March 2024

30 Years Later

In April 1994, the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda began. Looking at intergenerational Rwandan literature, one finds that not only the older generation of writers continues to grapple with this trauma

The Slow Pace of Change

An Exploration of Ghanaian Masculinities from Colonial to Present Times

Imaginary Lives in Sudan’s War Zone

Recent Sudanese novels highlight the lives of those caught up in Sudan’s internal wars. Literature reflects the resilience of the Sudanese people and provides a background to the horrific fighting and consequences unfolding

Breaking the silence, overcoming fear

The Arabic language and creative writing as a means of linguistic emancipation and social liberation

Leonard’s City

Encounters with Leonard Cohen in his Montreal

Cost of Wedding

Becoming a writer in colonial times in Kenya is like a psychological overview of African Development itself – as liberating as constricting

The sanity of the couch

The cosmopolitan and the provincial, the universalist and the particularist - Philipp Felsch on his biography of Jürgen Habermas

"You almost have the feeling you're dealing with two different authors"

The philosopher as educator of the Germans: Philipp Felsch on his biography of Jürgen Habermas

A popular classic as a subversive masterpiece

Percival Everett retells Mark Twain's young adult novel Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of the slave Jim - "James" is a tragicomic novel about racism, identity, human abysses and friendship

People must be crazy

"Trophy", Gaea Schoeter's novel about big game hunting and Africa, is an intelligent and passionate introspection into post-colonial sensitivities and a Western morality that has degenerated into a luxury product