Fact Checking Mandela
It’s unfortunate the New York Times Book Review handed the appraisal of three recent books about
Lit
Cairo, City of Clay
A graphic novel probably doesn’t come more timely than Dutch comic artist Milan Hulsing’s City of
'50 Pounds and a Chicken'
NEWSWEEK [magazine]’s Christopher Dickey chats with [Nawal El-Saadawi]the octogenarian author and activist who refused to go
Edouard Glissant est mort
The writer Edouard Glissant has died. Glissant, a native of Martinique, citizen of France, was known
'What is the state of African writing?'
Dated, but still worth a look. Interview with the 2010 Caine Prize finalists.
People who have lost the habit of ruling themselves
Africans are like the man in the Igbo proverb who does not know where the rain began to beat him and so cannot say where he dried his body.
Re: Gentrified Fiction
Novelist (and New School professor) Siddhartha Deb in an interview with Jeffrey Errington for The Quarterly
Pushed to the Limit
Political economist Hein Marais’ 1998 book, “South Africa Limits to Change: The Political Economy of Transition,”
Teju Cole's 'Open City'
The writer Teju Cole (remember him from the Africa’s World Cup panel at The New School
The Kaddu Wasswa Archive
Dutch photographer Andrea Stultiens met Ugandan Kaddu Wasswa in 2008 through his grandson, photographer Arthur Kisitu.
Invictus is not a country
Writer Imraan Coovadia, on lit magazine n+1‘s blog, writing about the tenplate for “the South African
The African childhoods of white expats
Are publishers unwilling to back anything besides more of the same tried, tested and tired old formula?
Naipaul loves the cats
In the latest issue of The New York Review of Books, novelist Norman Rush reviews V.S.
'The Kenya I Live In'
This December 2010, Kenyan literary magazine, “Kwani?” will publish the top five entries of their “The
‘Tell Them You’re American’
I can’t say I was completely bowled over by Dinaw Mengistu’s first novel, “The Beautiful Things
Achille Mbembe’s Africa
if Africa wants to re-imagine itself it will have to look somewhere else than to Europe which “seems to be gripped by an enormous desire for apartheid.”
V.S. Naipaul does Africa
The British writer V.S. Naipaul’s previous forays into Africa were fictional: The novels “A Bend in
Who Are We?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoqsw3n8D6g&w=500&h=307&rel=0] My man Gary Younge, New York-based feature writer and columnist for The Guardian, has a
The graphic first 50 years of Congo’s independence
A graphic novel written and illustrated by a group of Congolese graphic artists, take stock of a half-century of independence for the DRC.