The Memory of Love: A Book Reading, signing and Conversation.
Please join us in welcoming award-winning author Aminatta Forna for a book reading and conversation about her novel, The Memory of Love, a brilliant new work elucidating the costs and damages of civil war in West Africa in the 1990’s.
The Memory of Love is winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize best Book Award 2011, and was short-listed for the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction and the Warwick Prize. Growing up in Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom, Ms. Forna has authored two other distinguished works, The Devil That Danced on Water (about her dissident father and Sierra Leone) and Ancestor Stones (a novel about the lives of four women, a plantation, and change in Africa). Described as one of Africa’s most promising new writers, Ms Forna is also an activist, someone who has helped build a school in her native Rogbonko and who works to promote the arts and culture of Africa widely in both television and print media.
Africana Studies is proud to welcome Aminatta Forna as our 2011 Sterling Brown Visiting Professor. She will be teaching AFR 205, Introduction to African Literature: Witness Literature, this Fall.