Kevin Okoth
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first heard Jul 2026
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You also hosted a screening of some of the Star Wars films.
Yeah, I mean, they're fantastic.
And it's also being able to see them restored is really, really great.
And I think it also points to something you do discuss in the book.
It's just the difficulty of how much of this archive is accessible, how much of it is lost, how much of it do we need to kind of restore in order to kind of exhibit again or...
Just even to, yeah, be for ourselves again.
And I think that's kind of what it brings.
It really brings that question out because I think as far as I'm aware, most of her films are lost, right?
Towards the end of the book, you kind of turn to more contemporary subjects for your kind of analysis.
One of the writers you discuss is the Kenyan author, Binyavanga Wainaina, and his infamous essay, How to Write About Africa, which was published in Grata in 2005.
I just wanted to ask, and at other points in the collection, you discuss kind of a different era of African writing, which is exemplified by the Heinemann African Writers Series, for example, which is a very different kind of writing.
I wondered if you could talk a little bit about how you've observed the changes in kind of both African writing and publishing since you first started writing about literature.
Yeah, and it's also an interesting thing of just, I like the contrast that you have between those two kind of moments, but then it's also kind of gesturing forward a little bit.
It's perhaps even that moment, not over, but are we perhaps thinking about colonialism more again, where they might have been not so keen to talk about it in that way, but now living in a very particular like harsh new colonial kind of moment, a moment of aggressive imperialism.
It kind of has come back to the fore.
So some of that older kind of literature has also...
become much more relevant again.
Yeah, I think there's plenty still to talk about in the collection, so I'm hoping we can kind of get some questions going as well.
Perhaps, I mean, we'll see what the questions come up, but perhaps we can still talk about kind of your essay on John O'Confor as well.
But I think let's open it up, I think, to the audience to see what people would like to ask each other.
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