KLF Director at Ubud Writers And Readers Festival, Bali




Shalini Gidoomal - Ubud Writers And Readers Festival
Date:2008-10-22	Duration: 00:07:07 Size: 2.83 MB
Synopsis: Shalini Gidoomal is a freelance journalist, writer, businesswoman and inveterate traveller, born, and currently living in Nairobi. She has worked extesively on various UK and international magazines and newspapers.

Click HERE to visit the Ubud Writers Festival website

Pambazuka Special: The Writer in a time of crises

With over 1000 contributors and an estimated 500,000 readers Pambazuka News is the authoritative pan African electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa providing cutting edge commentary and in-depth analysis on politics and current affairs, development, human rights, refugees, gender issues and culture in Africa.

“Pambazuka News has been featuring more and more African writing. We are therefore especially pleased to bring you this special issue on KLF and some of the broader issues surrounding the political and aesthetic concerns of the younger generation of African writers.”

Special Features this week include:
Mukoma Wa Ngugi - African writing in our time

Binyavanga Wainaina: The writer in a time of crisis

Is the pen mightier than a machete? - Arno Kopecky

Putting on the Kwani Lit Fest - Shalini Gidoomal

Special thanks to the Pambazuka team and especially Firoze Manji.