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

81st birthday of Bessie Head

(Born 6 July 1937, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

ARGUABLY Botswana’s leading writer whose critically acclaimed publications include the novels When Rain Clouds Gather (1968), Maru (1971) and A Question of Power (1973) and the historical study, Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind (1981)

(Alice Coltrane Quintet, “Isis and Osiris” {1&2} [personnel: Coltrane, harp; Pharoah Sanders, soprano saxophone, percussion; Charlie Haden, bass; Vishnu Wood, oud; Rashied Ali, drums; recorded: live, The Village Gate, New York, US, 4 July 1970])

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe

80th birthday of Bessie Head

(Born 6 July 1937, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)

Arguably Botswana’s leading writer whose critically acclaimed publications include the novels When Rain Clouds Gather (1968), Maru (1971) and A Question of Power (1973) and the historical study, Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind (1981)

(Alice Coltrane Quintet, “Isis and Osiris” {1&2} [personnel: Coltrane, harp; Pharoah Sanders, soprano saxophone, percussion; Charlie Haden, bass; Vishnu Wood, oud; Rashied Ali, drums; recorded: live, The Village Gate, New York, US, 4 July 1970])

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe

79th birthday of Bessie Head

(Born 6 July 1937, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)

Arguably Botswana’s leading writer whose critically acclaimed publications include the novels When Rain Clouds Gather (1968), Maru (1971) and A Question of Power (1973) and the historical study, Serowe: Villageof the Rain Wind (1981)

Twitter@HerbertEkweEkwe

78th birthday of Bessie Head

(Born 6 July 1937, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)

Arguably Botswana’s leading writer whose critically acclaimed publications include the novels When Rain Clouds Gather (1968), Maru (1971) and A Question of Power (1973) and the historical study, Serowe: Villageof the Rain Wind (1981)

Twitter@HerbertEkweEkwe

77th birthday of Bessie Head

(Born 6 July 1937, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)

Arguably Botswana’s leading writer whose critically acclaimed publications include the novels When Rain Clouds Gather (1968), Maru (1971) and A Question of Power (1973) and the historical study, Serowe: Village of the Rain Wind (1981)

Twitter@HerbertEkweEkwe