Growing Up African in Australia

Sat 7 Sep 2019

Maxine Beneba Clarke + Sara El Sayed

Auditorium 2, State Library of Queensland

Panel

7145

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Hear from authors in this new volume that tells the stories of the African diaspora in Australia with passion, power and poise.

#Artists

Maxine Beneba Clarke

Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of over 14 books for adults and children, including the ABIA and Indie award-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the critically acclaimed, bestselling memoir The Hate Race, the self-illustrated picture book When We Say Black Lives Matter, and the CBCA Honour Book The Patchwork Bike (illustrated by Van T Rudd). Her poetry collections include Carrying the World, How Decent Folk Behave, It’s the Sound of the Thing: 100 new poems for young people and Stuff I'm Not Sorry For: 99 more poems for young people.

Sara El Sayed

Sara El Sayed is a writer based in Meanjin (Brisbane). In 2020 she received a Queensland Writers Fellowship, and was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award. Her debut memoir, Muddy People, is out now.

#Moderator

Kathomi Gatwiri

Dr. Kathomi Gatwiri is the author of “African Womanhood and Incontinent Bodies” and an award winning community educator, activist and lecturer from Kenya, currently residing in Australia. Dr. Gatwiri is a social worker and psychotherapist who holds a First Class Honours in Social Work from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and a Master’s in Counselling and Psychotherapy from the Cairnmillar Institute in Melbourne.She has completed a PhD with an interdisciplinary thesis entitled 'African womanhood, Health, Sexuality & Incontinent Bodies. In 2017, Gatwiri was named Young Kenyan of the Year by the Kenya Association of South Australia for her achievements and service in the African community in Australia. She is a regular contributor in SBS, and in the conversation on topics of race, feminism and immigration.