Book Reviews
The Weight of Ash: Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the Inheritance of Fire
Early in Homegoing, a young woman in 18th-century Ghana is unknowingly led into the bowels of the Cape Coast Castle,
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Clashing Generations and the Roots of Rebellion: Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons
By the time Ivan Turgenev published Fathers and Sons in 1862, Russia was a country on the brink: the old
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The Flying Prophet and the Broken Body: A Review of Kei Miller’s Augustown
Some novels knock gently before entering your life. Others simply burst through the window, mid-sentence, and demand your attention. Kei
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The Soundtrack of Ache: On Chimeka Garricks’ A Broken People’s Playlist
Some books are symphonic. Others are closer to mixtapes—loose, lived-in, stitched together by effect rather than plot. Chimeka Garricks’ A
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The Quiet Violence of Staying: A Review of Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah
What if the most radical act of a mother is to leave? Not in rage, not in rebellion—but in an
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FOUR LESSONS I LEARNT FROM READING S.R.B.ATTOH AHUMA: Reclaiming the Mind of a Nation Through the Writings of S.R.B. Attoh Ahuma
I was engaged in a conversation recently with a friend on the legacy of Nina Simone and the power of
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A REVIEW OF BOOKS I READ IN 2022… PART 3
21. Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment was authored by Francis Fukuyama and published in 2018.
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A REVIEW OF BOOKS I READ IN 2022… PART TWO
11. A Mercy is a Toni Morrison novel published in 2008. Set in 17th century colonial America, Jacob Vaark, a
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A REVIEW OF BOOKS I READ IN 2022…
Five days after sharing my list of books I read in 2021 with some friends on a Friday night in
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THE POOR ARE RICH IN PATIENCE: A BOOK REVIEW
What was plaguing the post-colonial writers of Africa to write so much about the creeping corruption of the newly independent
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MY TOP TEN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019
This is not a list of books published in 2019 but the top ten books I read in the past
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DEMOCRACY STORIES FROM THE LONG ROAD TO FREEDOM: FIVE LESSONS I LEARNED
As a child, Condoleezza Rice was an eyewitness to the awakening of racial freedom, when her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama,
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