African writers abroad

Migration, Memory, and the Global Gaze on African Pain—Exported, Exoticized, and Finally Explained From ABS, Who Believes that exile can write better novels than comfort ever will. Some left by choice.Some were pushed.Some boarded planes, only to find that customs didn’t check for grief, and memory couldn’t be declared. This is the African literary diaspora: […]

Colonialism, Culture Clashes, and Why Chinua Achebe Had Every Right to Be Annoyed From ABS, Who Believes stories survive empires, but sarcasm survives history. It begins, as most tragic tales do, with someone arriving uninvited. Long before PowerPoint presentations and TED Talks about “cultural sensitivity,” colonial powers marched into Africa with swords, Bibles, and the