University of Wolverhampton International Festival
Tomorrow I'll be spinning a storytelling thread which will take the audience from the coalfields of the West Midlands to the red dunes of Namibia.
And I'll read from Kalahari Passage: “Survival was not counted in years, but in seasons of feast or famine: a child’s fate was linked to the prevailing climatic conditions at the time of its birth. Koba felt she must have been that most unlucky of children – one born in a harrowing drought. She had no one to confirm this: her close family were long dead and she’d spent her childhood thousands of miles from her Kalahari Desert home....” Free public lecture, followed by open-mic story-telling session. 'Tell Us a Tale', to celebrate the cultural diversity of this English Midlands university. Contact me for details or visit the link alongside. Shortlisted for the New Generation Thinkers 2012 scheme,
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Reading, Pleck library, Walsall, WS2 9RE
22May. 2.30 -3.30 pm with fellow-author, Bobby Nayyar . Further details here. Launch of Kalahari Passage, in paperback. (TSP: 2012)Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham
in association with The Writers' Reading Group @ mac 31 May, 19:00 - 21:00 Illustrated talk & reading by author at this FREE event. Black History Month talk
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