Arts & Books

LETTER EMBARGOED UNTIL MARCH 3 2010
February 26, 2010

Ms. Irina Bokova
Director-General of UNESCO
UNESCO Headquarters
7, place de Fontenoy
75352 Paris 07 SP
France

cc: The Executive Board of UNESCO

Good afternoon. I'd like to thank the Center for African Studies for inviting me here this afternoon and particularly Merle Bowen for organising this session.

‘Ten Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing’ (2009), published by the New Internationalist, is a timely celebration of recent African writing in the literary genre of the short story. The text revisits the ten years of the existence of the Caine Prize and the winning short stories.

This groundbreaking book 'Weh Dehn Say?

The documentary ‘Mugabe and the White African’, directed by Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson, is an intimate account about Michael Campbell, one of the few white farmers left in Zimbabwe since Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF began a violent land sei

The trouble with people who know about mobile phone technology is that they are a lot better at good ideas than they are at explaining to non-techies what their good ideas are for.

It is really great to be young; but for those who are not, the next best thing is to be at a Teddy Afro concert and jam late into the night with a ballroom full of irrepressible and euphoric, young Ethiopian Angelinos.