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The new satire from the author of Radio Sunrise.Who will be the next president of the Society of Journalists in Lagos? Who is qualified to lead the esteemed body of journalists and help uphold professional ethics in the state? Will honesty and integrity be able to beat charisma and misinformation?When a sick man flies in from a neighbouring country, he becomes Nigeria’s first ebola case—patient zero. As the cases rise and journalists across the country vie for the lead in reporting the news on the imminent pandemic, Ifiok and his colleagues mus... + Read More
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There is a growing urgency, in classrooms as well as in publishing at large, to encompass the African American experience, African American thought and culture. Much of the recent headway has been made in the superhero framework, including Black Panther, but not only there. The tremendous success—in sales and prizes—of March, the trilogy based upon the life of Congressman John Lewis, is arguably a landmark. No greater figure exists in African-American thought, the shaping of modern narratives, than W.E.B. Du Bois, even after the nearly six deca... + Read More
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Storm is the most recognized Black woman comic book character in the world. Born Ororo Munroe, Storm is an Omega level mutant, which makes her one of the most powerful beings on the planet. Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero examines the multifaceted dimensions of the comic book character seeking to discover if Storm's nearly unlimited power equally offers her freedom within the "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy." Adopting Patricia Hill Collins' Controlling Images as essential to the representation ... + Read More
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A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a "Grand Master" of Science Fiction. Her Caribbean-inspired narratives—Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon's Arms, The Chaos, and Sister Mine—project complex futures and complex identities for people of color in terms of race, sex, and gender. Hopkinson has always had a vested interest in expanding racial and ethnic diversity in all facets of... + Read More