Zimbabwean-Brit actress Thandi Newton (credits: Crash, Mission Impossible ) choice as a female lead in the screen adaptation of Chimamanda Adichie’s novel “Half of a Yellow Sun” has some people upset.
Thandie Newton cast in film about Biafran War. Critics: she’s “bi-racial” and “not Igbo”
January 27, 2012 By 19 Comments
Fela In The Low Countries
January 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The “Fela! The Musical” craze hasn’t reached the Low Countries (yet), but that doesn’t stop Dutch ZAM Magazine from including in its latest issue some old, but previously unpublished pictures, of Fela in Paris shot by Anton Corbijn.
Futbol is an African Country?
June 26, 2010 By 1 Comment
In the video above (filmed in Nigeria by anthropologist Jesse Shipley) Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie goes on about “… how nationalism expands as your country loses.” This the short version of an argument Adichie had made earlier in an op-ed for The (UK) Guardian about how for her at least Africa becomes a country […]
On the Stories We Tell About Africa
June 3, 2010 By 2 Comments
‘… The problem isn’t really the stories that are being told or which stories are being told. The problem really is the terms of humanity that we’re willing to bring to complicate every story.’ A recent comment from reader Justin Kraus reminds me that I’ve been meaning to post this brilliant talk from Chris Abani. […]
VIDEO: CHIMAMANDA ADICHIE ON WRITING
October 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment
