The GWG Conference - Go Writers!!

I recently attended the Geneva Writer's Group Conference (2 - 3 February 2008) which took place at the Webster University campus in...yes, Geneva. It was a wonderful opportunity to meet fellow writers, poets and creatives.

My favourite workshop was the one taught by the very erudite Kwame Kwei-Armah, a very Afrocentric British West-Indian / Caribbean playwright whose dynamic words imparted both exhilaration and pride for craft and ability. I salute him here for encouraging and inspiring others to be the best they were created to be.

He is of course well known in Britain for more than his plays but I think it is rare to meet a writer (political or otherwise) who is committed to advancing awareness of issues pertinent to Africans of all denominations - I speak here of roots and not religions - and in bringing to our minds questions that we have perhaps trained ourselves to stop asking, either because it is inconvenient to do so or because many of us have been silenced for too long because we have been called paranoid, and have started to believe it is true.

I simply think that African writing should be more encouraged and promoted in all its forms. Go writers!!