Carnival of Stars: A Song for Sonia Sanchez with Ndirangu Wachanga, Phd

1 Quinlan Street,Lynchburg VA 24503

10 May, 2022

Description

Documentary screening about Sonia Sanchez and discussion with Kenyan scholar Ndirangu Wachanga, Phd Globally known as a documentarist, Wachanga’s projects are as archival as they are cultural and social activism. To archive is to memorialize. As a memory worker, he has interviewed various African intellectuals and writers: From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1986), Wole Soyinka to Ngugi wa Thiong’o; from Micere Mugo to Ama Ata Aidoo; from Angela Davis to Sonia Sanchez; from Carole Boyce Davis to Tsitsi Dangarembga; from Simon Gikandi to Ali Mazrui; from Njabulo Ndebele to Keorapetse Kgositsile; from Manthia Diawara to Abena P.A. Busia; from Tsisti Jaji to Sisonke Msimang to Mukoma wa Ngugi to Otoniya Okot Bitek. Wachanga’s project recognizes that memory informs as it troubles debates about the nature of the postcolonial state in Africa. By examining biographies of intellectuals, Wachanga’s projects are an invitation to resist the urge of forgetting.