Distinguished African writer sets course for the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea

Jan. 26, 2012 - PRLog -- An African writer is to travel from his homeland to deliver a free talk at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea on Saturday 4 February at 12.30pm.

Distinguished Nigerian author Chuma Nwokolo has added the centre to a 12-city British and African tour to launch his latest book The Ghost of Sani Abacha, a collection of twenty-six remarkable short stories.

Chuma will be in conversation with local author Nigel Jenkins before reading excerpts from his new book.

Nigel said ‘Chuma’s work is the best way of visiting Nigeria without actually going there.

“These are superb stories, brimful of life, drama, humour, anger, satirical wit, compassion and a delight in language’.

Jo Furber, Literature Officer at the Dylan Thomas Centre said “Against a background of corruption, the people in these stories get on with their lives and their loves as best they can.

“Nwokolo draws back the curtain to reveal, with good use of humour, some of the darkest or quirkiest corners of contemporary life”.

Chuma Nwokolo, who was born in 1963 and is a lawyer, writer and publisher, whose numerous books include Diaries of a Dead African, One More Tale for the Road, and Memories of Stone (poems).

He was writer-in-residence at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford from 2005 to 2007, and has led creative writing courses for Oxford Brookes University and other institutions, and performed at innumerable literary festivals.

For more information on other events at the Dylan Thomas Centre telephone 01792 463980 or visit http://www.dylanthomas.com.

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