Archive - Afro • Reads

Live with Afro • Reads

A recording from Afro • Reads's live video

Jun 30 •

18:51

Afterlives: A Forgotten History

An author with an ‘uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures…

Jun 23 •

Looking For Afro-Surrealism? I Found It In Zimbabwe

Ep. 3 Audio Bookcast

Jun 20 •

28:44

A Community Reading of Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing

“The family is like the forest: if you are outside it is dense; if you are inside you see that each tree has its own position.” - Akan Proverb

Jun 19 •

An African Classic: The River Between

Language, any language, has a dual character: it is both a means of communication and a carrier of culture - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Book review #8 out of 54

Jun 9 •

The Magic of Mourning: Ayanna Banwo’s Ode to Trinidadian Culture

“You have not forgotten how to fly. For what is more woman than holding death and life, sky and earth in your body same time, to fly while earthbound?”

Jun 4 •

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