African American literature’s exploration and explication of such complexity remains important as we grapple with questions of identity, belonging, and justice.

Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter provides an intimate look into Senegalese society through letters written by two women. The ...

Though traditional, White media may not have accurately recorded Black history, griots have been protecting and telling the stories of African people and their descendants— long before 1619.

He will be remembered not only as a Nobel-worthy writer, but also as a fierce proponent of literature written in native African languages. Ngũgĩ was born James Thiong’o Ngũgĩ in 1938, when ...

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History ‘The mother of African American literature’: Remembering the poet Phillis Wheatley Peters Though she left a rich paper trail of poems and letters, accounts of her own life were scarce.

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature - a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail and exile.. His work spanned roughly six decades, primarily ...