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The anticipated books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by African writers this year, selected by the staff of Open Country Mag, expected to dominate the literary conversation.
Primary research by Ada Nnadi.
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BETWEEN STARSHINE AND CLAY: CONVERSATIONS FROM THE AFRICAN DIASPORA, Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Footnote Press
January 31,
In a series of incisive and intimate encounters, Manyika interviews some of the most distinguished Black thinkers of our times, including Nobel Laureates Toni Morrison and Wole Soyinka and civic leaders first lady Michelle Obama and Senator Cory Booker, while reflecting on her own experience as well.
THE LANGUAGE OF LANGUAGES, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Seagull Books
February 5,
This volume brings together for the first time Ngũgĩ’s essays and lectures about translation, written and delivered over the past two decades. Here we find Ngũgĩ discussing translation as a conversation between cultures; proposing that dialogue among African languages is the way to unify African peoples; reflecting on the complexities of translating one’s own work; and pleading for the hierarchy of languages to be torn down.
TOMORROW, TOMORROW, INSHA ALLAH, Sara Cheikh
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