Afabwaje Kurian

Oct 11, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Neesha Powell-Ingabire |Afabwaje Kurian |Nick Gardner |Michael Keefe

Reading Lists As the leaves fall, curl up with these books I’ve been reading from outside of Phoenix, where there have been over 120 days of 100 degree temperatures as summer comes to a close. With Hurricane Helene devastating the Southeast and war spreading in the Middle East, the uncertainty about our collective futures—whether it is from climate change, the loss of loved ones, or displacement from our homes and homelands—is so present in the fifteen books on this list. Yet, there is also...

Sep 24, 2024 | bookbrowse.com | Afabwaje Kurian

Before the Mango Ripens by Afabwaje Kurian focuses on the tensions between residents of a Nigerian town and white American missionaries based there.

Sep 24, 2024 | bookbrowse.com | Afabwaje Kurian

Chapter Fourteen Jummai stood under the Parsons' veranda, wringing her hands on the apple-dotted apron Ms. Katherine had recently insisted she wear when cooking. Her eyes raked the compound for Elijah. He liked to doze in the hammock behind the Reverend's house or she'd find him crouched against the cowshed, playing a game in the dirt. She spotted him in the grapefruit tree, his whitish-looking hair peeking out of a cluster of leaves like a rooster's comb. She waved at him to come down.