From the late 1950s a new generation of African writers challenged colonial systems and used their work to imagine a new world.

The passing of celebrated Kenyan writer and scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o on 28 May 2025 marks the end of a remarkable period in African literary history - the fabulous decades in the second half of the ...

Literature is concerned with humankind and human life in its entirety. This includes everything that impinges on human life; it covers every aspect of experience and aspirations, politics inclusive.

To understand everything that happens in Latin America in relation to the United States is to brush aside inconvenient ...

The early culture of colonial Charles Town somewhat reflected the personality of its namesake, King Charles II, who ushered ...

Not merely a writer, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a force that changed how Africa saw itself and how the world saw the continent’s ...

With 22 rooms and three luxury suites perched along the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal in the heart of the historic district, the ...

The Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation on Friday announced 20 New York landmarks nominated for historic ...

Leading academic institutions have been toppled before in centers of learning such as Berlin and Beijing. Is Boston next?

The diversity-first music fest returns for its eighth year with thrashy, riot grrrl-style North Carolina punk band Babe Haven ...

Without claiming Márquez's storytelling magic, I am borrowing his evocative title to reflect on a different kind of endurance ...