Dinaw Mengestu: Children of the Revolution

Born in Ethiopia in 1978 and a graduate of Georgetown and Columbia universities, Mengestu’s 2007 debut novel, Children of the Revolution, won the UK’s Guardian First Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2010, he was included in the New Yorker’s list of ‘20 Under 40 Writers to Watch’. He discusses Children of the Revolution with Ugandan writer and broadcaster Beverley Nambozo.