Sunday 29 July 2018

Titans in conversation: James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe discuss history, art, politics

(James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe: … African Atlantic discourses, University of Florida, Gainesville, 9 April 1980…)
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

THURSDAY 2 August 2018 is the 94th birthday of James Baldwin – novelist, essayist, commentator, dramatist, arguably African America’s leading writer and intellectual during its age of freedom affirmation, 1950s-1990s. 

As part of this week’s commemoration of the birthday, re-thinkingafrica here reissues that Baldwin’s historic conversation with Chinua Achebe, Father of African Literature (University of Florida, Gainesville, 9 April 1980), originally published by brainpickings.

...Reflections on history, art, politics, brainpickings, 22 September 2014,
(https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/09/21/james-baldwin-chinua-achebe-art/), accessed 28 September 2014.
(Sam Rivers Quartet, “Ellipsis” [personnel: Rivers, tenor saxophone; Jaki Byard, piano; Ron Carter, bass; Tony Williams, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US, 11 December 1964])
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