Virtually Yours #16 Yara Nakahanda Monteiro
A series of online discussions - Virtual Gatherings - with Goethe Medal laureate Zukiswa Wanner, exploring contemporary African literature with authors.
" Loose Ties" is a stirring and colourful story in which the shadows of an uncertain and changing past are felt.
Victoria grew up in Portugal with her grandparents and bears the marks of a trauma she cannot overcome: She never knew her mother, who was an Angolan freedom fighter.
Her book is both a love story and a war story, a contemporary narrative confronting the past, a call for women's independence as political beings. And of her own body in search of freedom.
In her own words, she is a great-great-granddaughter of slavery, a great-granddaughter of miscegenation, a granddaughter of independence and a daughter of the diaspora.
If you missed the live broadcast you can watch the recording here>