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Our literature, written in English, is deeply entwined with colonial era

Goldman wrote "Kellerman's Anthem" from “Dirty Dancing” for his wife, who wrote the movie.

William “Will” Howarth, professor of English, emeritus, and eminent Thoreau scholar and environmental humanist, died of interstitial lung disease at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center on June 6. He was 82.

Kenyan literary scholar Simon Gikandi says you can’t understand the rise of European culture — or for that matter, the formation of the modern world — without also knowing how European thinkers demonized Africans and the very idea of "blackness."

Taiye Selasi (born 2 November 1979) is a British-American writer and photographer. Of Nigerian and Ghanaian origin, she describes herself as a (...)

Consumers are increasingly immersing themselves in the digital world and a growing number of brands are listening and entering this space...

Simon Gikandi, the Robert Schirmer Professor of English and chair of the Department of English, and Chika Okeke-Agulu, professor of art and archaeology and African American studies and director of the Program in African Studies, have been elected corresponding fellows of the British Academy.

The Congolese Plantation Workers Art League are launching NFTs during Art Basel to help buy their land back.

The African Novel at the Vanguard - Volume 9 Issue 2

Conclusively, the language question is quite complex and the minister’s proposal to me is an open-air invite for academics and society at large to rethink this question. Perhaps we should...