My Thoughts On Chinelo Okparanta’s “America”
I’ve joined a group of bloggers to review the Caine Prize 2013 shortlisted stories. More feedback and reactions on ZunguZungu. Now, we’re reviewing America by Chinelo Okparanta. Chinelo Okparanta’s […]
Category Archives: Literature
Book Review: Americanah By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
THIS big, involved and ambitious novel by the Orange Prize-winning author of Half Of A Yellow Sun is partly a provocation on the raw subject of race, partly a sexy, […]
Chinua Achebe’s Anti-colonial Novels Are Still Relevant Today
Chinua Achebe‘s mission statement, by his own admission, was to “set the record straight”. His seminal work, Things Fall Apart, was the first in an African trilogy that […]
On My Bookshelf
A car salesman recommended that I read Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and I’ve been reading it, or trying to, ever since I bought it on Amazon.com in mid-2010. […]
