Jun 22, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Centre for Stories

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This event will be taking place at the Centre for Stories. In order to ensure that social distancing requirements are met, capacity is limited to 8 people. RSVP is essential. Please do not RSVP if you are unsure of attendance.

AfroHeritage Book Club, run by Vuma Phiri and Gisele Ishimwe, is a meeting space for Africans in the diaspora (living outside of the African continent). Here, we connect Africans living in Australia with literature (and other relevant bodies of artwork) created by Africans. By engaging with popular (and less known) literature from the African continent, our members will leave feeling connected to stories of their heritage as we discuss and share what we are getting out of what we are reading.

We want to see the world through African lenses in the hopes of stirring up our creativity in the content we all create in our world. Any poets, writers, musicians, social media content creators will be able to garner inspiration from the literature we read and discuss. Innovative thinkers and dreamers will have a space to engage with others who desire to build our homeland and continue to build Australia as it grows multiculturally.

Topically, we will cover integration, migration, resettlement, multiculturalism, race, diaspora politics, African history, the impact of colonisation, neo-colonisation, rebuilding African nations, expanding the single story narrative.

This week’s text is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.

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  Vuma Phiri

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  As a young woman living in Perth, Vuma has always found herself engaging with the stories around her as a form of entertainment, learning and to gain empathy. Her life began in storytelling, from the origin of her name, to living with parents who collect novels to add to their bookshelves at home. Migrating to Australia at the age of 7, Vuma has always felt disconnected to the stories from her home country, Zambia, and from the African continent overall. Vuma created her Instagram book account, @diaspora_reader, in 2019, to share reviews and recommendations for books she has read. In deciding she wants to read more from African authors, Vuma is hoping to bring other avid readers alongside her, so we can learn and share the works of Africa’s finest writers.

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