First as tragedy, second as farce
NoViolet Bulawayo’s novel ‘Glory’ forcefully evokes the Zimbabwean political landscape but struggles to stretch itself beyond the documentarian, vacillating between the journalistic and fictive.
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Farah Bakaari
Farah Bakaari is a doctoral student at Cornell University and researches 20th- and 21st century African literature, postcolonial studies, and trauma theory. She was born and raised in Somaliland.
Warsan Shire’s prayer for the unmourned
The British-Somali poet Warsan Shire’s audacious yet uneven volume of poetry captures the quiet loneliness of African immigrant lives in the West.