A Room for London is a small living space in the shape of the Roi des Belges - the boat in Joseph Conrad's novella The Heart of Darkness, which has been moored on the top of the South Bank as part of the Cultural Olympiad.
For four days every month, as part of a year-long project by Artangel, a writer takes up residence, tasked only with writing an essay on the theme of London, rivers and/or Conrad. Join the seventh resident, Alain Mabanckou – award-winning novelist and professor of literature at UCLA – as he meditates on the bloody colonial history of Congo-Brazzaville, where he was born and Conrad's novel is set.
