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Features, Lit Scene, News July 1, 2020

Don’t Miss the BIGSAS Festival of African & African-Diasporic Literatures Featuring Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Véronique Tadjo, Achille Mbembe and Many More

This year’s BIGSAS Festival of African and African Literature will take place on July 3 & 4 via live stream on YouTube. The 2020 festival is hosted by Dr. Susan Arndt, professor of Transcultural English Literature at Bayreuth University. This year’s theme is “Care, Responsibility and Solidarity: Narrating Resistance in Arts, Academia and Activism.” It […]

I No Fit Breathe | Nigerian Pidgin English Poetry | Elizabeth Oshuare Ombor-Pereowei

(As we take remember our broda, George Floyd) I go buy sometin for area wey I dey stay. The moni wey I know; e don tay, Naim I give dem. Maybe e no legit! Whether na my fault or no be my fault, Dem no even allow me talk! Na so olokpa dem stand […]

Statement: African Authors Sans Frontieres in Solidarity with African-Americans

As African writers without borders who are connected beyond geography with those who live in the United States of America and other parts of the African diaspora, we state that we condemn the acts of violence on Black people in the United States of America. We note in dismay that what Malcolm X said in […]

Video Interview: Adichie Talks Ivanka Trump, Black Lives Matter, and Why She’s #WithHer

Speaking on a live Facebook video interview with UK’s Channel 4 News, Chimamanda Adichie comments on a series of hot-button issues ranging from the Black Lives Matter movement to Hilary Clinton’s candidacy and, of course, her short story about Donald Trump. The youtube video surfaced a few days ago, and we are more than delighted to […]

No Ordinary Things | Mukoma Wa Ngugi | Poetry

*A Poem for the Black Lives Matter Movement For black men and women, these are no ordinary things: A broken taillight, cigarette, cell phone, a spoon, pocket knife, hoodies in 85 degree heat, skittles, a toy sword, a toy gun in a children’s park, a toy rifle in a store that sells toy rifles, a […]

Teju Cole on the Disposability of Black Life #ThinkingFerguson

Three months ago, Nigerian author Teju Cole, wrote this New Yorker piece titled “Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s ‘Stranger in the Village.’” In the wake of what happened last night in St. Louis, Cole’s concluding remarks in the essay is timely food for thought. For those who are not familiar with the situation, Mike Brown, a […]