Book Reviews
Rereading Ama Ata Aidoo: The Wisdom and Fire of No Sweetness Here
I first read No Sweetness Here and Other Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo in 2005, tucked into a corner of
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Book Reviews
The Grammar of Silence: On Kei Miller’s Things I Have Withheld
There are books that raise their voices in protest, and there are books that examine, with forensic precision, why so
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The Mirror and the Machete: Reading Our Sister Killjoy in a Fractured World
To read Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy: or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint today, nearly five decades after its
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A Borderless Solitude: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea
In Abdulrazak Gurnah’s quietly stunning novel, By the Sea, the act of telling one’s story becomes both confession and resistance,
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