Windham-Campbell Festival: Richard Wright's African Photographs
Sep
21
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library BRBL, Room 38-39
121 Wall Street, New Haven CT, 06511
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.
Speakers
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ernest Mitchell