Showing posts with label Mail & Guardian newspaper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mail & Guardian newspaper. Show all posts

Friday, August 30, 2013

Achebe’s Children: Africa’s Suspended Revolutions



 

      













You Are Cordially Invited To Join
WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS and the  
Mail & Guardian
on Friday 30 August 18:00 for 19:00

At the Opening event of the 4th Annual M&G Literary Festival

Adam Habib, the new vice-chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand, 
 will confront the main topic in the festival’s keynote address: South Africa’s
 suspended revolution.
Habib’s new book, South Africa’s Suspended Revolution: Hopes and Prospects 
 (Wits University Press), argues that “individuals and institutions can, with
 imagination, act against the grain of a given historical moment and transform 
the options available to society”.

Habib will also participate in a discussion on Saturday 31 Aug as part of the 
M&G Literary Festival with Hlumelo Biko and Adriaan Basson
 (see below for details)

When: Friday 30 August 2013 at 18:00 for 19:00

Where: The Market Theatre
Cnr Bree and Miriam Makeba
Newtown, Johannesburg
GPS Coordinates
-26.200845,28.03256