Category: AfroCanada

  • Lancement du livre : Le Canada en Afrique, 300 ans d’aide et d’exploitation

    Lancement du livre : Le Canada en Afrique, 300 ans d’aide et d’exploitation

    Quoi? Lancement du livre : Le Canada en Afrique, 300 ans d’aide et d’exploitation” par Yves Engler Book launch: Canada in Africa 300 years of aid and exploitation by Yves Engler Qui? Organized by GRILA, Group for Research and Initiative for the Liberation of Africa Event sponsored by Council of Canadians (Montréal), Concordia Student Union and Black Students’…

  • Yejide Kilanko

    Yejide Kilanko

    Yejide Kilanko was born in Ibadan, Nigeria and currently lives with her young family in Ontario, Canada. A therapist in children’s mental health, she holds bachelor degrees in Political Science (University of Ibadan) Social Work (University of Victoria) and a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Windsor. Her best-selling debut novel, Daughters…

  • 3 Young Afro-Canadians writers you should know in 2013

    3 Young Afro-Canadians writers you should know in 2013

    THIS POST WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON AFROKANLIFE.COM Black people, in General, have been in Canada for over four centuries. Although they have been contributing greatly to Canadian cultural, social and political life, the literary offering has been quite limited in the past. Fortunately, black literature from the US was and is still widely available in…

  • Daughters who walk the path by Yejide Kilanko

    Daughters who walk the path by Yejide Kilanko

    I stumbled upon this book unexpectedly. If you have been reading this blog, then you know that I visit my local bookstore, Chapters indigo, quite often. I discovered this book, one of those days. I didn’t know much about the author, but  that was not relevant. If it’s written by an african author, then I…

  • Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan-The story of Jazz and Black People in Germany

    Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan-The story of Jazz and Black People in Germany

    I read this book in late 2012. Even today, I can’t find a word strong enough to describe how I felt afterward . When I picked it up at Chapter’s Indigo on Saint Catherine street, I didn’t know much about the author or the book. The only thing that attracted me was that the author…

  • The Book of Negroes By Lawrence Hill

    First of all, I have to say that this book just blow my mind. I haven’t read a lot of slavery inspired novel in my life but this one will forever be close to my heart. I really enjoyed reading it all the way through. Who is the author? Lawrence is a half black, canadian…