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Photographs Lead Ethiopian Writer to Hidden Story of Women During War January 31, 2021 Author Maaza Mengistes novel “The Shadow King” won international acclaim and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. (Photo courtesy of Nina Subin) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:04:52 0:00 Before writing her most recent novel, Maaza Mengiste began researching the Ethiopian resistance in the 1935 invasion by Italian forces. She discovered photographs of women dressed in mi...

Comic Book Reviews for This Week: 1/27/2021 Welcome to this week in comic book reviews! The staff have come together to read and review nearly everything that released today. It isnt totally comprehensive, but it includes just about everything from DC and Marvel with the important books from the likes of Image, Boom, IDW, Valiant, and more. The review blurbs youll find contained herein are typically supplemented in part by longform individual reviews for significant issues. This week that inclu...

English By Salem Solomon Share on Facebook Print this page WASHINGTON - When novelist Maaza Mengiste began researching the Ethiopian resistance to the 1935 invasion by Italian forces, she came across photographs of women dressed in military attire with rifles slung over their shoulders. As she organized them by date and location, she began to build a picture of the conflict she never learned about in school.   “These women decided to join...

What these 16 entrepreneurs are reading this summer December 22, 2020 For me, Christmas represents a time to commandeer a corner of the couch, stock up on snacks, and dive into fiction and non-fiction alike. The books I am most excited to read and reread are Honeybee by Craig Silvey, To Sleep In A Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini and, of course, Dune by Frank Herbert, because the movie remake looks like it will be phenomenal. So, for those who have similar intentions, but perhaps don’t...

Who Will Fight for Clone Equality in New Mutants #14? [XH] Who Will Fight for Clone Equality in New Mutants #14? [XH] Posted on Welcome to a X-mas week edition of X-ual Healing, the weekly X-Men recap column where we read the seventy-two X-Men comics Marvel publishes every month and tell you what happened. There were four X-books released last week: New Mutants #14, X-Force #15, Wolverine: Black, White, & Blood #2, and Deadpool #9. Sworn to sell comics for Marvel executives who feared and hate...

It’s been a hard winter for the Hulk. The Leader trapped Bruce Banner and most of his alters in Hell, leaving just two personalities inhabiting Hulk’s actual body, which has been drained of gamma energy until he looks more like the Jolly Green Giant. Alone together this Christmas are Joe Fixit, the Vegas wise guy personality, and Devil Hulk, the destructive and child-like “Hulk smash” personality, who’s just looking for a little understanding. Unfortunately, Hulk is in New York City ...

Marvel Brings Back One of the X-Mens Most Powerful Villains ✖ In the Krakoa era of X-Men, heroes and villains live together and work towards a brighter future for all mutants. Still, as the Marauders learned in their dealings with Sebastian Shaw, some "evil" mutants have a more challenging time changing their behaviors than others. New Mutants latest issue, the first for new post- X of Swords writer Vita Ayala, puts a classic X-Men villain back in the spotlight., It seems that this powerful ...

The East African Friday December 18 2020 Summary An emblem of comfort, power, and independence, Hirut’s rifle is a symbol of her future as an extraordinary soldier. As the battle between Italy and Ethiopia intensifies, Hirut demonstrates integrity, resilience, and determination in the face of brutal treatment and imprisonment, ascending to her destiny as a strong and graceful warrior in the powerful novel. Advertisement A new novel by the Ethiopian author Maaza Mengiste titled The Shadow Kin...

Comic Book Reviews for This Week: 12/16/2020 Welcome to this week in comic book reviews! The staff have come together to read and review nearly everything that released today. It isnt totally comprehensive, but it includes just about everything from DC and Marvel with the important books from the likes of Image, Boom, IDW, Valiant, and more. The review blurbs youll find contained herein are typically supplemented in part by longform individual reviews for significant issues. This week that incl...

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize The critics’ top eight choices based on Christmas selections in national newspapers, the London Evening Standard, the TLS, The Spectator and the New Statesman. Plus, we take a look at some of the other best books which were released in 2020.  Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart  The winner of this year’s Booker Prize is a tale of poverty, addiction and abuse set in and around Glasgow in the 1980s. Shuggie Bain’s mother is an alcoholic; hi...