#ken bugul

“I love solitude.

If I had to make a choice forever, I’d choose being alone.

It’s not that I want to be on my own.

The problem is freedom.”

5.20.19 // afternoon

Dressed up to spend the day in the library grading final papers. I'm allowing myself the luxury of reading for pleasure once the library closes--and reading in the warmth of the sun, at that.

Today I got an email from my DGS that the department needs a grader for a course, and that it can combine with my grading position in another department, which has already been established. More jobs = less money stress.

Prix National Cénacle du Livre Senegal winners announced.

Tabara Niang, Maguèye Toure, and Elaz Ndongo Thioye won in their categories at the Prix National Cénacle du Livre Senegal at the Pullman Hotel in Dakar. The announcement was made at a grand celebration of Senegalese literature on Saturday, June 11, 2022. Prix National Cénacle du Livre Senegal is an initiative from Cénacle des Jeunes Écrivains du Sénégal to promote books and writers, and intends…

LE LIVRE DE LA SEMAINE. A travers le destin de trois compagnons d’infortune, l’autrice sénégalaise dresse une radiographie d’un monde où les laissés-pour-compte se comptent par millions.

LE LIVRE DE LA SEMAINE. A travers le destin de trois compagnons d’infortune, l’autrice sénégalaise dresse une radiographie d’un monde où les laissés-pour-compte se comptent par millions. Les premières lignes du Trio bleu, le nouveau livre de l’écrivaine sénégalaise Ken Bugul, frappent par leur simplicité : dans la pénombre d’une chambre, un homme s’éveille et va ouvrir sa fenêtre. « Il regarde…

I'm writing a my Honours thesis this year, staring out at the park, surrounded by my beloved collection of plants and flowers....and, you guessed it, it's an ecocritical reading of Ken Bugul's The Abandoned Baobab.

Ecocriticism is a field of literary study that looks at the relationship between humans and their environment. Especially in our time of ecological crisis, I think it's an incredibly important topic: whether we look at it in books, TV, science, or our everyday life. Additionally, I'm interested in how it intersects with post colonialism, feminism, societal oppression and embodied knowledge.