217th birthday of Alexandre Dumas

(Born 24 July 1802, Villiers-Cotterêts, France)

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

ONE of the preeminent luminaries of French letters, prolific across genres – novels, drama, travel books, history, journalism – with classics which include The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, Twenty Years Later, The Last Cavalier, Georges

(Miles Davis Quintet, Ascenseur pour l’echafaud {Lift to the scaffold} [personnel: Davis, trumpet; Barney Wilen, tenor saxophone; René Utreger,  piano; Pierre Michelot, bass; Kenny Clarke, drums; recorded: Le Poste Parisien Studio, Paris, France, 4 and 5 December 1957])

******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)

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe

216th birthday of Alexandre Dumas

(Born 24 July 1802, Villiers-Cotterêts, France)

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

ONE of the preeminent luminaries of French letters, prolific across genres – novels, drama, travel books, history, journalism – with classics which include The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, Twenty Years Later, The Last Cavalier, Georges

(Miles Davis Quintet featuring Sonny Stitt, “Autumn leaves” [personnel: Davis, trumpet; Stitt, tenor saxophone; Wynton Kelly, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Jimmy Cobb, drums; recorded: live, L’Olympia, Paris, France, 11 October 1960])

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe