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Sep 26, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Michelle Johnson |Sandra Guzman |Darlington Chibueze Anuonye |Esinam Bediako
Bearing Witness: In his ongoing column, Karlos K. Hill highlights the efforts of cultural figures doing works of essential good around issues of social justice. Tens of thousands of Americans now lose their lives every year as a result of gun-related violence. And yet, despite persistent public protests calling for gun reform, entrenched partisanship in both Congress and state legislatures has effectively squelched meaningful debate and change.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Sandra Guzman |Darlington Chibueze Anuonye |Esinam Bediako |Itoro Bassey
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. In September, the University of Georgia Press published Japa and Other Stories, Iheoma Nwachukwu’s debut collection of short fiction. In these eight stories, Nigerian immigrants trek through a desert, become temporary Mormons, and sneak through Russia as they seek new life in strange territories. The collection won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
worldliteraturetoday.org | Darlington Chibueze Anuonye |Esinam Bediako |Itoro Bassey |Sangamithra Iyer
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. The last time I saw Giannina Braschi was a year ago at the 92NY in New York City. The auditorium was packed—800-plus New Yorkers convening to celebrate the launch of my monumental Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Latine Women. Braschi, one of the 140 brilliant writers featured in the anthology, read an excerpt of her new book, Putinoika (FlowerSong Press, 2024), and introduced the world to Putinas.
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Sep 24, 2024 | worldliteraturetoday.org | Darlington Chibueze Anuonye |Esinam Bediako |Itoro Bassey |Sangamithra Iyer
This page is available to subscribers. Click here to sign in or get access. The last time I saw Giannina Braschi was a year ago at the 92NY in New York City. The auditorium was packed—800-plus New Yorkers convening to celebrate the launch of my monumental Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Latine Women. Braschi, one of the 140 brilliant writers featured in the anthology, read an excerpt of her new book, Putinoika (FlowerSong Press, 2024), and introduced the world to Putinas.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
brittlepaper.com | Darlington Chibueze Anuonye
From Nawal El Sadaawi’s Women at Point Zero to Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter, African women writers have demonstrated a clear vision of the power of female friendship in patriarchal cultures that tend to oppress women and exclude them from the kinship of human beings.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
brittlepaper.com | Darlington Chibueze Anuonye
Uche Okonkwo’s “Animals” is an unusual love story about the forms desire can take and how we live through conflicting emotions. In this story, a child’s relationship with a chicken reveals a lot about the kind of relationship that exists in his family. Okonkwo’s characters have a nearly chaotic family life, but this chaos is tender, and beautifully rendered. Even after the reading experience, the image of a family at once united and detached by their avowal and denial of desire remains.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
brittlepaper.com | Darlington Chibueze Anuonye
Samuel Kọ́láwọlé and I recently had a conversation about his novel The Road to the Salt Sea. So, I didn’t imagine we’d be having another chat soon. Well, until I read his short story “Adjustment of Status,” shortlisted for the 2024 edition of the Caine Prize. How could I not think of Folahan as Able God’s kin, after all they had been through? In The Road to the Salt Sea, Able God and his team of Europe-bound immigrants ended up as a trafficked refugees and slaves in Libya.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Darlington Chibueze Anuonye
Skip to content interviews The author discusses his novel “The Road to the Salt Sea” and the unfair burden on African writers and Black writers to be political activists Samuel Kọ́láwọlé’s The Road to the Salt Sea is a novel that examines trans-Saharan migration. The Nigerian author does not shy away from depicting violence and suffering on the page, but his account is one of empathy, tenderness, and humanity. The novel opens with Able God attempting to escape from his country because of his...
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
therumpus.net | Darlington Chibueze Anuonye
When Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani started editing New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box-set Series, they were inspired by their conviction that emerging African poets lacked the publishing opportunities to impress their work on the world but not the talent to produce excellent art.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
hopkinsreview.com | Dora Malech |Darlington Chibueze Anuonye
Darlington: Congratulations, Brandon, on winning the Pulitzer Prize. Brandon: Thank you, Darlington. I am so grateful to be in conversation with you. Darlington: I remember Stacey Waite’s excitement when the award was announced. Two days before then I reached out to inform her that I’d be present at your reading in Lincoln, and that I didn’t need a reminder. Then the Pulitzer happened. I suppose you were together on the day of the announcement. Brandon: Yes.
