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Two book festivals – Pa Gya! and Aké Arts and Book Festival – will both take place soon. Pa Gya! A Literary Festival in Accra, organised by the Writers Project of Ghana and hosted by the Go...

https://kinnareads.com/2018/10/15/happening-soon-pa-gya-and-akefest18/

I’m not quite feeling my current format of titling these grouped review posts.  The previous one is “Short Reviews of a Kang, a Clemmons and a Manyika“.  On one hand, a generic “Review ...

https://kinnareads.com/2018/07/19/short-commentary-on-the-end-of-days-far-from-my-father-and-maid-in-sa/

The Six Degrees of Separation meme is hosted by Book Are My Favourite Things.  The idea is to connect a book selected by the host to another book of your choice through six criteria of your choo...

https://kinnareads.com/2018/07/10/six-degrees-of-separation-from-tales-of-the-city-to-nervous-conditions/

I have read a ton of books in previous years but I’ve neglected to comment about  them on this blog (not a surprise).  There are several I want to rescue from the silent abyss and will do so ...

https://kinnareads.com/2018/06/06/short-reviews-of-a-kang-a-clemmons-and-a-manyika/

The Six Degrees of Separation meme is hosted by Book Are My Favourite Things.  The idea is to connect a book selected by the host to another book of your choice through six criteria of your choo...

https://kinnareads.com/2018/05/07/six-degrees-of-separation-from-the-poisonwood-bible-to-ghana-must-go/

I set myself a modest target of reading 50 books this year and already the Goodreads challenge-0-meter tells me I’m 5 books behind schedule.  My reading slowed considerably in the first three ...

https://kinnareads.com/2018/05/02/a-year-to-date-reading-report-and-plans-for-may/

It’s 7:46am in Accra; and since it’s also Saturday April 28, I’m up for Dewey’s 24-hour Readathon,  Planning: how I will do this year’s Readathon. The twice yearly reading event was st...

https://kinnareads.com/2018/04/28/currently-im-up-for-the-readathon/

Some Ghanaian folks who dial the wrong number have the most infuriating manners. Here is a poet’s response. Enjoy! WRONG NUMBER NUMBER TWO No, There’s no “Mr. Coleman” here. And no, no. Y...

https://kinnareads.com/2018/04/25/wrong-number-number-two-by-ama-ata-aidoo-poetrymonth/

Wana Udobang (MissWanaWana) is a journalist, poet and filmmaker. She lives in Lagos. Her spoken word album, In Memory of Forgetting, is available on iTunes. Also do check out her documentaries. (...

https://kinnareads.com/2018/04/24/the-banquet-by-wana-udobang-poetrymonth/

June Jordan was a Caribbean-American poet and essayist, born to Jamaican immigrants in Harlem in 1936, and raised in Bed-Stuy, New York. She was a highly acclaimed poet and essayist. She was prob...

https://kinnareads.com/2018/04/23/oughta-be-a-woman-by-june-jordan/