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Literature course to bring University and community together
A free 8-week Literature and Creative Writing Course at Barton Hill Settlement starts on February 21. It is a collaboration between the Somali Resource Centre and the University of Bristol, and will look at the literatures of the Horn of Africa.
The course will offer an overview of the range of literatures produced by writers from the Horn of Africa and will look at how writers from this region and its diaspora have represented their experiences. The course will train participants on how to analyse texts and how best to explore and present their responses, as well as to think about the role literature plays in building identities and communities. By enrolling on this course, students will also build skills and experience in learning from and contributing to university-level seminar discussions.
The course will be run by Billy Kahora, a Kenyan writer and academic, who is a lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Bristol. He is the author of the non-fiction novella titled The True Story Of David Munyakei and has twice been shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing. He is also Managing Editor of Kenya’s leading literary publisher, Kwani Trust.
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Kahora says: “Literature and creative writing can provide great opportunities for collaboration between the University and different communities within the city – the course hopes to actualise this by bringing these literatures, the University and new Bristol communities into conversation with each other.”
On successful completion of the course, participants will be presented with a letter of recognition from the University of Bristol.
To register for the course, email Billy Kahora: [email protected]
Full information available at www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/arts/birtha/documents/Literatures%20of%20The%20Horn%20Flyer%20Feb%202018.pdf
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