Teju Cole, who visits Friday, 2/10, has taken to tweeting headlines and stories from the Nigerian newspapers, reformulated as a kind of poetry. Another tweeter-blogger, based in Monrovia, Liberia, has categorized them as "totally brilliant and unique" Haiku remixes:
"In Calabar South, Inyang, refilling a kerosene lantern while its wick was lit, sent himself and two others into final darkness."
"The man whom the concerned citizens of Port Harcourt nearly lynched for turning a boy into a goat is now being interrogated by police."
“'Dr Collins Okafor,' not a doctor at all, worked at the General Hospital in Calabar for only a year before he was found out."
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Showing posts with label africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label africa. Show all posts
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Headline Haiku
Thursday, January 12, 2012
New Film About AIDS in Africa
Sheila Curran Bernard, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, and UAlbany Assistant Professor of History and Documentary Studies, is the cowriter of a new film about AIDS in Africa, Inside Story: The Science of HIV/AIDS.
The film premiered in South Africa on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2011 and premieres in the U.S. and Nigeria in 2012. It will be broadcast to nearly 300 million viewers throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and will reach millions more through a public/private distribution network.
Curran Bernard is also the script writer for SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME, based on Douglas A. Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the abuse of black laborers in the United States from the end of the Civil War through the middle of the 20th century. As part of the New York State Writers Institute Classic Film Series, Blackmon and Curran Bernard will answer questions immediately following the screening of SLAVERY on Friday, Feb. 3rd.
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