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Emmanuel Iduma’s Reckoning with the Silence, Inheritance and History of the...

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right...

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When Writing a Novel Bridges a Gap Between Mother and Daughter

I was deep in the throes of a slow-moving depression, feeling frustrated with a job I had held for seven years, and reeling from the disappointment of a first novel that debuted without the critical...

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Rape As a Weapon: A Tragedy Both Ancient and Modern

On a brilliant blue-skied July afternoon in Stratford-upon-Avon, swans were gliding serenely on the river, while I sat in the dim auditorium of the Royal Shakespeare Company and watched Titus...

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Paradise Lost: How the Transatlantic Slave Trade Helped Fuel Violent Conflict...

The male and female warriors who stole the liberty and destroyed the town of those trafficked to the United States on the slave ship Clotilda launched their assault before dawn. The townsfolk were...

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How Catalyst and Iskanchi Press Are Bringing African Writers’ Work to a Wider...

I met Kenechi Uzor a few years ago when he was new to publishing and launching his press, which focuses on publishing African writers. My own company, Catalyst Press, which also focuses on publishing...

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Writing Between Worlds: Navigating My African and American Identities on the...

If you had known me when I was much younger, and asked how I identified, I would have told you that I was Black. This would have been my way to acknowledge my Blackness in America, being that I was...

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How a Novel by Mildred D. Taylor Helped Glory Edim Understand Being Black in...

When I glanced out a window and noticed that the sky was turning dark outside, I poked Maurice and told him to gather up his things. I carried the well-loved hardcover of Little Women to the library...

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From Lagos to Calgary the Resource Curse Condemns Nations to Corruption and...

In 2016, Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced, “We have developed a case of oil addiction in Saudi Arabia.” This was an understatement; the modern state was created solely by oil, its economy financed...

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How Tochi Eze Found Her Writing Voice in Igbo Folklore

I was seven years old the first time I learned you must not make water angry. My teacher, Aunt Edwina, was our housekeeper. She’d come from the village to our home in Lagos with no more than a bag of...

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The Necessity of Return: On Years of Ritual Killings in Nigeria

In a dream on one of my first nights in Iowa, I was weeping into a river. The river was flowing swiftly, washing away many people. In the logic of the dream, I knew their faces—they were the same...

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