“Wheel and come again” is how Ethlyn once described this circular migration, back and forth from the island, from somewhere to elsewhere, to turn around and start all over again.

The artist is revisiting his three-screen film about the legendary thinker and activist, which takes in jazz, Vietnam, and the family trauma that haunted Hall

In Wole Soyinka’s laceratingly satirical new novel, Nigeria has lost its way and is inured to corruption and violence.

A young man struggles to escape a life of violent crime in this gritty fable about love, faith and redemption

CLR James’s writings on empire and cricket were marked by moral clarity and mischievous provocation

The pioneering African American writer’s nonfiction pieces have a power, depth and courage that still resonate more than 60 years after her death