If upon reading the title of Edwidge Danticat's novel Claire of the Sea Light your mind conjures words like poetry and fairytale, the same happened to me. But if…

It is funny how when we look back through memory things shift into such perspective that we are easily able to identify specific decisions and moments which made…

Before Ghana Must Go, Taiye Selasi's essay, "Bye-Bye Babar" made me a fan of her writing and wit. If you have read this blog long enough you know I…

To read a novel and identify so easily and relate so often is for me a rare experience. This made it somewhat agonizing to put down Chimamanda Ngozi…

First things first, I am not of the "I love writing book reviews" camp. But since life is short, and this sort of writing is favorable to my…