Free the Word! SA PEN Event – 4th December 2014, Johannesburg

Free the Word! at the Orbit
Thursday 4th December 2014 7.30pm – 8.30pm
Orbit Jazz Club, 81 De Korte Street, Johannesburg, Gauteng

Mandla Langa, Beatrice Lamwaka, Makhosazana Xaba and Masande Ntshanga in conversation with Michele Magwood.

PEN International, South African PEN, and the University of Witwatersrand are delighted to invite you for an evening of readings, discussion, and debate in Johannesburg’s celebrated jazz venue The Orbit.

Beatrice Lamwaka (Uganda), Mandla Langa (South Africa), Makhosazana Xaba (S.A.) and Masande Ntshanga (S.A.) will be reading extracts from their latest novels and poetry collections and discussing their work with Michele Magwood, Contributing Books Editor for the Sunday Times and host of TMLive Book Show.

The authors will also examine the role of contemporary novelists in bearing witness to social change in Africa and the tensions between the pressure to act as social commentators and their own creative expression.

The event will be free to the public.

RSVP to Dinesh.balliah@wits.ac.za