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Preetika Nanda
Beyond Wakanda! Celebrating New African Speculative Fiction

Beyond Wakanda! Celebrating New African Speculative Fiction

On November 12th, 2021, we spoke with 6 authors of African sci-fi and fantasy, and launched several new books.

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Preetika Nanda
Zanzibari Poet Mohammed Ghassani: Voice of a Stranger in a Strange Land

Zanzibari Poet Mohammed Ghassani: Voice of a Stranger in a Strange Land

Continuing RBC's celebration of East African writing, Meg Arenberg speaks with Swahili poet and journalist Mohammed Ghassani. They chat about the news of Abdulrazak Gurnah's Nobel prize, Ghassani's experience living abroad, and how the themes of alienation and longing in Gurnah's novels overlap with Ghassani's poetry.

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Bhakti Shringarpure
Yvonne Owuor on Abdulrazak Gurnah and Literature of the Swahili Seas

Yvonne Owuor on Abdulrazak Gurnah and Literature of the Swahili Seas

Meg Arenberg is joined by Kenyan novelist Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor to celebrate the momentous occasion of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Nobel Prize, in her words, "a family win." Owuor talks about Gurnah the man and the mentor, the textures of his writing and how it has influenced her own, and reflects on the cartographic imagination that nourishes both poetry and prose born from the Swahili seas.

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Bhakti Shringarpure
Abolition is not simply an against...it is also a for.

Abolition is not simply an against...it is also a for.

On October 8, the Radical Books Collective will be hosting a book club on A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete, with -- as usual -- a guest visit from the author, Geo Maher. Maher is a writer and academic (with teaching credits from Vassar College, Drexel University, U.C. Berkeley, San Quentin State Prison, and the Venezuelan School of Planning in Caracas), as well as an organizer, public intellectual and translator. His public commentary has been the target of conservative backlash and public censure for its candidness about the connections between mass violence, white supremacist patriarchy, and...

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