A Coffee in the Accursed Mountains

Write to protest: Musine Kokalari of Albania

September 14, 2023 Elizabeth Gowing and Rob Wilton Season 2 Episode 2
A Coffee in the Accursed Mountains
Write to protest: Musine Kokalari of Albania
Show Notes

Musine Kokalari (1917 - 1983) was Albania's first published woman, created a political party, and dared to speak out for pluralism when her country was falling to communism. She spent nearly 40 years in imprisonment and internment, writing alone. Nashi Brooker, who herself experienced the dictatorship, tells us why Musine still matters.