The Center of the World: Writing from Cabo Verde
Islands Running across the Globe
Right from the start, Cabo Verdean concepts of identity and individuality were defined by this mixed reality: the African and the European, in all their diverse and contrasting characteristics.
On Beginnings
Inert stone, atomic, nuclear before life.
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A Form of African Identity
It was only very gradually that we came to understand that the Europeans, out of malice or simple ignorance, had instilled in us our reluctance to accept our condition as Africans.
Cabo Verde Is the Center of the World
In those days the island of Boa Vista was the whole world.
See-the-Sea
Are all of us accidents wandering through other people’s lives?
Voices from the Pandemic: A New Series for These COVID-19 Times
Words Without Borders launches a new series of literary responses to the COVID-19 crisis from around the world.
Wuhan Lockdown Diary
"It was not my plan to start writing a diary, let alone keep doing it for seventy-seven days."
6:00 p.m. after the Quarantine
“The world will remain untouchable and unknowable, whether you’re in its corona or not.”
From the Red Desert
"I write to you from the red zone."
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