Chimamanda Adichie appeared on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show hosted by Trevor Noah to promote her book Dear Ijeawele. This is not the first time Adichie and Trevor are engaging in live conversation before an audience. They talked art and feminism at a PEN event held last year. But it is the first time Adichie […]
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The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2017: Ayobami Adebayo, Peter Kimani and Trevor Noah Included
The New York Times Book Review‘s prestigious 100 Notable Books of 2017 list has been released, and it includes Ayobami Adebayo’s novel Stay with Me, Peter Kimani’s novel Dance of the Jakaranda, and Trevor Noah’s autobiography Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood. Ayobami Adebayo’s Stay with Me is described as “a portrait of a marriage […]
The 12 African Authors Participating in the 2017 PEN World Voices Festival
The 2017 PEN World Voices Festival has begun in New York. The 2015 festival, which focused on African literature, was co-curated by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Here is a description of the 2017 festival on PEN’s Website. The thirteenth annual PEN World Voices Festival will take on some of the vital issues of the Trump-era, with […]
Trevor Noah Loves J. M. Coetzee, Zakes Mda, and Sol Plaatje
Trevor Noah is known as a comedian. Those of us living in the US know him as the host of the popular comedy show The Daily Show. But he has since become a literary figure—ever since his memoirs, titled Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, hit the stands earlier this month. Noah was […]
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