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IN HIS SONGS, I FOUND MANY ACES I COULD KEEP!
0It will always be easy to remember when Kenny Rogers died. He died at 81 during the nightmarish days of the corona virus and the nightmarish war that continues to desecrate the place I call “home.” In announcing his death his publicist claimed, “His songs have endeared music lovers and touched the lives of millions
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Book Review: My Journey by Teih Belinda Nungse
0Book Title: My Journey Category: Non-Fiction (autobiography) Author: Teih Belinda Nungse Publisher: Page Publishing Inc. Publishing Date: 2019 My Journey by Teih Belinda Nungse is a detailed “no holds barred” memoir of the author’s life from the age of four to the present. The motivation for this memoir is clearly expressed in the introduction, “The
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The Art of Braining
4By Joyce Ashuntantang On this Valentine’s day, I decided to honor some male poets of my youth. These are the boys and young men who composed all those beautiful monologues complete with performance in the name of “braining”. Braining, the way it is done in Cameroon can be rightly considered an art form. The English
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UHart Professor Speaks on Importance of Black History Month
Joyce Ashuntantang, an associate professor of English in the University of Hartford’s Hillyer College, talked to FoxCT about the importance of Black History Month.
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Hartford Loves Poetry Finale
Ashuntantang is hoping that her work will help preserve disappearing Manyu crafts like the asoreh—and she also wants to use her poetry to help preserve Kenyang, one of the disappearing ethnic languages of Cameroon. While the official languages of Cameroon are English and French, the country has more than 200 ethnic languages, many of which…
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Achebe’s insights on the African Diaspora and Baldwin’s comments at the 1980 ALA
An Excerpt of more than an hour long interview with Chinua Achebe by Joyce Ashuntantang, Okey Ndibe, Sowore Omoyele and Oyiza Daba. Prompted by a question from Okey Ndibe, the Master Storyteller tells the story of the ALA conference of 1980 where he and James Baldwin where the keynote speakers. He uses Baldwin’s comments on…
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IN HIS SONGS, I FOUND MANY ACES I COULD KEEP!
0It will always be easy to remember when Kenny Rogers died. He died at 81 during the nightmarish days of the corona virus and the nightmarish war that continues to desecrate the place I call “home.” In announcing his death his publicist claimed, “His songs have endeared music lovers and touched the lives of millions
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Book Review: My Journey by Teih Belinda Nungse
0Book Title: My Journey Category: Non-Fiction (autobiography) Author: Teih Belinda Nungse Publisher: Page Publishing Inc. Publishing Date: 2019 My Journey by Teih Belinda Nungse is a detailed “no holds barred” memoir of the author’s life from the age of four to the present. The motivation for this memoir is clearly expressed in the introduction, “The
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The Art of Braining
4By Joyce Ashuntantang On this Valentine’s day, I decided to honor some male poets of my youth. These are the boys and young men who composed all those beautiful monologues complete with performance in the name of “braining”. Braining, the way it is done in Cameroon can be rightly considered an art form. The English