Windham-Campbell Festival: Richard Wright's African Photographs
Wednesday, 4 p.m.–5 p.m.
Event Info
Windham-Campbell Festival: Richard Wright's African Photographs
September 21, 2022
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Room 38-39
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Free
Tsitsi Dangarembga and Assistant Professor of English and Humanities Ernest Mitchell discuss the hundreds of black and white photographs Richard Wright took in 1953 during a ten-week visit to West Africa to research his book Black Power (1954), an account of the Gold Coast’s transition to the independent nation of Ghana.
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Windham-Campbell Prizes
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undergraduate, faculty, alumni, Yale Postdoctoral Trainees, All Ages, General Public, Graduate and Professional, Spouses and Partners, Staff