Afro-Freedom Book Club Meet-up August 2025

About the Book

Out of Africa with her degree and her all-seeing eyes comes Sissie. She comes to Europe, to a land of towering mountains and low grey skies and tries to make sense of it all. What is she doing here? Why aren't the natives friendly? And what will she do when she goes back home?

Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo's brilliantly conceived prose poem is by turns bitter and gentle, and is a highly personal exploration of the conflicts between Africa and Europe, between men and women and between a complacent acceptance of the status quo and a passionate desire to reform a rotten world. Of her own writing, Ama Ata Aidoo says, "I write about people, about what strikes me and interests me. It seems the most natural thing in the world for women to write with women as central characters; making women the centre of my universe was spontaneous."

About the Bookclub

NB: This is a Public event - we welcome everybody with open arms. Please show up and feel free to grow our circle by inviting friends to be part of this movement of ours. The more the merrier. Let's grow our conversation circle! Join us - regardless of whether you've read thebookor not. The book inspires community DIALOGUE and YOUR voice is important to us.

We meet on the second Wednesday of each month and we welcome everybody with open arms. We provide little snacks and juice and you're welcome to bring your wine!

Learn more: https://www.goethe.de/ins/za/en/ver.cfm?event_id=26833909

You may also like the following events from Goethe-Institut Johannesburg:

• Next Wednesday, 20th August, 12:00 pm, Online Information Session: Call for Proposals – Grants for Heritage Organisations in Johannesburg

Also check out other Arts events in Johannesburg, Literary Art events in Johannesburg.