The Emotional Onion
It’s an ingredient which crosses – cultural, political, geographical – boundaries and yet it does not show a lesser degree of respect wherever it goes.
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Melancholy hope? CA Davids’s How to Be a Revolutionary at the African Book Festival Berlin
“Politics is my first love”, she begins, and it certainly shows as the novel tracks a particular political time and feeling: one where revolutionary hopes give way to futures that fall short of expectation. It is a complex story, succinctly described by the book jacket as “connecting contemporary Shanghai, late Apartheid-era South Africa, and China during the Great Leap Forward and the Tiananmen uprising — and refracting this globe-trotting and time-travelling through [Langston] Hughes’ confessional letters to a South African protégé about the poet’s time in Shanghai [in the 1930s]”.
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Race and Technology
Chude-Sokei explores the historical connections between race and technology. He looks back to the time of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people and works his way through various historical stages to current issues surrounding artificial intelligence.
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Vaters Meer
Vaters Meer follows the thoughts of a boy who has to deal with the loss of his father with great sensitivity.
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5 years of Berlin’s African Book Festival
Now in its fifth year running, taking place from 25-27 August in the Alte Münze at Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, the African Book Festival Berlin, organised by the team at InterKontinental, serves as a vital platform for African literature in Berlin’s — and Germany’s — literary scene.
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Translator Meets Author with Mithu Sanyal and Alta L. Price
A warm invitation to the next poco.lit. Event: A conversation with Mithu Sanyal and Alta L. Price about language, cultural appropriation, cancel culture and humour.
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Les lieux qu’habitent mes rêves
At 190 pages, Les lieux qu’habitent mes rêves (The Places Where My Dreams Reside) is a short novel. It is a thoroughly spiritual book, but one that introduces different forms of spirituality.
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Ideas to postpone the end of the world
Ailton Krenak’s Ideas to postpone the end of the world (translated from Portuguese by Anthony Doyle) is a slim volume bursting with important ideas. Krenak is a philosopher and socio-environmental activist for Indigenous rights from the Krenak homelands along the Doce River.
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poco.lit. community event
We founded poco.lit. just before the start of the Corona pandemic. That’s why we’ve only had a few opportunities to meet you in real life. We would like to change that now and create an opportunity to get to know you: We cordially invite you to our first poco.lit. Community Event with a reading stage.
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Authentic Greens or We ‘Heart’ Dhaniya
Dhaniya in Indian cuisine, cilantro to most North Americans, also referred to as Chinese parsley, coriander gets its name from the plant’s genus, coriandrum sativum.
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