…more than 400 writers, scholars and other peeps in the field of African American Literature— including two superstars, Jamaica Kincaid and Chimamanda Adichie— are right here in Macomb, at Western all week for a conference.
I’ve never read anything by Jamaica Kincaid, but I did read a short story last summer by Adichie, called “The Thing around Your Neck,” in the anthology the anthology THIS IS NOT CHICK LIT, and it totally rocked.
Right now, as I’m sitting in my cubicle eating my Starkist Lunch-to-Go, there is all kind of hubbub going on out in the Sherman Hall Auditorium, where there is apparently some kind of reception going on.
People from all over the world, right here in Forgotonia, discussing the 50th anniversary of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
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Is Shimmer Chinodya there, too?