Achebe inspired generations of Nigerian writers
(Dialogue Magazine) — Nigerian author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani was just 10 years old when she first read Chinua Achebe’s groundbreaking novel “Things Fall Apart.”
(Dialogue Magazine) — Nigerian author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani was just 10 years old when she first read Chinua Achebe’s groundbreaking novel “Things Fall Apart.”
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen [...]
(Reuters) – Media icon Bill Cosby at 74 still looms larger than life over the American psyche. Emerging from a Philadelphia housing project, ultimately success followed success as a comedian, actor, producer, author, educator, musician and activist. Breaking U.S. television’s racial barrier with “I Spy” as the first African American to costar on a television [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — When author Walter Mosley announced the beloved Easy Rawlins detective series was likely at an end, he got an immediate and powerful reaction. “Oh, people were upset,” Mosley said with a smile, “just so upset. Really terribly upset — which is funny. I kept telling them, ‘There are 11 books. If [...]
(NY Times) – More than 40 years after Tommie Smith and John Carlos ignited the sports world with their black-gloved fists raised on the victory stand at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Carlos says, “I still feel the fire.” Any doubts that time and age have somehow diminished the passion that fueled his track and [...]
(Reuters) – Marvel Comics on Wednesday unveiled a new Spider-Man for the Obama-age — a half-black, half-Latino nerd named Miles Morales. The new Spidey, who lives in Brooklyn, was revealed in Marvel Comics’ Ultimate Fallout Issue 4. He replaces longtime comic-book favorite Peter Parker, who was white, hailed from Queens and was killed in Ultimate [...]
(Washington Post) In “The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop,” author Dan Charnas traces how rap grew from its obscure roots in the ghettos of 1970s New York to its culmination as the world’s predominant youth pop culture and a multibillion-dollar industry. The event that epitomized just how far hip-hop had come [...]
By Edith Honan NEW YORK (Reuters) – Disgraced Olympic sprinter Marion Jones apologizes repeatedly in a new memoir over the doping scandal which ended her Olympic career, but she doesn’t expect her staunchest critics to ever see the “big picture.” “I can help one million kids not make bad decisions in their lives, and those [...]
“Sweet Thunder” (Knopf, 464 pages, $27.95), by Wil Haygood: The boxer Sugar Ray Robinson was a man of glittering skill and deep complexity. So complex, in fact, that several writers — including Robinson himself — have tried and failed to render a full portrait. Until now. Wil Haygood’s new biography of Robinson, “Sweet Thunder: The [...]
By Jennifer Reese Awe is the only appropriate response to Uwem Akpan’s stunning debut, Say You’re One of Them, a collection of five stories so ravishing and sad that I regret ever wasting superlatives on fiction that was merely very good. The setting is Africa; the protagonists, children — smart, innocent, greedy, furious, witty — [...]
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