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What does Ake Festival 2019 theme \u2018Black Bodies, Grey Matter\u2019 mean to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a certain racist narrative that suggests black people are inferior intellectually. The festival theme responds differently by showing that black bodies are intellectual. In doing it among other black bodies, it\u2019s less to try to explain itself to whiteness and more to empower each other. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Which African or Diasporan novel do you think best explores the Black Body?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sulaiman Addonia\u2019s Silence is My Mother Tongue.<\/em><\/p>\n

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You are asked to write an African femme fatale<\/em> as an alien. What physical attributes would she have?<\/strong><\/p>\n

She\u2019ll be telekinetic and a mind-reader. Though I am not sure I would, since Africans are already alienated enough.<\/p>\n

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What book would you give to a dark-skinned young woman who has expressed an intent to buy bleaching cream?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Angela Makholwa\u2019s The Blessed Girl.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Does the African writer have a specific role to play in the current world order?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The job of a writer, African or otherwise, is to write and write the best work they can. If their best work educates, critiques or pricks the reader\u2019s conscience, then that\u2019s great; but art should never take a back seat to some supposed bigger messaging.<\/p>\n

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Which person do you think best represents an African perspective in the ongoing discourse on gender?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Academic and poet Danai Mupotsa.<\/p>\n

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You\u2019re giving a talk at a symposium on mental health, which African novels will you reference?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma\u2019s House of Stone<\/em>, Tsitsi Dangarembga\u2019s This Mournable Body<\/em>, Akwaeke Emezi\u2019s Freshwater<\/em>, Old Drift<\/em> by Namwali Serpell, and finally, The Quiet Violence of Dreams<\/em> by K. Sello Duiker.<\/p>\n

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Name a character from an African novel that you could rewrite as a different gender, and why.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart<\/em> as a woman. I reckon her treatment of son, Nwoye, would have been different AND she would not have had Ikemefuna\u2019s death on her conscience in the patriarchal world she lived in.<\/p>\n

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What two things should every teenager understand about mental health?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just as one seeks help when the body is unwell, it is equally important to seek help and take time out when one is feeling mentally unwell, and, mental illness is not something to be ashamed of.<\/p>\n

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What is your vision for the Black Body?<\/strong><\/p>\n

That it is not so easy to disrespect and violate worldwide but that it\u2019s treated as an equal to any other colour body.<\/p>\n

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