Meadowlands Dawn by Jo Beall: In conversation with Professor Olivette Otele

Join us for an engaging conversation between Jo Beall, Co-Vice Chair of the SOAS Board of Trustees, and Distinguished Research Professor of the Legacies and Memory of Slavery within the Faculty of Law Professor Olivette Otele, as they discuss Jo's debut novel Meadowlands Dawn, inspired by her own experience as an activist and political prisoner under the Apartheid regime in South Africa in the 1980s.

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Jo Beall taught international development at the LSE, was Deputy Vice Chancellor at the University of Cape Town and was Global Director of Education and Cultural Engagement at the British Council. Meadowlands Dawn, Jo's debut novel is inspired by her own experience as an activist and political prisoner under the Apartheid regime in South Africa in the 1980s.

Olivette Otele is Distinguished Research Professor of the Legacies and Memory of Slavery within the Faculty of Law at SOAS. She was a judge of the International Man Booker Prize and chair of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. Her book African Europeans (2020) was 'A Guardian Best book of 2020' and was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Prize 2022.