View from hotel balcony - Dakar, Senegal, 11 July 2007
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- Wordsbody
- I am a writer and arts journalist now based in Lagos. This is a blog on arts and culture. The focus is on Nigeria's art scene, especially her 'Word's Body' - the writers. As and when, we'll also touch on wider African writing, as well as international literature. In short, a saturation of the arts.
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Announcement: The International Jury of the 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia 60th International Art Exhibition Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere The International Jury of the Biennale Arte 2024 / ...1 week ago
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Vocational Education in Africa. Anyone? by Jeff Megayo - Jeff Megayo writes: ...there’s been a noticeable focus in getting Africans educated, but the evolution in education hasn’t necessarily translated into tang...2 months ago
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CBC, 1000 Words - I’m delighted to share that my most recent novel, The Other Americans, is the March selection of the California Book Club. For the occasion, I wrote an ess...2 months ago
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Rhythms and Rhymes - a Musical Journey - If you don't have control over the songs you listen to, your playlist becomes an eclectic mélange of genres. I grew up on a diverse collection of music f...2 years ago
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Peju Alatise - By Joanna Chan Introduction Peju Alatise is a Nigerian born painter, sculptor, poet, and writer, and a leader for feminist activism. She is currently one ...2 years ago
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Jump Up! - I have a picture of the wedding dance. This island man, young and handsome, with epaulettes, leads me, in my white gown and silk slippers, around the pavil...3 years ago
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First look: ‘Where is Your Wrapper?’ cover reveal - Described by reviewers as “highly readable and imaginative”, “a book to be owned and gifted”, and “written by a powerful mind and talented writer”, Where i...
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MW, I thought you might find the below interesting:
"Tawanda Gumbo, M.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas assistant professor of internal medicine, who will develop a treatment regimen based on blocking the mechanisms that tuberculosis bacteria use to evade killing by antibiotics" has won the 2007 NIH Director's Pioneer/New Innovator Award. The NIH News reports, "NIH selected the award recipients through special application and evaluation processes that engaged 262 experts from the scientific community in identifying the most highly competitive individuals in each pool. The Advisory Committee to the Director, NIH, performed the final review and made recommendations to Zerhouni based on the evaluations by the outside experts and programmatic considerations".
Tawanda Gumbo is a poet and novelist whose works portray Zimbabwean life, and his contribution to science is highly commendable at a time when the media seems to focus on the negative aspects of Zimbabwe. Problems aside, dictatorial leader notwithstanding, Zimbabwe's educational system has given birth to talented scholars who are making outstanding contributions in different fields internationally. That Dr. Gumbo is a writer (busy as he might be in his career) shows how art penetrates all spheres of life, and like an ancestral spirit, it is free to choose a medium through which it manifests itself.
Tawanda Gumbo graduated from the University of Zimbabwe Medical School, completed residency in Internal Medicine (with International Health) at Case Western Reserve University (Metro-Health) and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Cleveland, Ohio. He went back to Zimbabwe in 1999 and joined the Department of Medicine at the University of Zimbabwe before leaving to become an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Albany Medical College, and attending in Infectious Diseases at Albany Medical Center. He has researched in Zimbabwe and published numerous scientific papers on AIDS other infectious diseases. He has written the novel The Fire Inside and the poetry collection Songs of a Flame Lily
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