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Nikkolas Smith, the bestselling illustrator, has a new children's book that takes a look at the innovative, creative dawn of ...
At the heart of the debate is therefore simple economics. But, as The Granta Book of the African Short Story shows, wherever and by whomever they are published, Africa has writers of depth and ...
Who knew Africa had stone circles to rival Stonehenge? We have a heart-warming visit to a small ... a British retiree enamored of the book Roots who wants to trace the slave trade route, some ...
Sponsor Message Though Ninson began his journey with commercial photography, he soon shifted his focus to stories closer to his heart ... Africa that held such stories. Akin to coffee table books ...
Her book is many things ... Sign up The story of Keira and Max keeps spooling back: to the first human heart transplant in South Africa in 1967, performed by Christiaan Barnard; to the development ...
My Traitor’s Heart. By Rian Malan. Grove Atlantic; 368 pages; $17. Vintage; £12.99 Many books ... life story is of course heroic, but he wrote his memoir before he became South Africa’s ...
In a forthcoming book she argues that “the future of the United States is in Black Africa”, since it will be the fastest-growing source of migrants. She notes that the Nigerian, Ethiopian ...
Lida Clanton Broner was also an activist, and during her trip she lectured and circulated among South Africa's Black intellectual elite. She also collected art, and in a new book, “The Activist ...
An Ohio man has drawn widespread backlash after he reportedly checked out and then burned 100 books on Jewish history, African American history and LGBTQ+ education. The man took the books from ...
Email your story to: lifestyle@thestar.com.my with the subject "Heart and Soul". The image of Africa from my primary schooldays was always embedded in my mind as the “dark continent”.
Instead of building a story on the typical Western mythology around mermaids, Bowen chose to draw from West Africa. Author Natasha Bowen reading her book "Skin of the Sea." (Courtesy of Natasha ...