Literature in Haiti lost an ambassador and icon when Georges Anglade was killed, along with his wife, in the January 2010 earthquake. Anglade was a geographer -- a profession outside the U.S. that has a much broader meaning than cartography -- who served as an anthropologist of ladoyan folktales as...
(3) Comments | Posted February 1, 2012 | 5:43 PM
Two prominent literary festivals in South Asia have torn open debates about the role of the writer. The first festival, widely discussed, is the Jaipur Literature Festival in Rajasthan, India. The second, about four hours away by plane, is the Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka....
Comments | Posted January 23, 2012 | 1:29 PM
Writer Enoh Meyomesse landed in Yaounde, Cameroon, after a trip to Singapore on November 22. As he deplaned, the national police detained him, searched his belongings, and accused him of stealing gold as part of a sophisticated coup d'état against President Paul Biya. A military officer interrogated him in the...
Comments | Posted January 12, 2012 | 12:08 PM
January 12 marks two years since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake exploded out from the epicenter of Léogane towards the capital of Port-au-Prince and the surrounding environs. The world has focused on rebuilding Haiti after this tragedy, but it's important not to lose sight of Haiti's rich traditions. One of them...
Comments | Posted April 30, 2012 | 3:49 PM