Green Reads: We Are Each Other's Harvest
Green Reads: We Are Each Other's Harvest
Fri, Feb 17, 12:00 PM
Kathleen Clay Edwards Family Branch • Greensboro, NC
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An Evening with Nnedi Okorafor
Nigerian-American author of Africanfuturism , Nnedi Okorafor, will be the Friday night headliner for Greensboro Bound at UNC Greensboro.
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UNCG Elliott University Center , Cone Ballroom 508 Stirling Street Greensboro, NC 27412
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Nigerian-American author of Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism, Nnedi Okorafor,PhD, will be the Friday night headliner for Greensboro Bound Literary Festival.
Join us on the campus of UNC Greensboro in the Elliott University Center's Cone Ballroom for a book talk and interview with this phenomenal author! Admission is free, however, RSVP is a must as seating is limited.
Her works include WHO FEARS DEATH (in development at HBO into a TV series), the BINTI novella trilogy, THE BOOK OF PHOENIX, the AKATA books and LAGOON. She is the winner of Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus and Lodestar Awards and her debut novel ZAHRAH THE WINDSEEKER won the prestigious Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature. Her next novel, IKENGA, will be in stores August 2020.
Nnedi has also written comics for Marvel, including BLACK PANTHER: LONG LIVE THE KING and WAKANDA FOREVER (featuring the Dora Milaje) and the SHURI series, an Africanfuturist comic series LAGUARDIA (from Dark Horse) and her short memoir BROKEN PLACES AND OUTER SPACES. Nnedi is also cowriter the adaptation of Octavia Butler’s WILD SEED with Viola Davis and Kenyan film director Wanuri Kahiu.
