WEALTH OF IDEAS

The heightened literary activities in Zimbabwe are quite refreshing and inspiring. Of course, throughout Africa, and especially in English-speaking Africa, which I have immediate access to, due to a shared language, there seems to be a huge literary awakening. I like most the sudden availability of African books online and in  American bookstores. Zimbabwean writers  have many reasons to work harder, with a measure of optimism, because our literature has returned on the map. (It's hard to think it ever left, yet more readers seem to have (re-) discovered it). We have recently had considerable successes, both locally and internationally, in terms of output and discovery of new talent. And on the international scale, our sitting on the shortlist of the 2013 Booker Prize, for instance, was one of the many signs that the literature is alive,  and all the other signs of a strengthening literature--a recent winning of the Caine, the Guardian, and getting shortlisted on the Kwani Manusc

Presents   Nancy Aidé Gonzalez and Rhony Bhopla Monday, January 13 at 7:30 PM 1719 25th Street Host: Emmanuel Sigauke Nancy Aidé González is a Chicana poet, educator, and activist. She graduated from California State University, Sacramento with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature. She attended Las Dos Brujas Writer’s Workshop in 2012. Her work has appeared in Huizache The magazine of Latino literature, Mujeres De Maiz Zine, DoveTales, Tule Review , Seeds of Resistance Flor y Canto: Tortilla Warrior, La Bloga, and several other literary journals . Her work is featured in the Sacramento Voices: Foam at the Mouth Anthology (2013). She is a participating member of Escritores del Nuevo Sol. Tapestry of Dawn Sun, summoning dawn truth will come with portraits of consciousness narratives of shelter interlocked woven fabrics find equilibrium strings of transcendence in cosmos beyond ancient knowledge alive planets orbit echoing memory of universe saffron sta