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In this episode, we explore Africa as not some out of the way place riddled with poverty and conflict, but as a more ordinary place that is home to ordinary people, and the place from which they welcome – or not – their many and varied visitors. We explore the human connections that are possible, and those that have been made more difficult by traumatic colonial pasts. But we also talk about Africa, and Africans, as inherently worldly, both bigger and older than the colonial encounter.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is an award-winning novelist and essayist based in Nairobi, Kenya. In this episode, she speaks with Sam Balaton-Chrimes about her two novels, The Dragonfly Sea and Dust. Whether you’re a fan, or this is your first encounter with Yvonne’s work, do listen. You don’t have to have read her books to follow!

Yvonne’s work and this conversation with her ask the questions: how are we human in amongst troubled colonial histories? How can we connect with each-other? And how can we remind ourselves of all the interactions we have had and will have across cultures that transcend colonialism?

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