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Nigerian Novelist Helon Habila

Conversations with African Poets and Writers, The Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress

TITLE: Helon Habila

SPEAKER: Helon Habila
EVENT DATE: 05/01/2012
FORMAT: Video + Captions
RUNNING TIME: 53 minutes
TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript (link will open in a new window)

DESCRIPTION:
Award-winning Nigerian novelist Helon Habila read excerpts from his novel "Oil On Water" and discussed his new anthology "The Granta Book of the African Short Story" in a program cosponsored with the Africa Society of the National Summit on Africa.