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 …
SAiDTalks: Professor and Hip-Hop Scholar Seth Markle Talks Tanzania’s Hip-Hop Scene and Organizing One of the World’s Top International Hip-Hop Festivals
Greetings, SAiDTribe! We hope you enjoyed our first installment of SAiDTalks with acclaimed Africanfuturist Nnedi Okorafor. This Black History Month, we are excited to share this next SAiDTalks feature, which we will explore the history, present, and future of one …
AGING GRATEFULLY
I would like to thank you for your positive response to the newsletter announcement and your continued support of our transition from Applause Africa to SAiD (Society for Africans in Diaspora– Formerly “Applause Africa”.) I spent the past few months reflecting on …
Why More Africans Should Be Encouraged to Pursue Their Callings and Not Their Careers
On June 11, 2016, I reached a significant milestone: I graduated with a B.S. in chemical engineering, had a job awaiting me at one of the largest corporations in the world, and I had the rest of my life planned out. Like …