90th birthday of Mariama Bâ

(Born 17 April 1929, Dakar, Sénégal)

NOVELIST and influential intellectual, author of the seminal Une si longue lettre (1979)/So Long a Letter (1981)

(Red Garland Quintet, “All mornin’ long” [personnel: Garland, piano; Donald Bryd, trumpet; John Coltrane, tenor saxophone; George Joyner, bass; Art Taylor, drums;  recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, US, 15 November 1957]) 

*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is the author of African Literature in Defence of History: An essay on Chinua Achebe (2001) and co-author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, of Why #DonaldTrump is #great for #Africa (2018)

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77th birthday of Ama Ata Aidoo

(Born 23 March 1942, Saltpond, Ghana)

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe 

DISTINGUISHED poet, playwright, novelist, academic

(Alice Coltrane Trio, “Oceanic beloved” [personnel: Coltrane, harp;  Jimmy Garrison, bass; Rashied Ali, drums; recorded: Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York, US, 6 June 1968]) 

*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is the author of African Literature in Defence of History: An essay on Chinua Achebe (2001) and Readings from Reading: Essays on African History, Genocide, Literature (2011)

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76th birthday of Ama Ata Aidoo

(Born 23 March 1942, Saltpond, Ghana)

 Distinguished poet, novelist, playwright, academic

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77th birthday of Ama Ata Aidoo

(Born 23 March 1940, Saltpond, Ghana)

 Distinguished poet, novelist, playwright, academic

(Alice Coltrane Trio, “Lovely sky boat” [personnel: Coltrane, harp;  Jimmy Garrison, bass; Rashied Ali, drums; recorded: Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York, US, 6 June 1968]) 

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76th birthday of Ama Ata Aidoo

(Born 23 March 1940, Saltpond, Ghana)

 Distinguished poet, novelist, playwright, academic

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75th birthday of Ama Ata Aidoo

(Born 23 March 1940, Saltpond, Ghana)

Distinguished poet, novelist, playwright, academic

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74th birthday of Ama Ata Aidoo

(Born 23 March 1940, Saltpond, Ghana)

Distinguished poet, novelist, playwright, academic

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