At skrive i løvernes og bjergenes land

Time: Thursday 18th November at 15:15 – 17:00 hours

Venue: Centre of African studies, Købmagergade 46, 4.sal., Aud. 12, Kbn K

No admission – all are welcome

Organizer: CAS

Brian James is a Sierra Leonean short-story writer, screen writer and poet, and the 2010 Guest Writer at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden.

Time: Thursday 18th November at 15:15 – 17:00 hours

Venue: Centre of African studies, Købmagergade 46, 4.sal., Aud. 12, Kbn K

No admission – all are welcome

Organizer: CAS

Brian James is a Sierra Leonean short-story writer, screen writer and poet, and the 2010 Guest Writer at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden.

He has won a number of local short story and poetry competitions and is a recipient of the Sierra Leone Pen’s Most Promising Writer award. He holds a degree in Mass Communication.

His publications include the short stories: On the Road to Godiva’ (2005), Devils at the Door (2008) and Simple Economics (2009). He is based in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he also works as a consultant editor and documentary film maker.

Brian James will talk about how he got started in writing and what it has meant/means to be a writer in Sierra Leone. He will then offer a reading from one of his published short stories. There will be time for a discussion with him about his work.

The title for this event – Writing in the Land of Lions and Mountains – is evoked by the fact that Sierra Leone means ‘Lion Mountains’