Midas the legend was not always true there was a time when empires were built on dreams and prophesies and palaces held together with no more than spit and mud and wealth no hand had touched sprang from the earth and so it was with ours although the whispers in our trees told […]
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Achebe On How Victims of Slavery May Have Been Mourned
“[PBS Television] came to me and said, What would the village have done the day they discovered that the boy (Equiano) was missing? — Chinua Achebe In the late 90s, Achebe tried to imagine the African experience of loss and slavery. As part of a show, PBS asked him to reflect on how an African family or village might […]
Meeting Nourbese
Marlene Nourbese was already in the room when I arrived. To call the Gothic Room a room does it so much disservice. The interior of an Edwardian chapel maybe or something close to it but certainly not a room. Chairs were lined up semicircular in front of a podium. She sat to the left of […]
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