We are always in dialogue with Langston Hughes' short poem Harlem, first published in 1951. I can hear Hughes in the background of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963. I hear Hughes’ poetic ...
It is then sayable, that post-colonial Nigeria is Harlem of the 1930s rebuilt from the ruins of a history that was strangulation, rather than a series of events that progressed geometrically. And Nimi ...