Harry Garuba Celebrates 50TH Birthday @ Jazz Hole in Lagos, Nigeria

GLENDORA READING: HARRY GARUBA SPEAKS AT THE JAZZHOLE, 168 AWOLOWO RD., IKOYI, LAGOS, NIGERIA.4:00pm THURSDAY‏

Professor Harry Garuba to celebrate his 50th birthday will be reading at the Jazz Hole in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday March 27, 2008.

Here is a YouTube video of Dr. Harry Garuba speaking at an event.



Dr. Harry Garuba a Professor in the Centre for African Studies and Department of English of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, is internationally reputed for his innovative and ground-setting scholarship in the fields of Cultural Studies/Theory, Literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora, and Performance Studies/Discourse Analysis. A poet of note who has been described as having “a disposition for the tender and philosophical”, and whose collection, Shadows and Dreams heralded a new moment in its “alluring lyricism” and “introspective depth”, he taught at the University of Ibadan from the 1980s through to the 1990s – remarkable periods in Nigerian history and the flowering of African literature. At Ibadan, Garuba served as a mentor to an entire generation of writers, artistes and scholars, whose articulations coalesced into voices from the fringe, a movement that altered the dominant perceptions of arts and aesthetics.

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