Jonny Steinberg’s Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York City
Vincent Ogoti How does one tell stories of people whose lives bear scars and wounds of trauma and violence? Jonny Steinberg’s book,…
Read MoreThoughts on Recent Trends in Book Publishing in Africa
The just-concluded 21st Nairobi International Book Fair allows us to reflect on the trends in book publishing in Africa. In…
Read MoreGoing Back to the Basics?
Carol Cohn’s Women and War has challenged me to reflect on the following questions: With all the legislation and resolutions…
Read MoreSimon Gikandi’s Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Part I)
Contrapuntal analysis will show that even when the lives of enslaved Africans were located at the opposite pole of modern…
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