Teju Cole
Central Library 201 W. Mifflin St., Madison, Wisconsin 53703
One of today’s most powerful voices in prose (the novel Open City) and nonfiction, Teju Cole visits Madison for a presentation based on his new collection of essays, Known and Strange Things, which brings fresh insight to topics ranging from politics to Shakespeare. Cole will also deliver the Saturday keynote at the UW African Studies Program conference “Pleasure and the Pleasurable: In Africa and the African Diaspora.”
Presented in partnership with the Department of African Cultural Studies and the Wisconsin Book Festival.