Stockholm's International Poetry Festival in October had a special focus on Kenyan women poets. and Shailja Patel shared poems and reflections on 'Literature and independence in Kenya' at the festival's headline seminar. The audience represented a sizeable contingent of Africans based in Stockholm, including Okoth Osewe, whose Kenya Stockholm Blog is the go-to resource for all things Kenyan in Sweden. Osewe videotaped portions of the seminar, and has generously made them available to the public.
Watch the seminar on YouTube:
Part I: Introduction by Madeleine Grieve, director of the Stockholm International Poetry Festival, and Ngwatilo's richly melodic poem on exile, belonging, identity, goat meat....
Part II: Shailja Patel performs 'Offering', which first appeared in Pambazuka News.
Part III: Discussion on the Kenya crisis and post-election violence.
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