New African-American FictionWe've selected our personal favorites from the year's best fiction by African-American writers...Seaman, Donna
An Israeli professor travels to a fictitious West African nation to trace a slave-trading ancestor, only to be imprisoned under a new law barring successive generations from profiting off the proceeds of slavery. But before departing from Tel Aviv, the protagonist falls in love with... ...
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Edify YakusakKurdan Publishing House LimitedLiterary FictionThe Curse of HappinessLeave a comment Where’d You Go? by Kehinde Ademoye February 24, 2020 View all books listed onNew Books Nigeria Title: Where’d You Go? Author: Kehinde Ademoye Genre:Short Stories Format:Paperback Book Dimension:5....
Four Hundred Souls is about African American history, from 1619—when the White Lion, the first African slave ship, arrived in Virginia—to the present, but it's also a really interesting book for anyone fed up with the standard historical narratives we learn in school. The book is a serie...
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set: Tatu (Akashic Books) Have I mentioned how much I appreciate what the folks at the Africa Poetry Book Series are doing? In addition to what I’ve already mentioned, they release a box-set of chapbooks each year—one more than last year,...
Hawaiki, the mythical homeland of the ancestors of Maori, New Zealand’s indigenous people, features in the prologue for my new release historical adventureNew Zealand: A Novel. The prologue begins: The pull of the southern land was strong now. Stronger than ever. Almost as strong as the off...
became the first image of an African American displayed at the White House. Clockwise, from top left, Charles Henry Alston’s 1970 bust of Martin Luther King Jr; Walking 1958; Andrew Herman photo of Alston, 1939; Midnight Vigil, 1936. (Smithsonian/Wikipedia/Columbia.edu) For more on Charle...
…and Pan American Airlines offered this unique take on the market crash to entice readers to sunny Havana… …despite the crash, the folks at R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company still clung to the fantasy of the posh set…you might be flat broke, but you could keep a stiff upper lip while...
The Edge of Things: New South African Short Fiction, Edited by Arja Salafranca (Dye Hard Press, Distributed by Bacchus Books) Will Be Launched on Thursday at 5.30 for 6pm. Join Salafranca and Contributors Liesl Jobson, Karina Magdalena Szczurek, Jenna Mervis, Jennifer Lean, Margie Orford, ...