Date of Lecture: February 15, 2018
About the Speaker: Petina Gappah is an international lawyer and writer from Zimbabwe. She is author of the award winning short story collection "An Elegy for Easterly" (2009), the novel "The Book of Memory" (2015), and "Rotten Row" (2016), a collection of short stories on modern day Zimbabwe.
About the Talk: Dr. Gappah shares from her current book project, a novel about the companions of explorer Dr. David Livingstone who carried his body across Africa over nine months so he could be buried in his homeland.
The talk is co-sponsored with Africana Studies.