Bridport
Open Book Festival
Find out what's on the programme
here
Also
Bridport
Literary Festival (still plenty going on, Nov 11, 12, 13 I think I might go to listen to Kwasi Kwarteng:
Kwasi Kwarteng
Ghosts of Empire
Britain's Legacies in the Modern World
Kwasi Kwarteng was born in London to Ghanaian parents. He was recently elected as the Member of Parliament for Spelthorne in Surrey. In this, his first book, THE GHOSTS OF EMPIRE, he gives a powerful new revision of the realities of the British Empire from its inception to its demise, questioning the nature of its glory and cataloguing both the inadequacies of its ideas and the short-termism of its actions. In conversation with David Prysor-Jones
Saturday 12 November 2:30pm
Tickets: £8.00
The Bull Hotel - Ballroom
And don't forget Eype's
Book 'n Author Festival.
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I shall be intrigued to learn what Kwarteng can add to Chinua Achebe's great novel Things Fall Apart published in 1958...not to mention a mainstream canon of imperial critique that I was taught in youth at Westminster and which was no doubt at the core of Kwarteng's education many years later at Eton. Sounds like very well worked ground but let's see...
ReplyDeleteI'll let you know. A journalist friend says the book is extremely interesting, and offers some new angles.
ReplyDeleteI must re-read Things Fall Apart. The book which I admired most when I was living in East Africa was 'Song of Lawino' by Okot p'Bitek.
Thanks for that.
ReplyDeleteVery articulate presentation. The basic thesis seems to be that anarchistic individualism was the root cause of later instability.
ReplyDeleteThere wasn't much central or strategic control. Individuals were allowed to get on with the job. Policies were therefore inconsistent and could change radically when one colonial official left and a new broom came on the scene.