Outriders Africa: Tsitsi Dangarembga & Nadine Aisha Jassat | Edinburgh International Book Festival

In 2017 the Edinburgh International Book Festival supported ten writers to travel on journeys across the Americas. This was Outriders – an ambitious exploration of the idea that in shifting, disorienting times, a writer can make a unique contribution to our understanding of the world, giving voice to untold stories and providing new insights on contemporary geopolitical contexts.

Outriders will again see ten writers explore a region of the world – this time in Africa. Each pair of writers will embark on an international journey through Africa, meeting writers and communities along their way and engaging in discussions around migration, colonial legacies, inequalities and the impact of globalisation and environmental change. Each of the ten Outriders will create a new work in response to their journey which will be presented at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2020.

In this video, meet one of our travelling pairs – Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, whose debut Nervous Conditions was included in the BBC's 2018 list of the 100 books that shaped the world, and writer Nadine Aisha Jassat, who was named as one of 30 Inspiring Young Women Under 30 in Scotland by YWCA Scotland in 2017. Find out where they will travel to and what they hope to discover about the places they visit and themselves along the way.

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The story of the people who carried Livingston’s body...a different thread from the historical novel by Petina Gapah? Anyway, creativity paths are infinite.