ART & CULTURE
Across East Africa, literature has never been merely an art form — it has been a vessel of memory, resistance, and imagination. From Kenya’s colonial twilight to the unhealed echoes of Somalia, Uganda, and Ethiopia, the written word became a second independence movement — one fought in classrooms, in exile, and through languages that refused […]
ART & CULTURE
There are stories that speak — and then there are stories that sing. West Africa’s literary tradition belongs firmly in the latter category. Every line, every rhythm, carries the cadence of the continent’s oldest griots — storytellers who kept memory alive long before ink met paper. Across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these voices have […]