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Book Review
No full textBook Review: The La Traviata Affair. By Hilde Roos. pp. xiii + 264. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. ISBN 978- 052029989
Rwanda
No full textBackground: "Classic justice has failed in Rwanda," says Gratien Uwisabye, a Tutsi cultural activist who works for Fest\u27Africa. "We need to explore other forms of justice. There can be no reconciliation between the Hutu and the Tutsi without justice." Fest\u27 Africa is an annual literary festival in Lille, France, run by African writers. Fifty African authors, mostly from Francophone countries, participated in last year\u27s festival. The focus was on Rwanda, particularly on how the memory of the genocide can be preserved through literature and on what role the literary arts can play in bringing about reconciliation
The Zulus of New York
No full textThe Great Farini would stride on to the stage and announce, 'Ladies and gentlemen, and now for the highlight of the day, the ferocious Zulus.' The impresario Farini introduced Em-Pee and his troupe to his kind of show business, and now they must earn their bread. In 1885 in a bustling New York City, they are the performers who know the true Zulu dances, while all around them fraudsters perform silly jigs. Reports on the Anglo-Zulu War portrayed King Cetshwayo as infamous, and audiences in London and New York flock to see his kin. What the gawking spectators don't know is that Em-Pee once carried nothing but his spear and shield, when he had to flee his king. But amid the city's squalid vaudeville acts appears a vision that leaves Em-Pee breathless: in a cage in Madison Square Park is Acol, a Dinka princess on display. For Em-Pee, it is love at first sight, though Acol is not free to love anyone bac
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