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The Problem of History: Historiography’s Imperial Legacies

Two-thirds into Gyasi’s debut novel, a middle-aged history teacher named Yaw finds himself questioned by a class of schoolboys. The […]

‎‎Listing Yaa Gyasi, Yvonne Owuor, Colson Whitehead, Chimamanda Adichie, and Peter Kimani as examples, historian Dan Magaziner notes in an

“History clings to our skin. Somehow we must remember that we remember differently.”‎‎Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi‎‎”One must return to the site.

Americanah is a diasporic novel that explicitly negotiates different Black epistemologies. While acceding to the constitutive force of an afterlife

“An Unapologetic Love Story”: Adichie’s Gendered Romance with Africa‎‎Adichie herself has called Americanah an “unapologetic” love story, and it is

‎ ‎As Adichie remarked in an interview about the novel: “I am more or less expected, or maybe permitted, to

‎Americanah is part of a discourse that diversifies notions of Blackness in the diaspora. This is what Goyal asserts when

‎Writing about the 19th-century realist novel in The Bourgeois, Franco Moretti argues that “description as a form was not neutral

Reading for Race‎‎Both in terms of style and content, the Washington Times opinion piece resembles Ifemelu’s successful race blog in

‎”Since I must not all the same allow you to look at the future through rose coloured glasses, you should