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New Books in Literature"Michigan Quarterly Review" magazineChandrica Barua is the Nonfiction and Online Editor for MQR. A PhD candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature, her dissertation focuses on encounters between imperial objects and colonial bodies in the British Empire, especially in British India. She hails from Assam, India.What draws an editor to a particular essay? In Chandrica Barua’s case, her criteria definitely include: whether the essay is inventive in form (for instance, by being a hybrid or “braided” essay that brings together different topical strands) and if it surprises the reader by where it goes. Also of note are fact...2024-02-2230 min
Great New American Essays"Michigan Quarterly Review" magazineChandrica Barua is the Nonfiction and Online Editor for MQR. A PhD candidate in the Department of English Language and Literature, her dissertation focuses on encounters between imperial objects and colonial bodies in the British Empire, especially in British India. She hails from Assam, India.What draws an editor to a particular essay? In Chandrica Barua’s case, her criteria definitely include: whether the essay is inventive in form (for instance, by being a hybrid or “braided” essay that brings together different topical strands) and if it surprises the reader by where it goes. Also of note are fact...2024-02-2230 min
Books & Rhymes: The PodcastCulture Interlocutor: Kintu with Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiWhat challenges do African writers encounter when attempting to publish literary fiction that exclude the white gaze? What is the real value of winning literary prizes such as the Kwani! manuscript project? What power do literary editors have in steering a writer’s career? Our guest Jennifer Nansubuga Mamukbi, award winning author whose novels include Kintu (pronounced ChinTu), The First Woman (published as A Girl Is A Body of Water in the USA), and the short Story collection, Manchester Happened (published as Let’s Tell This Story Properly in the USA), situate Ugandan mythology in t...2021-01-111h 56
Glocal CitizensEpisode 32: Storytelling Sans Frontieres with Chiké Frankie Edozien Part 2Greetings Glocal Citizens! We have another two-part conversation featuring writer, journalist, professor and currently Director of New York University Accra, Chiké Frankie Edozien. Like me, NYU is also his alma mater. Frankie, who continues to teach while he leads the Accra program, was named one of the Top 50 journalism professors for 2012 by Journalsimdegree.org. In 2017 he was awarded the university’s prestigious Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty award for excellence in teaching, leadership, social justice and community building. And even more kudos, Frankie’s 2017 memoir, The Lives of Great Men, is a Lambda Book Award winner.
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Glocal CitizensEpisode 31: Storytelling Sans Frontieres with Chiké Frankie EdozienGreetings Glocal Citizens! We have another two-part conversation featuring writer, journalist, professor and currently Director of New York University Accra, Chiké Frankie Edozien. Like me, NYU is also his alma mater. Frankie, who continues to teach while he leads the Accra program, was named one of the Top 50 journalism professors for 2012 by Journalsimdegree.org. In 2017 he was awarded the university’s prestigious Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty award for excellence in teaching, leadership, social justice and community building. And even more kudos, Frankie’s 2017 memoir, The Lives of Great Men, is a Lambda Book Award winner.
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Books & Rhymes: The PodcastConfronting Erasure (Part Two): Lives of Great Men with Chike Frankie EdozienIn the concluding conversation on his memoir, Lives of Great Men, Chike Frankie Edozien offers greater depth into his career as a journalist in the United States of America (USA). We use a specially curated soundtrack as a musical backdrop to discuss Edozien's experience as one of few African Journalists who covered the highly publicised case against the New York police department for the racial profiling and murder of Guinean student, Amadou Diallo. Edozien elaborates on the importance of professional bodies such as the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in propelling the careers of aspiring journalists. We...2019-10-0700 min
Books & Rhymes: The PodcastConfronting Erasure (Part One): Lives of Great Men with Chike Frankie EdozienJournalist and Lambda award winning author, Chike Frankie Edozien, offers an intimate portrait of his life in his memoir, Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man. We begin the discussion with Edozien’s reaction to the attention the memoir has garnered (including winning the 2018 Lambda literary award), after which we reflect on the importance of being reviewed critically by astute readers, coming of age as same gender loving young man in Nigeria, the criminalisation of homosexuality in West Africa, and the circumstances that compelled Edozien to pursue a career in journalism.2019-09-3000 min
Jaipur BytesFrom Legal to Normal: A conversation with Chiké Frankie EdozienChiké Frankie Edozien, author of "Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man", in conversation with Jaipur Bytes host Lakshya Datta. In this podcast-exclusive conversation, Frankie talks to Lakshya about his time at the Jaipur Literature Festival 2019, what it was like to be in India soon after Section 377 was abolished, what the ruling in India meant for the LGBTQ community in African countries where they’re still fighting for legality and equality, and why the journey from legal to normal is going to take time. Frankie is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Arthur L. Car...2019-09-1930 min
Nipe StoryLAST NIGHT IN ASABA by Chike Frankie EdozienSometimes we just have to face the music.2018-10-3026 minNipe StoryLAST NIGHT IN ASABA by Chike Frankie EdozienSometimes we just have to face the music.2018-10-3026 min
Brothaspeak Podcast"Lives of Great Men" by Chike Frankie Edozien..The FIRST Gay Nigerian Memoir . Ep. 55In this podcast episode, we converse with award winning Journalist and now Author, Chike Frankie Edozien. We discuss the life in africa for the LGBTQ, transitioning to America, career, and the book. HIGHLIGHTS: Career How the book came about To be LGBTQ in Africa Transitioning to America Sharing of storied from his book CHIKE FRANKIE EDOZIEN www.edozien.net Instagram - @livesofgreatmen Twitter - @Livesgreatmen Facebook - Frankie Edozien BROTHASPEAK PODCAST www.Brothaspeakpod.net Brothaspeak Podcast where we discuss bl...2018-01-2838 min