Growing Up African in Australia
Maxine Beneba Clarke + Sara El Sayed
Auditorium 2, State Library of Queensland
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#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.
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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.
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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.
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