This review is for the 2nd Annual Ghanaian Literature Week event hosted by Kinna Reads, which takes place from 11/14 – 11/20. Follow along on Kinna’s blog or on Twitter via the #GhanaLit hashtag. Ama Ata Aidoo is a writer who’s been on my TBR list for ages, but up until now, I’d never read any ofContinue reading “No Sweetness Here and Other Stories”
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Rape New York
On January 25, 2001, a man entered Jana Leo’s Harlem apartment as she walked inside to put down her groceries. He “nonviolently” raped her at gunpoint, then calmly told her that he’d kill her if she went to the police. In the months that immediately followed the rape, Leo struggled to get her life backContinue reading “Rape New York”