Towards the end of Yaa Gyasi’s tremendous family saga “Homegoing,” a Ghanaian teacher with revolutionary aspirations lectures his students on a problem of history: We need to rely on others’ words to ...
Carlton Daniel Jr., creator and writer of the short film Homegoing, featured at the 2021 American Black Film Festival, sat down with theGrio and opened up about his film, Black queer storytelling at ...
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake,” wrote James Joyce in Ulysses. Yaa Gyasi, a writer with a rich talent for visceral story-telling, is part of the wake-up crew. Ancestral curses ...
If you’ve been paying any attention to pop culture, you’ve probably noticed an uptick in slavery narratives, particularly in Hollywood. The most recent is the History channel’s remake of “Roots,” the ...
After two half sisters are separated, we follow their family lines over the course of two centuries through a series of short stories. Some of their descendants are in Africa, some are in America; ...
Yaa Gyasi’s highly anticipated debut novel “Homegoing’’ begins with a birth and a fire. As Cobbe Otcher’s daughter Effia enters the world on Africa’s Gold Coast in the middle of the 18th century, a ...
The story of one of the summer’s most-anticipated novels begins with a trip to Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle—a symbol in stone of slavery and the walls built to ignore it. Yaa Gyasi was a college ...
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