Chinelo Okparanta: Interview
by Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn “Some of my strongest memories of place today are still my memories of Nigeria. In my mind I can still see the road to my primary school, and I can tell you the placement of the headmistress’s office, and the patch of dusty earth where we stood for morning assemblies, or…
Is African Identity Really Out of Fashion? | Brittle Paper
Wanuri Kahiu is a brilliant filmmaker. Pumzi, her post-apocalyptic sci-fi short film, was screened at Sundance
M.G. Vassanji: Interview
by Clarence Reynolds It comes as no surprise that when M.G. Vassanji’s book won a regional Commonwealth Writer’s Prize the honor was an auspicious beginning for the first-time novelist. In 1994, his novel The Book of Secrets received the inaugural Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s prestigious literary award, and further solidified Vassanji as an important literary…
Mosaic 28
Issue 28 Fall 2012 Interviews Caryl Phillips by Clarence V. Reynolds Camille T. Dungy by L’Oréal Snell Andrea Levy by Tracey L. Walters Excerpts Color Me English: Thoughts About Migrations and Belonging Before and After 9/11 by Caryl Phillips The Long Song by Andrea Levy Poems by Camille T. Dungy Maybe Tuesday Will Be My…
Best Books of 2012
BEST BOOKS OF 2012 by Clarence V. Reynolds Freelance editor Clarence V. Reynolds reads thousands of books every year. Mosaic Literary Magazine asked him to whittle that list down to the best of the year. After much discussion here’s his list of nine stellar titles.
There Was a Country by Achebe | NYT
There Was a Country by Chinua Achebe by Adam Nossiter Rumors of Nigeria’s demise have been somewhat exaggerated. This turbulent and magnetic African megastate endures despite its intense regional, religious and
Chike and the River: Review
Chike and the River By Chinua Achebe Anchor Books Review by Deatra Haime Anderson Originally published in South Africa in 1966, Chinua Achebe’s children’s book Chike and the River finally makes its debut here in the United States. Part escapade, part fable, it is a simple but engaging story of 11-year old Chike who struggles…
