African Diaspora Awards Commemorative Magazine Announcement: Collector’s Edition.
As we look forward to this year’s ADA, we can hardly believe how far we’ve come, as a Diaspora and as an organization. ADA 2022, as we commemorate our tenth-plus anniversary (started in 2020), promises to be a reunion of rejuvenated, emboldened …
Shared Journey: Interview with Raqib Bashorun By Uche James Iroha
Uche James Iroha Houston Texas. January 2022 “Studies show that identification with all humanity is more than an absence of ethnocentrism and its correlates more than the presence of dispositional empathy, moral reasoning, moral identity, and the value of universalism” – S. …
For Black women, the 19th Amendment didn’t end their fight to vote.
A noted historian examines two myths about what the 19th Amendment did—and didn’t—do for women in 1920. When it comes to the story of women’s suffrage and the 19th Amendment, two competing myths dominate. The first is that when the amendment became …
African Lit Review: Death and Love in a Mojave Desert Town: The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
by Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed, Founder, bookshy I vividly remember the Desert scenes in Independence Day. The one when motorhomes and campervans were fleeing the Desert from the aliens or Will Smith in his jet weaving through the rocky terrain as the aliens shot …
African Lit Review: Murder She Wrote: “My Sister, the Serial Killer” by Oyinkan Braithwaite
by Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed, Founder, bookshy Society may be obsessed with serial killers – true crime series, movies, documentaries and books, as well as news reports – but can you name a (Black) African serial killer in fiction? If your answer is met with …
African Lit Review: “The Dreamer and the Badass”: The Hundred Wells of Salaga by Ayesha Harruna Attah
by Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed, Founder, bookshy “Aminah is a bit of a daydreamer”, Ayesha Harruna Attah explains to the packed room at Politics and Prose at The Wharf in Washington DC. Attah goes on to speak about Wurche, “a princess in the region of …