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)

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe

89th birthday of Mariama Bâ

(Born 17 April 1929, Dakar, Sénégal)

NOVELIST and influential intellectual, author of the seminal 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]) 

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe

88th birthday of Mariama Bâ

(Born 17 April 1929, Dakar, Sénégal)

Novelist and influential intellectual, author of the seminal So Long a Letter (1981)

(Alice Coltrane Trio, “I want to see you” [personnel: Coltrane, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Rashied Ali, drums; recorded: Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York, US, 6 June 1968]) 

Twitter@HerbertEkweEkwe