Wall Street Journal

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the World of African Literature

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the best-selling Nigerian author, wants American readers to know that African writers don’t just write about Africa’s problems. “When we talk about the developing world, ...
Yale Environment 360

Conference to explore how African literature can (re)imagine the world

“Africa and the World: Literature, Politics, and Global Geographies” is the theme of the 2017 African Literature Association (ALA) Conference taking place at Yale University June 14-17. The conference ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

A Broader Notion of African Literature

For many American children of Wendy Laura Belcher’s generation, Africa was the land of Babar and of Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan, yodeling “Ungawa!” and swinging through the jungle in small-screen ...
MyJoyOnlineOpinion

Now is the time to build African institutions

In 1960, the landmark year in which 17 African nations achieved their independence, the Ford Foundation announced its ...
Yale Environment 360

Novel perspective: How literature helps us re-think environmental threats

Yale faculty member Cajetan Iheka was an undergraduate in his home country of Nigeria at the height of unrest in the oil-rich Niger Delta in the 2000s. Militants were setting fire to oil installations ...
The Michigan Daily

Why I almost exclusively read African literature

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Evelyn Mousigian/TMD. I didn’t start reading fiction until later in my life. Correction: I did not ...
The Conversation

New African literature is disrupting what Western presses prize

African literature is the object of immense international interest across both academic and popular registers. Far from the field’s earlier, post-colonial association with marginality, a handful of ...
News 6 WKMG

Tributes to acclaimed African literature giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who has died at 87

NAIROBI – In a bookstore in Kenya’s capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Bennet Mbata, who ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Kenyans mourn African literature giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In a bookstore in Kenya's capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Nuria ...
clickondetroit.com

Tributes to acclaimed African literature giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who has died at 87

A man drove himself to the a Metro Detroit hospital after being shot on Detroit’s east side. Read full article: Metro Detroit faces another day of unhealthy air: Tracking smoke and heat Ann Arbor ...
KSAT

Tributes to acclaimed African literature giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, who has died at 87

Plan for morning fog Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Read full article: Train crash nearly derails Texas high school band’s performance at Alamodome; San Antonio students rally to help Numbers have ...