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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Two Years With Nana Ama: A Letter to My Daughter on Her Second Birthday
My dearest Nana Ama, You are turning two. Someday—years from now—you’ll read this. Maybe you’ll smile, maybe you’ll roll your
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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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Black Sherif’s Iron Boy is a War Cry in the Language of the Weary
There’s something deeply spiritual about the way Black Sherif makes music. Not spiritual in the choral-soprano, incense-burning sense, but in
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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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Reflections of a Maverick Citizen...
We’ll Be Fine…
Picture courtesy: Caroline Koomson. One of the wigs on sale… The world quietened around me. In that strange hour before
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Reflections of a Maverick Citizen...
LOVE IN THE DARK
I remember standing at the gate of that famous house along the banks of the great river. Dusk was falling
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Reflections of a Maverick Citizen...
REFLECTIONS OF A MISERABILIST…
I visited my hometown over the last weekend to attend the funeral of a very good friend of mine who
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Reflections of a Maverick Citizen...
SEEING PLACES FROM A DISTANCE
It was just after 2a.m. on a Wednesday dawn in April and I was driving from Tema to the Amansie
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TRAVELING BROKEN AND ALONE…
Sharing the happiness and optimism of the day from Alley Bar, I felt things might eventually be okay, even if
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TRAVELLING BROKEN AND IN FEAR…
The sun had long set and it was very dark. In the tired quietness of the evening, the severe headaches
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