Podcast of me in South Africa

During Poetry Africa in Durban last month, I met the multitalented and phenomenally energetic Victor Dlamini. He interviewed me for the Victor Dlamini Literary Podcast - one of the most enjoyable interviews I've ever done.

See the photos and listen to the podcast here.

Excerpt from the intro:

Shailja Patel has already added to our lexicon with the word “migritude” - which she coined for the title of her signature performance piece - but it is as a spoken-word theatre artist and poet that she truly seizes the imagination. Shailja brings to performance poetry a very strong sense of language and an uncanny ability to make historical connections that reverberate across the ages, linking what seems intensely personal with the overtly political.