chimamanda adichie has a wonderful piece in newsweek, reposted in the daily beast, that asks whether the jury would have believed dominique strauss-kahn or his alleged victim, guinean immigrant nafissatou diallo. On television, she was familiar: the skin tone that suggested cheap bleaching creams, the ambitious hair weave, the melodrama. An American friend of mine thought her interview too theatrical [...]

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Author – Jacqueline Maduneme Publisher/ Date – Pointed Arrows (May 2011) Book Title – Ada’s Daughter (356 pages) Genre – Memoir (Dysfunctional Families) Reviewer – Myne Whitman Source – Review Copy from Author   The memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off, in its insistence that the author plumbs the depths of their psyche to make sense of [...]

the guardian asked zadie smith, one of a handful of contemporary writers, to comment on her rules for writing. since i found zadie’s list to be depressing, pessimistic, and utterly without joy, i wrote my own.  keep in mind that i am not an award-winning published author, although that doesn’t mean i’m not also a writer. 1. write first thing in the [...]

Temie Giwa My life is littered with great books. I tend to remember the important events of my life with the books I was reading at the time. The summer vacation from college when I switched my major from corporate law to international development, I read Nelson Mandela’s “Long walk to freedom”. Last year’s adventure all over Europe was my [...]