Ngugi wa Thiong’o - The Globalectical Imagination: The World and the Postcolonial (Critical Social Theory at McGill)
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A Roundtable on the work of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, followed by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s lecture, "The Globalectical Imagination: The World and the Postcolonial”
Wednesday, April 5 2017, 3:30-6:30pm
Leacock 232
McGill University
Speakers (in order):
Gavin Walker
Monica Popescu
Sandeep Banerjee
Rachel Sandwell
William Clare Roberts
Mbaye Diouf
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, born in Limuru, Kenya in 1938, is one of the most prominent novelists and writers of the contemporary world, a leading figure in African literature and scholarship, a world-famous theorist of decolonization, post-colonial literature and politics, and Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine.
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