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Veronique Tadjo presents, Writing in Difficult Times: Ebola 2014
Tuesday, October 01, 2019, 04:30pm - 06:00pm
Véronique Tadjo is a writer, artist and academic. Born in Paris, she grew up in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, where she did most of her studies. After earning a doctorate in Black American Literature and Civilization from the Sorbonne, Paris IV, she did further research as a Fulbright scholar at Howard University.
She went back to Abidjan to lecture at the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny for several years. Her work includes poetry collections and novels among which The Shadow of Imana; Queen Pokou (Grand Prix d’Afrique Noire, 2005); Far Away from my Father and En Compagnie des Hommes (The Whispering Tree, translation in progress). She is also an author of books for young people, an illustrator, and a painter. Her work has been translated from the French into numerous languages.
She has lived in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa where she was Head of French and Francophone Studies for 7 years at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She now shares her time between London and Abidjan.
The lecture will also include readings from the novel, The Whispering Tree.