2015 SAGE Award Recipient – Literature Category Tecla Tawonezvi’s evocative and colorful memoir – Diary of my Pilgrimage of Faith is a fascinating tale that covers her own sojourns over the last decade or more, from growing up in the war torn South Africa and Zimbabwe, to her emigration to the strikingly different environs of [...]
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One On One With Author Jerry Gbardy ”Painful Journey ”
on December 18th, 2014
I recently sat down with Jerry Gbardy, the author of “Painful Journey”, to get a better sense of his motivation for putting his life out there for us to read. TAN: Jerry, thanks again for doing this interview and more than anything else, thanks for sharing such a personal and tragic part of your family’s [...]
On The Shelves
on October 4th, 2012
Olive Senior’s “Dancing Lessons” has been short listed for this year’s Commonwealth Book Prize. Senior, who was born in Jamaica, is now based in Toronto. The Commonwealth Book Prize annually honors debut novels and awards approximately
Former LA Lakers Star, Broadcaster, LA Dodgers Executive Tommy Hawkins Creates a Coffee Book of Narratives
on April 9th, 2012
Mr. Hawkins told me that he had been involved with poetry since his sophomore year at Notre Dame. He was fortunate to have an English Literature professor who specialized in poetry and told us that he would “make it sing in our souls.” In Mr. Hawkins, it succeeded and poetry “still sings in his soul.”
The Stories Of Ordinary Heroes In Landmark Civil Rights Case
on February 23rd, 2012
“Reform,” concluded Martin, “is a word that is often misused. It is change people really mean, change per se with a direction.” A step into history might be just what is needed to go forward with a plan
Dead Woman Pickney
on May 16th, 2011
Yvonne Shorter Brown’s Dead Woman Pickney: A Memoir of Childhood in Jamaica is not just an ordinary autobiography of a young rural ‘brown’ Jamaican girl who unendingly mourns the loss of her biological mother, the absence of whom opened her to physical, emotional and psychological abuse
Girlfriends, Cliques and Politics:Lesley Lokko’s Sundowners
on March 20th, 2010
The sense of intrigue and adventure, the high political stakes, romantic connections and backstabbing, the desire we have to know where life will take the four girls, and the tour we take around the world all the while, provide all the elements we would want to see displayed in a novel.
With the Ticking of the Clock: Helon Habila’s Measuring Time
on October 4th, 2009
His first novel Waiting for an Angel, which was originally published as a collection of short stories won the already accomplished poet and prose fiction writer Helon vingHabila praise and recognition as a contemporary African writer whom, according to the London Times, was able to “filter the political through the personal with such grace”, giving readers a perspective so new it could be compared to a breath of fresh air.
THE UN-COMFORT ZONE: Sometimes You Have to Rip the Cover Off the Book
When you discover someone’s passion, you have discovered what motivates them. And, that is the key to communicating with them in the most productive way possible.