Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. Africa is the birthplace of humankind itself, yet little of its ancient and modern history is widely known. An African H…| This Reading Life
On the second of January, in the year 1880, three newly-orphaned sisters, finding themselves left to their own devices, with an income of exactly one hundred pounds a year a-piece, sat down to cons…| This Reading Life
‘The Great Australian Silence’ was how the anthropologist Bill Stanner characterised the history of colonisation and settlement. In a series of consequential lectures in 1968, Stanner m…| This Reading Life
my project for 2024 will be to read one Black African work each month with a review to be published (hopefully!) on the last Tuesday| The Australian Legend