Ngugi wa Thiong'o lecture announcement

David Gene Lewis coyotez at DARKWING.UOREGON.EDU
Wed Mar 9 19:02:30 UTC 2005


Dear Friends,
Please attend the following lecture by African indigenous scholar
Ngugi wa Thiong'o at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.

(This announcement does not mention that Ngugi is also a champion for
the writing of African Literatures in Indigenous African languages,
rather than in European languages!)

Public lecture by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

30 Mar 2005

    * Renowned Kenyan Novelist & Human Rights Activist
    * Distinguished Professor of English & Comparative Literature and
Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation at UC
Irvine
    * Author of "Decolonising the Mind" among numerous other works

      Planting African Memory:
      The Role of a Scholar in a Postcolonial World

      Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 7:30pm
      175 Knight Law Center

      For more details please see "upcoming Events" link at
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~dgalvan/asc/asc.html

David Lewis
University of Oregon
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde



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