A conversation with Ashanti Dinah Orozco

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ladies and gentlemen thank you very much for tuning in to the Africa multiple cluster of Excellence at the University of biroid today it's our pleasure to receive here with us Ashanti Dina Orozco Airport from Barranquilla in Colombia but also a student for studying PhD at the University of Harvard in the U.S Ashanti has published a collections of poems and her most prominent work is la semias de Montu and at the same time she has also published a very numerous articles on the theme of African diaspora as africanity in general so today we are going to have a discussion with Ashanti on her poetry on her world view about the African diaspora and about the African dashboard memory and the connection with the continent so actually I have a few questions for you so we're going to have this dialogue for 20 minutes and I will begin with a very simple question for every writer the question why do you write is quite simple but I've noticed uh doing research in Latin America for a number of years now that it's this question is not as simple as it is yeah because of the historical uh situation of the African diaspora so let me ask you why do you write okay good morning today is a pleasure to be here with the invitation of my brother uh gave me okay I'm so glad to be here in Germany this is the first time I I can't hear in Europe so it was a great trip it was a great travel to cross the oceans and to be here um this is a very important question that signifies myself as a African women and from the diaspora you know what I mean it's very important to locate myself into a meaning of a standpoint that I'm I consider myself um as a writers who concerns about the African philosophy traditions as a practitioner of Santeria palomayombe and whose worries about all these ancestors uh foreign of symbols that you know that protect myself so I'm writing to discuss uh my place of being in the world that needs to be decolonized okay so that's very important because writing helps you to… Read the full text about 2,757 words