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i as of the ok, welcome to the strain bin yeah, banga y, nina was a celebrated canyon journalists, writer and activist. he died in 2019848, but a new anthology of his work is now out. it was published in september. it is code how to write about africa. this anthology gives us an opportunity here on the stream to talk about been yeah, banga y, nina. as celebrated literary and legend. they tell us in school that when the missionaries came to came mailing and again, the bible and days behind them came been gotten and the power button. and i feel like the world of humanitarianism and aid in africa is designed to keep people passive, dependent, and allow power. here to talk about your anger,

we have millison show and yvonne tickets have all 3 of you with us. melissa. tell me your connection to be in your van. get, hello audience, your connection. introduce yourself to abuse around the world. thank you. my name is melissa, may now i happen to be his youngest sister, so he likes to say baby sister and i'm connecting from kenya to have you. i tell it's so lovely to have you on the stream wave. this is a new row for you, so sorry, sorry to have you re introduce yourself and tell audience your connection with the subject of today's episode of the st. louis to see if i'm problem. i'm in my dress india though i live in bangalore. i'm a writer and a public health activist. and my connection to this is that i edited the collection of short stories that we're going to talk about possibly because i had binders writing, but mostly because he was a very close friend of mine,

of the last 17 years my life. so i get to have you and yvonne, welcome to the street. please introduce yourself to audience around the world. tell them your connection to be in your van. go. why 9 or thank you very um. well, i'm yvonne at the amble war. i'm a writer. i'm connecting from nairobi, kenya. oh, be a van gar, was my friend, my brother, my mental i would not have entered into the world of writing if it had not been for him. i say good to have you. all right, so all of our guests have a story and have stories back. you have been of anger. why now? i'm sure you do to, why you like his writing. what would you like to ask about his writing? i g chip comment section. it's open right now, please do use it. be part of today's show. i'm actually going to ask you about the story about the 1st time that being ivank as writing got to be known beyond kenya. and that was something with

a cane africa literary prize. and he had an argument with the people who were running the prize because he wanted to put in a digital piece. and they told him what they said by love actually is exactly what i said. so who were with yeah, was in kenya, he had written this wonderful story, a memoir called discovery home, which was about returning from south africa today. now after a long period away, she had already written a little bit by that time and was semi famous. i would say i, he really wanted to enter the came prize. this newly instituted prize for african writing, instituted out of oxford university at the time. but he couldn't find it new to publish his writing except for a sock lived internet on the magazine called g. $21.00, which was run out of new orleans by a remarkable african american gold rod,

a mess who paid every contributor, $100.00, even though he himself was not very rich. he was just interested in literature. so being of anger, publish discovery, home in g 21 or just in time for the game, pro submissions sent it in at the immunity run back. it said, what are you doing? this is a senior surprised. we only accept serious writing and serious publications. and so he fired back to them and said, listen, over the last year, there's not been a single anthology of fiction or nonfiction, published on the african continent. where do you expect to get a dream from? cisco state elected the backtracked, he won the price. i said when of anger, he complain about some young and then he that's exactly what he wants. it won't go ahead and jump in the conversation. no, no, i'm saying that is that he that is vintage being of anger. i sometimes they used to call him dana, she kind of, you know, breaks down the imaginary barriers and, you know, barriers that do exist, but suddenly because he shows up,

they become imaginary. and it is that he's this characteristic i got to published a my award winning prize. i won the prize the yeah. to him simply because he was that being of anger being of anger for whom there, you know, there are no limitations. so yeah, that is vintage villanova, when this is reports and pictures of family pictures of you and your big brother, i'm gonna stop at one picture at festival because i want to work out which one is you? i think i know. and which one is your big brown? so let's have a look here. what are you wearing? melissa? say we can spot you. well on the tiny one at the front. oh goodness. and which would have been your banga? been your banga is 3rd from right in the so obviously next to my mom, he was my boy i, let's look at some more pictures because i'm wondering that often the way that people remember being of anger was the confidence and how creative he was. but as

a big brother, what are the qualities that you knew that maybe other people didn't? yeah, i mean, you know, he was larger than life to be very honest than he was very opinionated, sometimes too opinionated, but it was all in his way of love. that was his love language is love, language was all about living live being vivid. he's the one who made me go to my fast bar. he made me have my 1st drink. he's the one who dressed me up in high heels, hadn't. he would let me go and beat them fair? you know, my says days kind of hot. so that's typical of been vanguard for you. i'm going to bring in phone guy who we spoke to a few hours ago, and she remembered an extraordinary meeting, if in your vanka, this is her story, and then actually have a listen to the story. and i want to know the 1st time that you met in your anger,

his phone guy festival. i 1st met by the way, 992011 launch of his book in london. and so i kinda wanted to purchase a copy of the book, but once i got to the front of the line, all the copies had told alex he but he still baby to his agent and a copy of the book. you merge the final copy of the book you merged and he graciously offered it to me for 3 and auto draft it. and i think that's an example to me of what been stood for. and one was an intergenerational kind of conversation, bringing in younger people into conversations about narratives, about african shifting those narrative. i took, i had your 1st meeting i was primarily as a public health activist,

but i am a dormant writer. and at one point many years ago, i used to be able to do both things at once. and i wrote a series of articles with a friend of mine in janice book. i lived at the time i worked at a trade union on nightclubs in south african townships and also stripped ups in a city. jonathan, the colleague wrote it with with cameron rooney and living in jo, bug who's now a benedictine monk in rome. so sort of unbelievable all around. we didn't think anyone would be interested in the stories and then i got an email out of the blue from being a friend of ours had been trying to connect that. and so i think he knew, but i think he might have literally been the one person in the world who read of stories, items he had already knew how to write about africa at that time. so was minus and every day i was hearing from and i was delighted,

i met him to the hot tendonitis state and then subsequently in london. and the 1st thing that i, i recognized instantly when i met him, i think is that this is going to be a dangerous relationship for the lack of sleep. just we had so much to say to each other so much to say that i knew unless i, you know, i left to extricate my pattern that i might never sleep when i, when i meet him and i would prepare my actually for days and weeks of sleep listen, every time i met him because it just seemed like we had too much to talk about. and it was literally almost to the point of being dangerous, but it was just underneath, i've never, i've never met anyone like that. i think where i instantly known, but i could talk to him for the rest of my life without being bored. if there was one conversation that comes back to you, sometimes when you miss someone and you think, oh, that was that one time when we talked about this, what is the conversation that comes back to you? i show that, you know, you stayed out way too late. to have that you will never forget. this is

a very strange one in 2014 because i wrote an ethical i am a homosexual mom which is not in the collection that you holding your hand for me because the, the collection that you hold is the 1st half is back in korea. and this is full volume to whenever that comes out. but this was and said that, that stunned the world he wrote it published it in african magazines in africa and africa, the country. and it really stop the world in its tracks. it was quite amazing. but the night before that we had a conversation for about 8 hours on paganism and spirituality and homosexuality. something that i was interested in and he was very interested in . it was the most profound conversation that we never had, i think on something serious because we didn't often get to talk about the

interesting but it was eye opening in a way for me. and for him, we both been interested in this but hadn't actually discussed it with each other because we thought we were, i think both a little embarrassed about it. honestly. what that be because recently decided to let all the was down and talk about it and it was fantastic. and i went to sleep at sort of 4 in the morning and then somehow he also found the time to write. i'm a homosexual mom. publish it to the game. it was even a human being. i have no idea how he did it wrong. when i, i was reading this and full a day of been of anger as early work. what occurred to me was that he was writing for africans. he didn't explain things like i was reading part of this and i was in job but and he, i was he can pap quite often go back and there was a lot of been this book and he doesn't tell you what it is. and if you don't know, you have to go and find out, but there are lots of little like treasures and gems that as an african, as

a canino in the south african when i jerry and that you appreciate that he is writing for us for africa. the canyons, he's writing us. and if you're not sure what it is sometimes explains it. sometimes he doesn't. i you love that. how about you? you know what be no dead for us or is it beyond just the writing? he exploded the space a kind of the literary burdening that you saw on the continent was primarily because of the, the madness and craziness of the bigness of this earth. this daring and unusual and an absolutely loving human being. and he's a, he inhabited the continent in the, in the right to his marrow or without apology. and the idea of story is we'll see in, not only ourselves, but using story to see the world and, and speak,

speak back to the world, but speak the world in, in, in this, in the, you know, to use his own words in this kind of a book independent creative and, and a 3 kind of way. you know, i, i don't think we will ever be able to do enough justice to the meaning of what he provided for us. like just simply telling a story. and by simply showing the fact that the story is we needed to tell whether, you know, we're all stories, you know, when, when, when, when, when quantity 1st emerge, a lot of the, the gatekeepers referred to our generation as naval gazes because we're writing about ourselves. we're reflecting about ourselves, we were, you know, you know, reflecting on the landscapes about being that will be on the, the, you know, the particular narratives that were, you know,

unfortunately floating all over the world. and i think, i think it was because of the kind of we felt kind of shielded unprotected by just just the strange isn't model that will be no longer. and connie, if you look on my laptop here, is did 2 online resort for writers. and this is something that when you have anger set out with his prize money from the came prize, i'm going to read this out here, melissa, get your brother cook coconut milk. i was not expecting to find recipes like properties. in an anthology, split coconut in hoff remove coke, not water. that aside, remove flesh from shell. he writes about food as beautifully as he writes about. life in africa, shipped his brother cook. i'm guessing he kicked because he loved fate. he was magic in the kitchen. i actually remember one time, my folks were on

a trip and we had run out of the flies as sibling sometimes do. i think we had like half a loaf of bread like my 2 or noon. and i keep saying that he made this amazing salad which actually included curry powder and sold it. but i remember very horrified periods calling long distance. i'm hearing about the salad we had which was filled with white bread. so to carry out that, but yeah, he could, he could cook with any kind of ingredients and i think he even took it up as that as a challenge. can i make anything with these look like that? of these foods that are hanging in my, me buzz, you know, tree and garden. so yeah, he was a fantastic cook, but it was also just, he's his way of creating beauty. he, he, he, he was really good at creating anything he did anything. he touched,

he was all about centering that around our african stories. he was very good at giving us the mundane african, everyday life. just giving us some kind of vitality and vividness. and i think that's what the vote was saying was quite magical, hoping us also just connect with our them so, so in a sense of identity that so often has been taken away from us or spoken for us in many ways that are also they, denny green, us and put us down and he has a way of just bringing it back and language for him was my theory. he stretched it and made it into what it is he needed to be to communicate that beauty. i am going to bring in a new voice. if on you go 1st go 2nd. yes i have to leave. i'm melissa. love what you have said you, he will. you will be new. wrangell was vulnerable to beauty in

a way that i find very few people in the world to be and vulnerability to beauty. made him look at us and look at, look at especially look at the africa as, as particularly, and spectacularly beautiful. and, and, and to use story and language and words to him to create an entire glossary of our particular beauty which allowed him then to you know, you know, throw back the ugliness that the ugly words that had been directed at our particular wonderfulness. at the create of those particular those particular ideas. yeah. yeah. he was a man absolutely vulnerable to beauty. yeah. i'm going to bring in the writer here, lorenzo talks about how she was inspired by the way,

been your van guest saw the world. this is what she told us earlier. i remember the 1st time and contact his work. i was reading, where needs him kinda into an content. and there was so much coverage. emotion. any g a is the way you communicate the way through. busy about and above that, right, when i became a trouble, right. and i knew that i would start writing books about africa. i was very intentional about ensuring that i do not write for me lenses. you are a type that was very intentional about infusing humor and energy and emotion into my own writing. so that the way that i represent africa would really be genuine and authentic. i tell. so that's the legacy, right there on you. like we, we all that already knows for us that the fact that we want to be better at writing because of the way that been your banga wrote,

that is your legacy right there. actual, i know you've got ready something for us because this anthology is called how to write about africa, which is more in the general sense because many of anger wrote about africa in such an extraordinary way. but he also went viral before viral was really insane with an article which is sarcastic and complained about how africa was often portrayed it got. it went so vital that people study to tap in your banga. have you seen the article? how to write about african harry like i run days. would you know, would you read a little bit of it because every time i hear it, every time i see bits of it, i say, i say, oh my goodness, this is still relevant. agile. the the honest place i love to thank you. sorry i just have to get this off my screen here. second, please never have a picture of

a well adjusted african on the cover of your book or in it. unless that african has won the nobel prize. and e k. 47 prominent ribs naked breast use these if you must include an african and make sure you get one in marcell zulu doggone dress in your text, treat africa as if it was one country. it is hot and dusty. it is hot and i'm so sorry. it is hot and dusty with rolling grasslands and huge herds of animals. and dalton, people who are starving or it's hot and steamy with very shocked people who eat primate don't get bogged down with details or precise descriptions. africa, big, 54 countries, 900000000 people who are too busy starving and dying, and worrying and emigrating to reachable still, i will still like when nothing but when laughing for as he has because that is still so true is something that seek who mentioned as we were talking about being of anger and his legacy in this particular article that everybody knows enough so

much. yes, yes. they see that he wrote how to write about africa and they said that she wrote decades back is that it still sort of entity as it was at the time he wrote it. but also it's relevant not just for global media coverage of the continent, but africa, media coverage to the same sewer tapes. i'd preview in global news media stud tend to domine, to uba news media on the continent. and this points to a big challenge, which is actually that of money and power and influence because african media houses are usually under funded in to the extent where they need to replace it to rely on global media houses for their coverage. and when i am thinking of a time when being of anger came on to the stream, this is back in 2015 and we were all so excited and we were doing a show about things that you don't really appreciate about the african continent. before i play a clip, i think it's really important for us to just stop for a moment and just appreciate how much he was

a stuart of other people's writing. how has spent time and nurtured them and encouraged them. and he did that to you. can you very briefly tell us how he encouraged you to? right? i he, he saw me as a writer long before i recognize myself as that. i wrote the 1st to the 1st work of fiction that i ever produced, the weight of whispers, which ended up winning, but the 2003 came prize. i actually wrote it to get being of anger, of my back. all right? yes. all right, so you ready to get off if that. and so he was there he was, there was your mentor. so in 2015, i asked being of anger, very specific question because whatever he's reading that would be good for us to read as well. let's have a listen to that entity back in 2015. at this time will be crazy growth and increase on an invention. i think it's very, very important that we spend more time listening to ourselves and telling ourselves

our own story, right? so being of anger a, if you could recommend one book fry international audience to read what would be that one book dust, but even the war it was my favorite novel asked the nice didn't even that i never write or called the one or wrote a great novel called dust, i have been away that you will cry, you will laugh again. you will love you will love ah ah, he knew ah doesn't i just some something of anger. why 9 or up better? that's a long we have ah, we have, i'm going to let you you bring that in of i read it because he wasn't always polite about your work. the 1st time you showed you his work. he said it was,

was not good. ha ha. but he is, i'm going to set some vocabulary to say that young people who are watching right now actual very quickly, we've got 30 seconds to do this. what do you think that been your rank a still now can communicate to young africans in a single sentence? what would that be bigger road better than anyone else? because he lived better than anyone else? honestly. all right, so she's not on the way. yeah. so a young audience who's watching right now, which of answers very that was a question that you had answered to ask you, just going to live better than anyone else. you've been talking about being of anger y, nina, and the anthology, how to write about africa. and he's now in bookstore. enjoy. ah, ah.

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