The African childhoods of white expats
Are publishers unwilling to back anything besides more of the same tried, tested and tired old formula?
Lit
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.
Cornel West speaks on Jane Austen
It’s worth the price of admission to hear Cornel West say of the conservative British author–with
Sleeping Dogs
The poetry of Ronelda Kamfer sheds light on the still marginalized lives of South Africa’s “brown communities.”
What Obama means to Black Americans
Black America want better schools, better jobs, cheaper health care, lower taxes, smaller prison populations, stronger labor unions.
You Never Walk Alone
It's no accident that so many South Africans watch and support English Premier League football teams.
Love in Africa
This book explores love, that stuff most Western journalists rarely write about when they write about Africa.
The Ugandan Soldier
A comic book, published by an imprint of DC Comics, is set during the Ugandan Civil War.