Press Conference USA

DINAW MENGESTU On this edition of the program, host Carol Castiel talks with award-winning author Dinaw Mengestu, about his most recent novel “All Our Names.”  The Ethiopian born Mengestu discusses the characters and themes in this political novel, which deftly and creatively explores universal questions of identity, love, race, and revolution against the backdrop of post-colonial Africa and the post-civil rights movement in the United States.