(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 […]
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Teju Cole’s Spotify Playlists Offer Musical Solace for These Times
Among Teju Cole’s many talents is his ability to curate music that captures a mood or even the feel of a place. Since mid-March, when the lockdown began, Cole has been putting together playlists on Spotify that, as he explains on his Facebook page, are in line with the “gesture of sharing music in a […]
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 […]
Teju Cole’s Essay on The Disposability of Black Lives is Essential Reading for Our Current Moment
As we mourn the death of George Floyd, whose life was brutally taken by a white police officer in Minneapolis, let us reflect on something Teju Cole wrote a few days after another black man, Michael Brown, was shot in Ferguson, Missouri, back in 2014. The piece, titled “Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin’s ‘Stranger in […]
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