José Luís Mendonça’s Metamorfoses do Elefante is the featured book for the series “Virtually Yours,” which runs on August 13, 2022. He will be moderated by Ondjaki. The event hosted by Goethe-Institut Namibia will run from 4pm GMT, 5pm WAT, 6pm CAT, and 7pm EAT.
Virtually Yours is a regional project of Goethe-Institut Sub Saharan Africa, a series of online discussions with contemporary authors from Africa. “Virtually Yours” aims to create an online platform for avid readers, writers, academics, publishers, agents, and anyone else interested in literature by writers from Africa. The series of online discussions held once a month has featured Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Oswalde Lewat, Niq Mhlongo, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Tendai Huchu, Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu Banda, Ondjaki, Ishmael Beah, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, Rémy Ngamije, and Nadifa Mohamed.
This month’s guest is José Luís Mendonça who share his public life among literature, university teaching, journalism and cultural activism for the promotion of books and reading. His book as Metamorfoses do Elefante is a literary gem: legends, dreams, nightmares, metaphors and a creative use of language that evoke the art of Mia Couto.
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