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Aug. 12, 2003
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MARY LARSON, Director First-Year Experience and ACCORD
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AMY KELLY, News Bureau Director
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Experience apartheid through the eyes of a woman when award-winning author Sindiwe Magona visits Concordia during orientation week as the 2003 Orientation Speaker and All-Campus Lecturer. The lecture will take place at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 27 in Memorial Auditorium. Magona’s book "Mother to Mother" has been selected as the summer book read for incoming students.
Sindiwe Magona, an award-winning author, poet, storyteller, speaker, actor, and playwright has been published in her native South Africa, as well as in Great Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands. Born in the Transkei region of South Africa in 1943, Magona has lived in the United States where she works for the United Nations’ Department of Public Information. She will return to South Africa at the end of 2003 to lead important social and political work in her home country. Magona was brought up in the harsh surroundings of the townships of the Cape Flats, in Cape Town.
Magona is qualified as a teacher and now holds degrees from UNISA in South Africa and Columbia University in the United States.
Tickets to the event are $5 and proceeds will be split between the Maasai project in Tanzania and a project the author is working on in South Africa. Magona’s lecture is sponsored by Dovre Center for Faith and Learning, Student Association, Campus Entertainment Commission and Orientation.
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