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Zadie Smith’s ‘Swing Time’

Zadie Smith’s ‘Swing Time’

Alvan Azinna Ikoku
Fiction

Zadie Smith presents her fifth novel, Swing Time, a fluid meditation, by way of a cross-racial relationship between two female protagonists, on race, class, geopolitics, dance, storytelling, and history as they manifest in London, New York, and West Africa.

David Olusoga’s ‘Black and British’

David Olusoga’s ‘Black and British’

Alvan Azinna Ikoku
History

In Black and British, David Olusoga reveals the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa, drawing on new genetic and genealogical research, original records, expert testimony, and contemporary interviews to take readers through a vital and shared history.

Lisa Lowe’s ‘The Intimacies of Four Continents’

Lisa Lowe’s ‘The Intimacies of Four Continents’

Alvan Azinna Ikoku
Literary History

In The Intimacies of Four Continents, Lisa Lowe reads across historical archives and literary canons in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas of the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-centuries to connect the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within colonial conditions.