London Book Launch: 'Another Sun' by Françoise Vergès and Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro
- Date & time
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- Speaker
- Françoise Vergès, Kevin Ochieng OkothFrançoise Vergès is a senior research fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, University College London. Kevin Ochieng Okoth is a writer based in London.
- Location
- Birkbeck Clore Management Centre
- Organisation
- Birkbeck
Topics
About this talk
Waiting at Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport, in the city of Le Lamentin, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro browses the airport kiosk. Alongside books by Césaire, it offers titles by Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé and Patrick Chamoiseau. She picks up a copy of Nègre je suis, nègre je resterai, a conversation between Françoise Vergès and Césaire published in 2005, and embarks. In 'Another Sun', Rodríguez Castro and Vergès revisit that seminal conversation, resulting in an eclectic text shaped by ongoing struggles. With poems by Danielle Legros Georges, Wole Soyinka, Ishion Hutchinson, Clarisse Baleja Saïdi, Aimé Césaire and Jean Érian Samson. Françoise Vergès will be in conversation about her book with Kevin Ochieng Okoth. Doors open at 5.15 pm, event starts at 5.30 pm. Followed by drinks and books for sale. The event will be recorded and livestreamed.
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