“Adichie could have put the opportunity to address scholars of African literature to much better use by offering a definition of the postcolonial, for...
Author - Tolu Akinwole
Tolu Akinwole is a PhD student in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he recently earned a master’s degree in African Cultural Studies. He is interested in the everyday politics and Afropolitan sensibilities of the African urban space and how these are shown in Anglophone African literature. He is co-editor of the poetry anthology, Our Legacy of Madness.
Tom, agitated by nothing but his own haggard reflection in the mirror and interested in nothing but his research work, perched on a stool in his dingy room...
UNDER THE CANOPY Come here and let us laugh The benign laughter of fools At the race we ran in drooping sacks Across the flowery lane of powdery dreams, Now...