A high-level platform for imagining, assessing, and keeping pace with the ideas, realities, and futures of Africa by the continent’s finest minds. The lectures are established to bring greater visibility, from the perspective of Africa to Princeton’s support of knowledge production about Africa. The lectures will take place in October.
Abdulrazak Gurnah is a Tanzanian-born British novelist and academic. Mr. Gurnah is known for his novels about the effects of colonialism and displacement in the world.
In 2021, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism”…
Presenting the Inaugural Africa World Lectures, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Enugu, Nigeria in 1977. She grew up on the campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where her father was a professor, and her mother was the first female registrar. She graduated summa cum laude from Eastern Connecticut State University with a degree in Communication and Political Science.