topic: African literature

Cry of the Owl (an excerpt)
December 2, 2012
Francis Mading Deng is currently South Sudan's first ambassador to the United Nations. His prolific career not only includes public service...
Reviews
Voice of Kenya
September 20, 2012
Binyavanga Wainaina occupies a prominent place in contemporary African literature. A recipient of the Caine Prize for African Writing and...
retrospectives
Joining Africa: From Anthills to Asmara
April 13, 2012
An excerpt from chapter six, “Rome’s Rome,” I traveled as a kind of pilgrim. I wanted to witness the site of one of Africa’s greatest,...
retrospectives
Grazmatch Tsegu
February 15, 2012
This reprint has been published with the permission of the publisher, The Red Sea Press In the mid-fifties, Villaggio Paradiso was a lot...
retrospectives
Faith Restored?
January 16, 2012
I began reading Hope Deferred with little hope of my own, imagining that reading it would be an exercise in enduring a collage of...
retrospectives
A Younger Generation Reflects on War, Literature and Zimbabwe
January 4, 2012
An excerpt from the novel, Pawns by the late Zimbabwean author Charles Samupindi Claiming Landscapes, a photo-essay by David Brazier on...
retrospectives
Pawns (an excerpt)
January 4, 2012
Chapter 2 THEN… Back in time some people were so thin that they had to jump around in the rain to get wet. Back in time. GHETTO BOY Why am...
retrospectives
From Kurtz to Kurt: Yasmina Khadra's Simplistic African Equation
November 20, 2011
Yasmina Khadra is arguably just as well known for the questions surrounding his identity as for what he has written. The nom de plum e of...