 2015
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Sunday, August 2, 2015. African Americans We Met at Afrifest 2015. I want to continue sharing my memories of Afrifest 2015,. Which was held yesterday at Northview Junior High School in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. As I mentioned on this blog,. Stories of that festival will continue to be told, and I want to focus on one aspect: encounters with African Americans. I was at the festival as an educator, writer, and cultural consultant,. Incidentally, I have known Professor Mahmoud el Kati. I seized the opportun...
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Mbele: My African Literature Summer Course, 2015
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Thursday, July 23, 2015. My African Literature Summer Course, 2015. On July 13, I started teaching a summer course on African Literature. I have chosen to use the following texts. 2 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's. The Thing Around Your Neck. 3 Ama Ata Aidoo's. The Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa. The Tuner of Silences. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears. I have decided to teach Leila Aboulela's. Worked for my class, I am already thinking about teaching her other works in the future. I have not, however, read.
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Mbele: African Storytelling at Afrifest 2015
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Saturday, August 1, 2015. African Storytelling at Afrifest 2015. Today, many roads led to Afrifest,. As part of the planning for Afrifest 2015,. The board of the Afrifest Foundation. Accepted my idea that we enrich children's experience of the festival with the addition of African storytelling. This was a new feature in the history of Afrifest, but I was eager to do it, given my years of experience as a folklorist and storyteller. I told the tale of "The Monster in the Rice Field," which also features in.
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Mbele: Author Seenaa's Book Event, Minneapolis
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Thursday, August 6, 2015. Author Seenaa's Book Event, Minneapolis. On Sunday August 2, I got a Facebook message from my friend Peter Magai Bul who lives in Chicago telling me that a sister, Seenaa Oromia, activist and author of. The In-Between: The Story of African Oromo Women and the American Experience. Was coming to Minneapolis to do a book signing the following day. I had not heard about this author and about the event, and I thanked Peter and told him I would make every effort to attend. Then Seenaa...
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Mbele: Teaching Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Works
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Monday, April 27, 2015. Teaching Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Works. Like countless other people around the world, I am an ardent admirer of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's works. I first read and taught. Her first novel, in 2006, reading as I taught. Half of a Yellow Sun. On October 14, 2006, she introduced it at the Twin Cities Book Festival in Minneapolis. I attended her reading and book signing and posed for a picture with her. Proud of my signed copy, I was sure that someday I would teach. Now, I am prepar...
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Mbele: Teaching Athol Fugard's Plays
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Friday, May 21, 2010. Teaching Athol Fugard's Plays. Two weeks ago, I was in the midst of teaching Athol Fugard's plays to my senior class, all English majors. We got to Fugard after studying Tawfiq al-Hakim's The Tree Climber. An intriguing but very interesting play. Before that, we had discussed two plays by Ama Ata Aidoo and two by Wole Soyinka. I had chosen two plays by Fugard: A Lesson From Aloes. And Sorrows and Rejoicings. I recall, vaguely, that I read A Lesson From Aloes. My growing interest in ...
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Mbele: Planning for Afrifest
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Saturday, June 20, 2015. Today I attended a meeting of the Afrifest Foundation. At the Brookdale Library in Brooklyn Park. The main agenda item was planning for this year's Afrifest, scheduled for August 1. For more information and updates, please check the Afrifest Facebook page. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Enter your email address:. View my complete profile. Looking Forward to the Deep Valley Book Festival, . Ernest Hemingway, a bridge between cultures. Ujumbe kwa Polisi wa Tanzania Kuhusu UKUTA.
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