Timothy Burke, Swarthmore history professor–he’s written a book on commodity culture in Zimbabwe–and blogger, has a

In Cape Town this January, Ken Salo invited Jessica and I to presentations by summer abroad

[vodpod id=Video.5972910&w=500&h=411&fv=videoId%3D897337827001%26amp%3BlinkBaseURL%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.newyorker.com%252Fvideo%253FvideoID%253D897337827001%26amp%3BplayerID%3D673564960001%26amp%3BplayerKey%3DAQ%7E%7E%2CAAAAAF1454s%7E%2CQH_ygumSKiVg91q-ZwBlqWe1HcfbhDds%26amp%3Bdomain%3Dembed%26amp%3BdynamicStreaming%3Dtrue] Writer Teju Cole— he has a new novel, “Open City”–talks and writes about identity

Although it was only launched a year ago, Cape Town-based Badilisha Poetry Radio is rapidly building

I received my copy of this year’s Commonwealth Prize winner Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love in

Our man Teju Cole’s novel “Open City,” set in post-9/11 New York City, is doing better

Last year, Chris Abani introduced Ghana-born writer and poet Kwame Dawes (who spent most of his

It’s unfortunate the New York Times Book Review handed the appraisal of three recent books about

A graphic novel probably doesn’t come more timely than Dutch comic artist Milan Hulsing’s City of

NEWSWEEK [magazine]’s Christopher Dickey chats with [Nawal El-Saadawi]the octogenarian author and activist who refused to go

The writer Edouard Glissant has died. Glissant, a native of Martinique, citizen of France, was known

Dated, but still worth a look. Interview with the 2010 Caine Prize finalists.

Novelist (and New School professor) Siddhartha Deb in an interview with Jeffrey Errington for The Quarterly

Political economist Hein Marais’ 1998 book, “South Africa Limits to Change: The Political Economy of Transition,”

The writer Teju Cole (remember him from the Africa’s World Cup panel at The New School

Dutch photographer Andrea Stultiens met Ugandan Kaddu Wasswa in 2008 through his grandson, photographer Arthur Kisitu.

Writer Imraan Coovadia, on lit magazine n+1‘s blog, writing about the tenplate for “the South African