What Is The What
Dave Eggers met Valentino Achak Deng, a Sudanese refugee finally living in Atlanta after spending almost his entire childhood fleeing the civil war. Together they decided to tell the long story of Valentino’s life as a “Lost Boy of Sudan.” Eggers soon realized that fictionalizing the story would give it a full effect.
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Chris Abani – Song For Night
Song for Night is a first-person tale of lost identity, suffering, and displacement. My Luck became a solider at age 12 after witnessing the murders of his Islam-convert father and stoic mother. My Luck is now 15. He is small for his age and very smart. He was trained to detect and defuse land mines. To ensure that My Luck and his brave comrades, including Ijeoma, the girl My Luck loves, remain quiet no matter what happens, the troop leaders have cut their vocal chords.
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African Rhapsody: Short Stories of the Contemporary African Experience
Given our rich oral tradition where great wisdom can be communicated in a few simple yet eloquent words, it makes sense that African writers would excel at short story writing. The economical yet rich use of language Africans have honed through proverbs and fables passed through generations is evident in African Rhapsody: Short Stories of the Contemporary African Experience.
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The Shadow Speaker, The Map of Love, and Fatou: An African Girl in Harlem
Twelve year old Fatou travels from West Africa to America thinking she’s furthering her education. Yet, she arrives in New York City greeted by a man three times her age-someone from her village who paid dowry to be her husband. Suffering through pedophiles, deplorably cruel living conditions, and slave life job eventual pushes over the edge. Fatou refuses to be a victim and exerts control of her life by becoming part of Harlem’s fast money scene. This fast paced novel examines what happens when the bonds of family and tradition fall apart. It also shows how a strong and fearless woman can hold her own surrounded by shady men in the dangerous drug game.
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Half of a Yellow Sun
There was a time in the history of Nigeria when the Igbo people from the East segregated to form an independent nation called BIAFRA, this was in 1967. The outcome was a three year civil war which has been captured in this riveting novel by Adichie; a young Nigerian author whom some have called the Chinua Achebe incarnate.
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Spoken Word Artist, Actor, and Motivational Speaker Omékongo
Urban Music Award Winner Omékongo Dibinga is a spoken word artist, rapper, actor, and motivational speaker. He is the Founder & CEO of Free Your Mind Publishing. A first generation Congolese-American who was described by Nikki Giovanni as “outstanding, exciting, and new while being very old”, Omékongo writes and performs poetry in English, French and Swahili, and has occasionally used Wolof in his writings. He also co-stars in the television drama series “Ya Ma’Afrika.”
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Dance The Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa
Nigerian author Ken Saro-Wiwa was an environmental and Ogoni rights activist. He led a movement in Ogoni for social and ecological justice. He used his writing and his boundless energy to unite the Ogoni behind a call for greater autonomy within the Nigerian Federation, access to oil revenues for the development of Ogoni, the right to protect Ogoni from ecological devastation and the right to preserve the Ogoni language. He was executed on November 10, 1995 by the regime of Sani Abacha along with eight other Ogoni activists.
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Infidel – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Infidel is an autobiographical book and New York Times bestseller by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The initial print of the book sold out in two days in the Netherlands.
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Shimmer Chinodya Wins The 2007 NOMA Award for Publishing in Africa
Shimmer Chinodya is one of Zimbabwe’s most celebrated post-independence literary writers. In 2007 he won the NOMA Award for Publishing in Africa for his novel Strife. 107 titles, from 66 African publishers, in 12 countries, in 5 languages, were submitted for the 2007 competition.
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The Street, The Icarus Girl, and Everything Good Will Come
Nigerian Sefi Atta’s novel Everything Good Will Come charts the fate of two african girls, one born of privilege (Enitan Taiwo) and the other (Sheri Bakare) a lower class “half-caste”. One is prepared to manipulate the traditional system while the other attempts to defy it. the tale traces this unusual friendship into their adult lives, against the backdrop of tragedy, family strife, and war-torn Nigeria.
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