Reading Diaspora / Reading Migration - is an interactive web project that responds to the voices of poets from Ghana and the Ghanaian Diaspora. The project was created by Catherine Pearce (concept and project director) and Rose Rouhani (interaction …
Ghanaian writers
Reading Migration / Reading Diaspora Launch – October 30, 2022
Sunday, October 20, 202210am (Pacific Time) Vancouver Black Library (268 Keefer Street, Basement Floor) and on-line Light Factory Publications (LFP) is excited to partner with Vancouver Black Library (VBL) to launch "Reading Migration / …
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Ghanaian Reading
Writers involved in the partnership project with Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) appeared at an online event hosted by Richmond Public Library (Richmond, BC, Canada) on November 27, 2021. To ensure that no one was lost during …
EVENT: RML at Richmond Public Library (November 27, 2021)
Join us for this in-person and online event in which Ghanaian writers and artists from the 2020/21 Reading the Migration Library (RML) Series will read and discuss the work they have recently produced. A Q&A with the writers will follow the …
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On Loss: Two Poems from Ghana
The poems included in On Loss describe the subjective impact on the writers of Ghanaian patterns of migration. In the first poem, A.B. Godfreed refuses to carry within herself "so many false divisions" of dual Asante and British identities. The …