Two high profile writers – one South African born, Thando Mgqolozana and the other from Nigeria, Uwem Akpan will be visiting the Luthuli Museum and fielding questions from the public on the 11th March at 10am.
Their appearance is part of the five-day Centre for Creative Arts ‘Time of the Writer Festival’ that takes place annually at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Both writers are achievers in their own field. In his own words Uwem Akpan shares a glimpse of the small village in Ikot Akpan Eda in Ikot Ekpene Diocese in Nigeria. Uwem was born under a palm-wine tree and was inspired to write by the people who sit around his church to share the drink after Sunday Mass, by the Bible and by the humor and endurance of the poor.
Thando is a graduate of the University of the Western Cape, where he was selected as a Mandela Rhodes Scholar. He has worked as a data analyst for the Western Cape Social Development department and the Human Science Research Council or HSRC in Cape Town.
He has tackled the contentious subject of a traditional circumsion ceremony gone wrong and looks at the values and myths around what it means to become a man.
