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December 30, 2020

December 30, 2020

How Tsitsi Dangarembga, with Her Trilogy of Zimbabwe, Overcame

Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions, is a modern classic, and after The Book of Not, she concludes Tambu’s story with the Booker Prize-shortlisted This Mournable Body. But the literary and film icon never planned for these to take almost four decades.
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Tsitsi Dangarembga.

December 30, 2020

Tsitsi Dangarembga Is on the December 2020 Cover of Open Country Mag

Icon in African literature. Icon in Zimbabwean film. Our debut cover story had to be on a writer whose work lights a way.
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Open Country Mag Reissues Cover of Tsitsi Dangarembga

December 30, 2020

Toni Morrison’s Personal Collection of 1,200+ Books

They include books by and about Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gayl Jones, Henry Dumas, James Baldwin, Mark Twain, the Obamas, and the Clintons.
Ernest Ogunyemi
Toni Morrison's personal library. Credit: Brown Harris Stevens.

December 30, 2020

Jerry Chiemeke’s Debut, Dreaming of Ways to Understand You, Out in Print

The story collection “chronicles the dreams and desperations of a disillusioned demographic.”
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Dreaming of Ways to Understand You by Jerry Chiemeke. Credit: Jerry Chiemeke.

December 30, 2020

Tsitsi Dangarembga.

How Tsitsi Dangarembga, with Her Trilogy of Zimbabwe, Overcame

Her debut novel, Nervous Conditions, is a modern classic, and after The Book of Not, she concludes Tambu’s story with the Booker Prize-shortlisted This Mournable Body. But the literary and film icon never planned for these to take almost four decades.
Otosirieze

December 30, 2020

Open Country Mag Reissues Cover of Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangarembga Is on the December 2020 Cover of Open Country Mag

Icon in African literature. Icon in Zimbabwean film. Our debut cover story had to be on a writer whose work lights a way.
Otosirieze

December 30, 2020

Toni Morrison's personal library. Credit: Brown Harris Stevens.

Toni Morrison’s Personal Collection of 1,200+ Books

They include books by and about Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gayl Jones, Henry Dumas, James Baldwin, Mark Twain, the Obamas, and the Clintons.
Ernest Ogunyemi

December 30, 2020

Dreaming of Ways to Understand You by Jerry Chiemeke. Credit: Jerry Chiemeke.

Jerry Chiemeke’s Debut, Dreaming of Ways to Understand You, Out in Print

The story collection “chronicles the dreams and desperations of a disillusioned demographic.”
Otosirieze

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