Africa
Abdulrazak Gurnah
A review-essay about the Tanzanian Nobel laureate and his novel Afterlives.” (“Children of the Coast,” The New Yorker)Abdulrazak Gurnah
Marilyn Nance and FESTAC ’77
A review of the African-American photographer’s record of a pan-African festival in Lagos. (The New Yorker)Marilyn Nance and FESTAC ’77
Sisterhood and Slavery in “The Woman King”
A critique of Viola Davis’s film about Dahomey’s all-women warriors. (The New Yorker)Sisterhood and Slavery in “The Woman King”
The Monks Who Took the Kora to Church
A feature on the Senegalese monastery where griot traditions fuse with Catholic liturgy. (The New Yorker)The Monks Who Took the Kora to Church
Africa and the Harlem Renaissance
A review of the artist Isaac Julien’s “Statues Never Die” and the scholar Kobena Mercer’s “Alain Locke and the Visual Arts.” (The New Yorker)Africa and the Harlem Renaissance
Afro-Atlantic Histories
A review of “Afro-Atlantic Histories” at the National Gallery of Art. (The New Yorker)Afro-Atlantic Histories
An Interview with Angélique Kidjo
A conversation with the Beninese music legend. (The New Yorker)An Interview with Angélique Kidjo