Black Canon

Black Canon, like a shot across the bow, is a literally show that showcases writers from the African diaspora, the beauty and pain in their work, their struggles,, in a tentative to bring African literature back to America and restore a glory lost due to centuries of migrations.

Suheir Hammad Part 2 02/04/2025

Suheir Hammad Part 2 Suheir Hammad is an American poet and essayist born in Palestine and raised in Brooklyn. She is the author of " Born Palestinian, Born Black" and " Drop of this Story" , collections of poems published in 1996. Heavily influence by the hip hop scene, she appears on the HBO show Def Jam Poetry in 2001 after the September 11 attacks on the Twins Towers. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/35147960

Hanif Abdurraqib 04/03/2024

Hanif Abdurraqib Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus Ohio. He is also the recipient of the McArthur Foundation " Genius" grant. His new book " There is always this year...about basketball and ascension is out now. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/30655873

Yessoh GD 04/03/2024

Yessoh GD Yessoh GD was born in Ivory Coast in West Africa. He studied Telecommunications in Morocco and also lived in India for 6 years , where he said he started writing this book, his first published work of fiction, TALE ...Book 1 Knowledge. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/30655668

Hari Ziyad 02/25/2023

Hari Ziyad /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/26031390

Hari Ziyad 02/18/2023

Hari Ziyad Hari Ziyad is an author whose debut novel , Black Boy Out of Time, a story of growing up black and queer in Cleveland Ohio was recognized amongst the best LGBTQ books in 2021. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/25971915

Akbar Hussain 01/31/2023

Akbar Hussain Akbar Hussain is a lawyer and co founder of a successful start up. He lived in Nairobi for 7 years and currently resides in New York City. He was born in India and grew up in Switzterland. Truth is A flightless Bird is his first novel. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/25780542

Fisk University Poetry Event 11/06/2022

Fisk University Poetry Event Poetry by the fire pit is a poetry event organised by students at Fisk Universty, an HBCU in the heart of Nashville in Tennesse. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/24918060

Poetry Workshop Part 2 10/21/2022

Poetry Workshop Part 2 this is our 2nd part of the coverage of the poetry workshop organized by Peter Khan which took place at the Columbus Metropolitan Library. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/24759156

Poetry Workshop Columbus Ohio 10/01/2022

Poetry Workshop Columbus Ohio Poetry event organized by Peter Kahn brought together young writers, Dennison University students, mentor by Barbara Fant(poet), Hanif Abubakarik (poet and novelist) and Malika Brooker(poet fron the UK) for a night of spoken words and poetry. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/24554349

black canon munashe kaseke part 2 09/12/2022

black canon munashe kaseke part 2 We are continuing our conversation with Munashe Kaseke, author of the collection of stories " Send Her Back " which was published July 25 2022 by Mukana Press. She was born and raised in Harare Zimbabwe and immigrated to the United States at age 19 . /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/24348960

Munashe Kaseke 08/30/2022

Munashe Kaseke Munashe Kaseke was born and raised in Harare, Zimbabwe. She migrated to the United States of America at the age nineteen when she received a scholarship to study at Drake University in Des Moines , Iowa. She holds a Doctor of Pharmacy and Master in Public Administration degrees. Munashe currently lives and works in Northern California. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/24208458

James Baldwin 07/23/2022

James Baldwin James Baldwin was an American writer and activist born in Harlem August 2, 1924. As a writer, he ganered acclaim accrossvarious mediums, including essays, novels, plays and poems. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/23834756

Isabel Wilkerson 05/07/2022

Isabel Wilkerson Isabel Wilkerson is an american journalist and author of the book Castes The Origins of our discontent. She was born in Washington DC, graduated from Howard University where she earned a degree in Journalism. She won the Putlizer Prize for her first book The Warmth of Others Sun. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/23036672

Imbolo Mbue 02/21/2022

Imbolo Mbue Imbolo Mbue is a Cameroonian-American novelist and short-story writer based in New York City. She is known for her debut novel Behold the Dreamers, which has garnered her the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Blue Metropolis Words to Change Award. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/22209353

Aime Cesaire 12/13/2021

Aime Cesaire Aime Cesaire is a Martinican and French poet, author, and politician. He was one of the founders of the Negritude movement in francophone literature . He was born June 26, 1913 in BASSE POINTE , MARTINIQUE and died in 2008. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/21460160

Zadie Smith 10/16/2021

Zadie Smith Zadie Smith is a an English novelist, essayist and short-story writer. Her debut novel White Teeth immediately became a best seller and won her number of awards. She is a tenured professor in the creative writing faculty of New York University since 2010. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/20838680

Yaa Gyasi 09/18/2021

Yaa Gyasi Yaa Gyasi ( born in 1989 ) is a ghanaian-american novelist. Her debut novel Homegoing published in 2016 won her at the age of 26, the National Book Critic Circle award and the Pen/Hemingway award . /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/20466236

Nazi Boni 09/14/2021

Nazi Boni Nazi Boni was born December 31, 1909 in Upper Volta now Burkina Faso. He was a politician who was elected to the French National Assembly on behalf of the Voltaic Union. He also was the first writer from Burkina Faso to ever been published. His novel , Crepuscule des temps anciens, was published in 1962 by Presences Africaines. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/20466188

Ntozake Nsange 05/22/2021

Ntozake Nsange Ntozake is a renowned playwright , poet , and novelist. Her works include " Some Sing, Some Cry", which she wrotes with Ifa Bayeza; " Betsy Brown " . /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/19199714

Sembene Ousmane 04/19/2021

Sembene Ousmane God's Bits of Wood is 1960 novel by the Senegalese author Sembene Ousmane about a railroad strike in colonial Senegal in the 1940s. it was first published in French under the tittle Les Bouts de bois de Dieu. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/18774671

Barack Obama 04/10/2021

Barack Obama A Promise Land is a memoir by Barack Obama , the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. It was published November 17, 2020 by Crown Publishing Group. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/18661661

Black History Month 03/02/2021

Black History Month We are continuing our celebration of Black history month by listening to spoken words by Shihan, Bassey Ikpi, and many more and also exploring more historical events part of the black experience in this country. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/18157700

Black History Month 02/23/2021

Black History Month We are celebrating black history month by having a little bit of fun on the show. We are listening to spoken word performances by Sekou the Misfit and Steve Connell and at the same time learning a few facts about the black experience in the US. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/18060605

Gaston Kelman 01/31/2021

Gaston Kelman Gaston Kelman was born in Cameroon September 1, 1953. He arrived in France in1982. He is the Directeur de l'observatoir du Syndicat d'Agglomeration Nouvelle de la ville d'Evry for over 12 years. He published his first book " je suis noir et je n'aime pas le manioc " which immediately becamer a best seller. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/17756930

Toni Morrison 01/16/2021

Toni Morrison Toni Morrison is an American novelist. Born Chloe Anthony Wofford in Lorain Ohio February 18, 1931, she published her first novel " The Bluest Eyes" in 1970 after a successful career as a publisher for Random House. Song Of Solomon was her 3rd novel and the first centered around the black male experience in the United States. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994 and is to this day probably the most interesting american writer. /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/17573039

Tanehisi Coates 01/02/2021

Tanehisi Coates Tanehisi Coates is an American author and journalist. He was born September 30, 1975 and gained a wide readership during his time as a correspondent for the Atlantic. He is the author of " A Beautiful Struggle", "Between The World And Me", " We Were Eight Years In Power", and also lately,a novel published in 2019, " The Water Dancer" /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/17397860

Assia Djebbar " So Vast The Prison " 11/14/2020

Assia Djebbar " So Vast The Prison " Promoting African Literature /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/16781846

Grand Corps Malade , Abd Al Malik 11/07/2020

Grand Corps Malade , Abd Al Malik promoting African literature /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/16682603

Calixthe Beyala 10/24/2020

Calixthe Beyala Celabrating african literature /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/16501178

Toni Morrisson and Kendrick Lamar 09/28/2020

Toni Morrisson and Kendrick Lamar promoting African literature /episode/index/show/blackcanon/id/16177115

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