Category: Africa

  • Blackass: a race rewrite of Kafka’s Metamorphosis The Guardian 2016-04-13 Ainehi Edoro Ainehi Edoro reflects on Blackass, a novel that subjects Kafka’s classic to African literary conventions – and, in the process, gives an iconic European story ‘an extreme but necessary makeover’ Last year, I received a review copy of A Igoni Barrett’s Blackass from…

  • Book Review: Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex, and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana by Carina Ray Africa at LSE London School of Economics 2016-03-18 Yovanka Perdigao Yovanka Perdigao praises Crossing the Color Line:Race, Sex and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana for dismantling preconceptions of interracial couples in colonial Ghana. Carina…

  • Furo Wariboko, a young Nigerian, awakes the morning before a job interview to find that he’s been transformed into a white man. In this condition he plunges into the bustle of Lagos to make his fortune. With his red hair, green eyes, and pale skin, it seems he’s been completely changed. Well, almost. There is…

  • Trevor Noah: ‘It’s easier to be an angry white man than an angry black man’ The Guardian 2016-04-02 Lanre Bakare, Deputy Arts Editor Trevor Noah photographed at the Daily Show offices. Photograph: Christopher Lane Six months ago the South African comic took on the trickiest task in comedy; replacing Jon Stewart as host of the…

  • Understanding and Hearing the Afro-Asian Atlantic Princeton University African American Studies 2016-03-21 Presenters: Tao Leigh Goffe, Kerry Young, Hannah Lowe, Randy Chin, and John Kuo Wei Tchen A panel exploring the intersections of literature, reggae, and the relationships between the minority Chinese community in the Caribbean and the majority Afro-Caribbean community This panel will be…

  • Jackie Kay’s Quest For Her Roots – Theresa Muñoz Scottish Review of Books Volume 6, Issue 3 (2010-08-12) Theresa Muñoz Adopted at birth, Jackie Kay discovered neither of her birth parents were who she’d thought they’d be, her new memoir recalls. “If you have skin my colour” writes Jackie Kay in her memoir Red Dust…

  • Valentine’s Day special! On love, race and history in Ghana Africa is a Country 2016-02-14 Dan Magaziner, Associate Professor of History Yale University Despite colonial administrators’ attempts to sabotage their marriage plans, Brendan (a district commissioner) and Felicia Knight wed in 1945. Fifteen years later, Felicia staged a successful one-woman-protest in front of Flagstaff House…

  • Black in the USSR: The children of Soviet Africa search for their own identity The Calvert Journal 2016-02-04 Photography by Liz Johnson Artur Photograph by Liz Johnson Artur “When people ask me about my background I usually start by explaining how my mum is Russian, my dad is Ghanaian and that I was born in…

  • Infiltrating the colonial city through the imaginaries of Metissage: Saint-Louis (Senegal), Saint-Pierre (Martinique) and Jeremie (Haiti) University of Iowa August 2015 281 pages Avonelle Pauline Remy, Assistant Professor of French Hope College, Holland, Michigan A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in French and Francophone World Studies…

  • Exploring the geographies, genealogies, and concepts of race and gender of the African diaspora produced by the Atlantic slave trade