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Film, Video Author Makena Onjerika

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Title

  • Author Makena Onjerika

Summary

  • Kenyan writer Makena Onjerika spoke about her life and work. The event was co-sponsored by the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa, the Caine Prize for African Writing, the Center for African Studies at Howard University, the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and the Department of English at Georgetown University.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2019-03-14.

Notes

  • -  Classification: Language and Literature.
  • -  Makena Onjerika.
  • -  Recorded on 2019-03-14.
  • -  Author Makena Onjerika is winner of the 2018 Caine Prize for African Writing, an annual literary award for the best original short story by an African writer, whether in Africa or elsewhere, published in the English language.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024696386

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division. Author Makena Onjerika. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-14, 2019. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696386/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division, S. B. (2019) Author Makena Onjerika. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-14. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696386/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. African And Middle Eastern Division. Author Makena Onjerika. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -03-14, 2019. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2024696386/>.