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...sounding like thunder.” Born in America, Iweala comes from a Nigerian family. The novel is the product of his senior creative-writing thesis, which he completed under the tutelage of Visiting Lecturer on African American Studies and on English Language and Literature Jamaica Kincaid. “I knew right away that it was something that should be read by as many people as possible,” Kincaid said in her introduction to the reading yesterday. “Beasts of No Nation” was published this year by HarperCollins, and Iweala has toured...
...Austin. "They see it as a silver bullet." But bullets wound; and skilled workers often understandably put the interests of their families before those of their countries, choosing to work abroad so they can send remittances back home. About eight out of 10 college graduates from Haiti and Jamaica live outside their countries, and about half the college graduates of Sierra Leone and Ghana have also emigrated, according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. Remittances to poor countries can also mask the fact that they don't produce much at home. In the western Mali...
...story of Agu, a child soldier in an unnamed African country. “Beasts” was originally written as a creative thesis in Harvard’s English Department under the guidance of Visiting Lecturer on African American Studies and on English and American Literature and Language, Jamaica Kincaid. At Harvard, Iweala was a Mellon Mays Scholar, and his thesis won a Hoopes Prize. To his surprise, the thesis turned into a novel after Kincaid gave the manuscript to her literary agent. As Iweala explains in a phone interview, he was first struck by the stories of child...
...Rich Or Die Tryin’,” which is loosely based on his life story.That story is the stuff of legends. 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, grew up without a father in the drug-plagued New York neighborhood of South Jamaica, Queens. He started selling crack at the age of 12 after his mother—a dealer herself—was murdered. Jackson almost suffered the same fate. A near-fatal shooting in 2000 left him with nine bullet wounds but sent his life in a different direction: music.By all accounts, 50?...
Even as famed scholars have left, new ones are on the way, there is reason enough to be optimistic about the future of a department that still retains luminaries like Gates, Jamaica Kincaid, and Guyser University Professor William Julius Wilson. In addition to the new faculty appointments, the increased focus on African Studies and the opening of a unified Du Bois Institute reflect a department that is primed for the future...