THE BOSTON UNIVERSITY AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER

INVITES YOU TO

LITERATURE AND ACTIVISM IN

THE EQUATORIAL GUINEAN
DIASPORA
MARCH 28, 2019 @ 6PM
BU AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER
ROOM 505, 232 BAY STATE RD
Lecture in English and Spanish
Translated by Carolina Nvé
Díaz San Francisco

Equatoguinean writer Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel

embarked on an unexpected hunger strike in
February 2011 to protest the repression of civil
liberties in Equatorial Guinea. Now exiled in
Barcelona, Spain, Ávila Laurel continues using his
literary work to denounce the second dictatorial
regime established in 1979. His latest book, The
Gurugu Pledge, is a novel dedicated to the
migrations of Africans to Europe and offers a vision
of an extended phenomena resulting from
decolonization and dictatorships.

CO-SPONSORED BY
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM &
THE DEPARTMENT OF WORLD LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES