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Miriam Makeba’s Letter to Time Magazine (1960)

• January 17, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in african women, non-fiction, Quotes, writing
Tags: African naming traditions, Miriam Makeba, ready for revolution: the life and struggle of stokely carmichael: kwame ture

Reading Round-up

• February 15, 2012 • 1 Comment

Posted in black women, book reviews, books, literature, non-fiction, poetry
Tags: alice walker, inside this place not of it, Kathryn Stockett, m. nourbese philip, Octavia Spencer, prison, Tavis Smiley, the help, Viola Davis, women prisoners, zong

Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism

• September 9, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in non-fiction, political thought, writers
Tags: Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

Reading Matters

• April 30, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in books, literature, non-fiction, poetry, writers
Tags: a change of skin, alice walker, brick lane, carlos fuentes, horses make a landscape look more beautiful, jimmy carter, monica ali, monica pradhan, palestine: peace not apartheid, public libraries, the hindi-bindi club