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Friday, June 13, 2008

Nordic Africa Institute Guest Writer 2009

is me! I've just been named the 2009 Guest Writer at the Nordic Africa Institute. I'll be in residence at the Institute, in Uppsala, Sweden, from April to June 2009.

The programme has previously hosted two guest writers, Ama Ata Aidoo from Ghana (one of my writing heros!), and Gabeba Baderoon from South Africa. Nigerian writer, Tolu Ogunlesi, is 2008's Guest Writer.

NAI is really an institute for research in the social sciences. The raison d'ĂȘtre behind the guest writer grant is:

the conviction that knowledge of Africa is not gained only from social science analysis and facts. Literature and the arts can significantly add another language and meaning, and illustrate the diversity of the continent. The purpose of the grant is three-fold:

Firstly, to provide an opportunity to sit and write, away from daily chores (YESSS!!!) teaching or other (the Nordic Africa Institute is also not a teaching institution);

Secondly, to make possible readings to audiences in Sweden, and one or two other Nordic countries by visits to those countries;

Thirdly, to add by their presence to the intellectual and cultural atmosphere of the Nordic Africa Institute with its researchers and other staff, guests, guest researchers and scholarship students.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Tolu Ogunlesi said...

Congrats Shailja!

6/15/2008 12:02 PM  
Blogger shailja said...

Thanks, Tolu :-)

6/15/2008 9:28 PM  
Blogger rayo said...

wow, congratulations to u. hope u'll take us thru ur experience as Tolu did on his blog.

12/26/2008 11:29 AM  
Blogger shailja said...

Thanks Rayo. I'll definitely be blogging about it, right here. Check back often, for daily lists of my new Swedish vocabulary :-)

12/27/2008 11:19 AM  

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