Event: Literature and Activism in the Equatorial Guinean Diaspora (Boston, 28 March)

By Africa in Words on 13 March , 2019 • ( 0 )

Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
At Boston University
28 March

Equatoguinean writer Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel embarked on an unexpected hunger strike in February 2011 to protest the repression of civil liberties in Equatorial Guinea. Now exiled in Barcelona, Spain, Ávila Laurel continues using his literary work to denounce the second dictatorial regime established in 1979.

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Image courtesy of Boston University

Laurel’s latest book, The Gurugu Pledge, translated into English by Jethro Soutar, is a novel dedicated to the migrations of Africans to Europe and offers a vision of an extended phenomena resulting from decolonization and dictatorships.

This public event is co-sponsored with the African American Studies Program and the Department of World Languages and Literatures.
Organizer: Boston University

Find more information here.

Date:
Thursday, March 28, 2019, 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location:
African Studies Center,
Boston University 232 Bay State Rd, Fl 5th,
Boston,
Massachusetts