Date: 17 February 2026 (Tuesday)
Time: 5.00pm – 6.00pm (ADT)
Location: ALCC (1526 Dresden Row Suite 205, Halifax)
Members: Free
Non-members: $10 per person (upon entry)
About the session
This session interrogates homogenizing theories and colonial frameworks. If we are to avoid “the danger of a single story” (Chimamanda Adichie), we must celebrate all stories and englishes.
About the speaker:
Gugu Hlongwane is an Associate Professor of English at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax. Her collection, Electric Fences and Other Stories, was published by Mawenzi House in 2016. She is currently working on a novel and a second collection of short stories. Her articles, in the field of postcolonial theory and literatures, appear in Muziki: Journal of Music Research in Africa, African Identities, Journal of Black Studies, Alternation, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Studies in Canadian Literature, Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, Postcolonial Text and the Journal of Literary Studies.
