Sacred Land: A Place Called Home

Ngûgî wa Thiong'o and Alexis Wright

A conversation across seas and cultures about the land rights of indigenous people and giving voice to a place called home. One of the most widely read African writers of our time, Ngûgî wa Thiong’o lives in exile from Kenya; his most recent work is ‘Wizard of the Crow’, a satirical landmark of postcolonial literature. Alexis Wright’s ‘Carpentaria’ received the Miles Franklin Award 2007, the first time an aboriginal author has won Australia’s most prestigious literary prize outright. This event will be chaired by Ken Olende.

'Wright recounts the big stories, and the little ones in between … with Dreamtime legends and ancestral tales of epic proportions' Sydney Morning Herald