Criticism
Maya Binyam’s “Hangman”
A review of the debut novel about an expatriate’s homecoming. (The New Yorker)Maya Binyam’s “Hangman”
Dorothy Ashby
An essay on the pioneering jazz harpist. (The New Yorker)Dorothy Ashby
Samuel Fosso’s Century in Selfies
A review of an exhibition of the photographer’s self-portraits in Princeton. (The New Yorker)Samuel Fosso’s Century in Selfies
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”
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