A work examining contemporary Nigerian diasporic female identity through the contradictions inherent to an ethnographic reading of the funeral of the filmmakers’ family matriarch. Using personal archive to explore the concepts of female identity, diaspora, cultural memory and most importantly ‘fiction’.
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NoViolet Bulawayo reading: We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo reads from her novel We Need New Names at Eat Drink & Be Literary. Mar 19 2014 BAMcafé.
NoViolet Bulawayo on "We Need New Names"
NoViolet Bulawayo was born in Tsholotsho a year after Zimbabwe's independence from British colonial rule. We Need New Names is her first novel. In 2013 it ...
NoViolet Bulawayo Launches 'We Need New Names' in Zimbabwe
NoViolet Bulawayo pays a moving tribute to her father and talks about being an African writer at the Zimbabwe launch of 'We Need New Names'.
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