Waited. perched high ‘ver moon Twirled fingers eyes horizon splashing shadows ‘ver cast. Spectacle for our generation Cast dream ‘ver yonder Sun reach out yon Make us nation and out this long night for knights mighty stand wheedling future pasts. T’s our testimony: arrived too soon bayed destiny ‘ver deaf pasts hand me sun future…
In this essay, I argue that pirates are space traitors who trespass legal and economic boundaries to achieve individual or collective gains and destabilize a society. The popularity of the concept of piracy in cultural representations such as films, fashion, comics, and literature highlights changes in society that mirror the legal-economic happenings during the Golden…
How does one tell stories of people whose lives bear scars and wounds of trauma and violence? Jonny Steinberg’s book, Little Liberia (2011), is a testament to the complexities of representing the life of the Other. Steinberg’s book shows the challenges of negotiating the self, the other, and disciplinary norms to craft a story that honors the…
The just-concluded 21st Nairobi International Book Fair allows us to reflect on the trends in book publishing in Africa. In a way, international book fairs are a microcosm of the state of publishing in the continent. At the Nairobi International Book Fair, many publishers showcased school textbooks and a few creative or trade books. Save…
