Her Excellency Professor Abena P. A. Busia interviewed Bernardine Evaristo, author of the 2019 Booker Prize-winning Girl,Woman, Other, during the 3rd Kwame Nkrumah Festival at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. Themed “Pan Africanism, Feminism, and the Next Generation: Liberating the Cultural Economy”, the festival was held from 15 to 24 September 2021.
H.E. Abena Busia (APAB): Hello everybody and thank you for joining us, wherever in the world you’re joining us from. My name is Abena Busia. I am a Ghanaian, very proud to be so, a Ghanaian writer and poet, and currently Ghana’s ambassador to Brazil. I am very, very honoured today, however, to be part of this festival and to interview a friend of mine, an extraordinary woman herself who today is best known for co-winning the 2019 Booker Prize with her eighth book, Girl,Woman, Other, making her the first Black woman to win it. But for some of us, her reputation preceded that.
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