Revisiting a Painful Chapter of History IN The Book of Lost Friends, Lisa Wingate delivers a poignant exploration of loss, identity, and the long shadows of slavery in American history. Drawing inspiration from real “Lost Friends” advertisements, the novel reconstructs the emotional reality of families separated during slavery and their desperate attempts to reconnect. The […]
Navigating Structure in Writing: Benjamin Hale on Fiction and Nonfiction BENJAMIN Hale, acclaimed author of The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore and The Fat Artist and Other Stories, recently offered insights into his creative process, highlighting the contrasting approaches he employs when writing fiction versus nonfiction. Speaking in a reflective essay published by Literary Hub, Hale […]
Nigerian Novelist Takes Conflict Narrative to Global Audience RENOWNED Nigerian medical doctor and novelist, Dr. Wale Okediran, is set to take his acclaimed novel Madagali to the United Kingdom this winter as part of a London book tour celebrating African storytelling and resilience in the face of conflict. The tour will feature public readings, moderated […]
IN a landmark recognition of one of Africa’s most influential poetic voices, the Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA) has announced a forthcoming special issue titled “The People’s Word, The World’s Poetics: Niyi Osundare and the Rearticulation of Second-Generation African Poetry.” Co-edited by Olabode Ibironke and Tosin Gbogi, the issue revisits the revolutionary literary, […]
By FATIMA HUSSAINI ON the evening of 24 May 1963, inside a modest apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a confrontation unfolded that would quietly alter the course of America’s civil rights struggle. It was supposed to be a polite meeting — a “frank conversation” between U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and a group of […]
By DAVID JOHN-FLUKE ERNEST Hemingway lived as if life itself were a battlefield. From the trenches of World War I to the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War and World War II, he sought danger the way others sought peace. He hunted lions in Africa, wrestled marlins off the coast of Cuba, and wrote with […]
By TIMOTHY HAGGERTY-NWOKOLO WHEN Czech writer Ivan Klíma died at 94, the world lost not just a novelist but a symbol of moral courage. A survivor of the Nazi camps and the Soviet clampdown that followed the Prague Spring, Klíma remained in Czechoslovakia even when banned from publishing for two decades. Sweeping streets by day, […]
THE Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA) has announced a special issue dedicated to the towering legacy of Niyi Osundare—poet, critic, activist, and emblematic voice of Africa’s post-independence generation. Guest-edited by Olabode Ibironke and Tosin Gbogi, the issue—titled “The People’s Word, The World’s Poetics: Niyi Osundare and the Rearticulation of Second-Generation African Poetry”—seeks to […]