Two weeks ago, when I heard, in Lagos, that Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan had signed an anti-gay bill into law, a Nigerian friend archly commented, “I don’t know why people are surprised.” She had a point: the homophobia and anti-gay…
Lei ha scritto un saggio che ha avuto molta risonanza, “Come scrivere dell’Africa”, intendendo come non si dovrebbe scrivere dell’Africa. Agli occhi degli occidentali l’Africa è un paese esotico. Ci sono molti scrittori bianchi che ambientano i loro romanzi in…
Traces of Binyavanga Wainaina’s address, “I am a Pan-Africanist, not an Afropolitan”, delivered at September’s African Studies Association UK 2012 conference, have lingered with me over the past few months: the image of invisible digital networks of texts reaching ghost-like across continents, genre-bending…
«Among your characters you must always include The Starving African, who wanders the refugee camp nearly naked, and waits for the benevolence of the West». Leggi How to Write about Africa sul sito di «Granta».