Shade+Shadows Book

Loved it. These are stories that we HAVE to hear, that DEMAND being told. It is not an easy read, but this is what I love about literature: its ability to make politics personal, and to transform our abstract conceptions of social conflict into something very real and visceral and relevant. Not only was I moved by every single poem and essay and speech and excerpt, but I also greatly expanded my to-read list because now I want to read more work by many of the authors in this collection (e.g., Chris Abani, Chenjerai Hove, Ken Saro-wiwa, many others) and learn more about the political conflicts and social injustices that they are/were writing about.