Matthew Wilson, a Bajan now living In Switzerland retraces some of James Baldwin’s steps 70 years after him, in the town of Leukerbad. Leukerbad is the place that inspired ‘Stranger in the Village’ and where Baldwin completed ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’. Drawing from Teju Cole’s 2014 essay, Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s “Stranger in the Village” and the art of Haitian-American artist Sasha Huber of Baldwin he finds inspiration himself
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://mediadiversified.org/2022/04/22/chasing-james-baldwin-in-switzerland/
