Ato Quayson on the human condition

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Published on April 24, 2009 3:10:35 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT72lc7SdsE

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"Even in our singularities our lives are complex"

Ato Quayson is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto, where he has been since August 2005. He did his BA at the University of Ghana and took his PhD from Cambridge University in 1995. He then went on to the University of Oxford as a Research Fellow, returning to Cambridge in Sept. 1995 to become a Fellow at Pembroke College and a member of the Faculty of English where he eventually became a Reader in Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies. Prof. Quayson has published widely on African literature, postcolonial studies and literary theory. (Recorded on November 05, 2008)