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The US-based writer and translator on his new novel set in 1930s Vienna, his deep connection with the authors he has worked with and why he always returns to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
The Department of French and Francophone Studies, with support from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, and Villa Albertine, invites you to join a conversation with David Diop on April 15 at 3pm in ICC 425. Diop is a celebrated French author who gained widespread acclaim for his 2018 novel […]
Kunal Ray (The Hindu): “Discovering the overlooked writer Maryse Conde from Guadeloupe and questioning the biases in literary spaces and cultures.” Interesting article because it is so easy to forget that not everyone is immersed in and engaged with the world of Caribbean literature. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our…
This slavish project was buried when in the bloody April 22, 1990 aborted coup speech, Major Gideon Orkar gave one of the reasons for the coup as: “The cowing of the university teaching and non-teaching staff by an intended massive purge, using the 150 million dollar loan as the necessitating factor.”
The bosses of the IMF and World Bank try to ensure that the education the former slave colonies receive, are uncritical, if not useless.