Event overview
Join us for a mid-way reception on Tuesday 10 April, 5-8pm. Irenosen Okojie will read Gunk and Vegas from her collection, Speak Gigantular.
My father told me very, very early in my life that why my third Ibo name is Nnenna –father’s mother, was because I am his come back, mother. It was said that when my father’s mother was dying, she had promised my father that she would come again, this time as his daughter.
- Buchi Emecheta, date unknown, from archive
Buchi Emecheta was a powerful and complex Nigerian British writer, teacher, mother, library worker and feminist. She wrote prolifically and defied easy categorization. She is loved by many: Womanists read her fierce motherhood and solidarity. Feminists, her bold representation of the personal political. Queer readers have picked up on her strong community making. She is proudly held up as a writer of both Nigerian and Black British identity and has inspired many contemporary postcolonial writers. She spent her life demonstrating how she is many things. The tensions, refusals and stands shoot through her novels, plays and critical writing.
This showing is in fragments and centers on Buchi Emecheta’s personal archive: books, manuscripts, plays, personal letters, publishers letters, notebooks, ephemera, essays, newspapers and unpublished material.
The exhibition comback mother: Buchi Emecheta will be installed durationally in parts unfolding between Thursday 5 April and Thursday 19 April.
comeback mother: Buchi Emecheta is co-organised by Halima Haruna and Jessa Mockridge in collaboration with Buchi Emecheta Foundation, Goldsmiths Library and supported by Goldsmiths Alumni & Friends Fund. With a very big thanks for all kinds of shaping, support and care from Sylvester Onwordi, Nadine Plummer, Angelique Golding, Althea Greenan and Laura Elliott.
Dates & times
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10 Apr 2018 |
5:00pm - 8:00pm (Exhibition installed 5th - 19th April - mid-way reception 10th April) |
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