Event time:
Wednesday, September 21, 2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (BRBL), Room 38-39
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
Tsitsi Dangarembga and Assistant Professor of English and Humanities Ernest Mitchell discuss the hundreds of black and white photographs Richard Wright took in 1953 during a ten-week visit to West Africa to research his book Black Power (1954), an account of the Gold Coast’s transition to the independent nation of Ghana.
Additional event details:
Speaker/Performer:
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ernest Mitchell