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Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah: Why we must listen to the Global South


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The Global South has vital perspectives in addressing the most pressing issues of our times, including inequality, the climate catastrophe, the mass displacement of humans, and the technologisation of life. Why aren't we listening? … Listening also to African diasporic writers when they correct the often unflattering stories about their home countries.

Speaking from the South was presented by the University of Adelaide

Africa Now was presented by the Sydney Writers Festival

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Abdulrazak GurnahZanzibar-born Nobel-prize winning author of 10 novels, his latest is Afterlives

Oliver TwistWriter, actor and Comedian – shows Jali and Griot

Sara El SayedEgyptian-born writer and Sessional Academic working at the Queensland University of TechnologyAuthor of Muddy People

Professor Tina Steiner (host – Speaking from the South)Chair of the English Department at Stellenbosch University in South Africa

Sisonke Msimang (host – Africa Now)Columnist and author of Always Another Country: A memoir of Exile and Home

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