This three-part diagram traces the literary feud between Chinua Achebe and Ayi Kwei Armah, as well as Armah’s conflictual relationship with the Heinemann African Writers’ Series, for which Achebe served as editorial advisor until 1972. The conflict was sparked by…
When You Read Suzanne Césaire, You Take Your Koutla
“When you read Suzanne, you take your Koutla.” Those are the words Valérie Adam said to me in Le Bureau d’Aimé Césaire during my last visit to my home country, Martinique. It is also this phrase that reignited the fire…