Nomadic Lives, Juxtaposed With the Literary: Notes on “Walking With Abel”
Badkhen's latest chronicles her travels with a Fulani family throughout Mali and meditates on the nature of being a nomad. (READ MORE)
Africa
The Musical and Political Roots of Thomas Mapfumo in ‘Lion Songs’
Banning Eyre’s biography of Mapfumo shows how inseparable his music was from that of the politics of Zimbabwe. (READ MORE)
Matthew Palmer on Conflict Minerals and the Story of the DRC
Matthew Palmer, author of American Mission, details the political and social troubles plaguing the DRC that gave rise to his fiction. (READ MORE)
Leigh Ann Henion on Traveling and the Serendipity of Strangers
Leigh Ann Henion, author of Phenomenal, whisks us away to to a corner of Africa where she struck up an unlikely friendship. (READ MORE)
Around the Mother Land: 5 Memoirs of Women in Africa
Like Alexander Fuller who writes about her childhood in Zambia, other European women have been similarly affected by their time on the African continent. For tales of women in Africa, check out these memoirs.(READ MORE)
Exorcisms and Dashing Expats: Expect the Unexpected in Sundaram’s ‘Stringer’
Enjoy a few unexpected tidbits about the Congolese people and nation that Anjan Sundaram reveals in Stringer, his memoir about leaving his bright future to work as a freelancer reporter in the dangerous and politically corrupt DRC.(READ MORE)
Jessica Alexander on Her Time In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
Jessica Alexander, author of Chasing Chaos, speaks to her time working in humanitarian aid, what she learned, and how it changed her. (READ MORE)
Revered African Novelist Chinua Achebe Dies at 82
Chinua Achebe, author of the famous African novel Things Fall Apart, has died at the age of 82. He'll be remembered, not just as an author or an educator, but as an inventor, an architect of hope of the highest order.(READ MORE)