Wandering Stars: Tommy Orange and the Sovereign Center
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed What happens to the story when the ‘object’ of our sympathy looks back and refuses the role we’ve written for them? The allegory of the ‘Suffering Child’ is a powerful challenge, but it creates its...
The Bureaucracy of Erasure: Erdrich’s The Night Watchman
Your Interpretation is Colonial. When we turn Zen into a pop-culture vibe or a totem pole into a corporate metaphor, we aren’t learning; we’re committing interpretative violence.
Words from Nigeria 3 – Emezi’s Pet & Hunters for Truth
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Akwaeke Emezi demonstrates how Nigeria’s contemporary writers turn our conceptual realities around. They offer a YA novel that doesn’t condescend, but more, one which shows that we should not “walk...
Words from Nigeria Pt 2: Soyinka’s Tiger & Brother Jero
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Why have so few read Soyinka? And can we find hope through his cynical dramas? I admit I am a victim of the myth-making around me which has made Soyinka and other African writers largely invisible. Let’s see why....
Words from Nigeria Pt 1: Adichie and the Literary Manifesto
Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed What sort of literature is this, anyway? Today we introduce some approaches to Nigerian literature, offer a bevy of African writers, and explore how one of Nigeria’s most powerful authors can write her own...
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