“Readings for Now” Seminar #5: The Subaltern Natives and the Poetics of the Periphery (with Chibụìhè Obi Achịmbà)

Texts for discussion (click to view):

Bell Hooks, “Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness,” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, no. 36 (1989), 15-23

Ben Okri, “A mental tyranny is keeping black writers from greatness,” The Guardian, December 2014

Victor Ehikhamenor, “Give Us Back What Our Ancestors Made,” The New York Times, January 2020

Nnedi Okorafor, “Africanfuturism Defined,” Nnedi's Wahala Zone Blog, October 2019

Chinua Achebe, “Chi in Igbo cosmology,” Young African Pioneer, March 2014

Sofia Samatar, “Black and African writers don’t need instructions from Ben Okri,” The Guardian, December 2014