click image for close-up This portrait of Olaudah Equiano was used as the frontispiece (illustration opposite a book's title page) of his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of ...

Equiano was born in Essaka, a small village in Benin, in 1745. His father was an Embrenche, an elder or chief, and oversaw disputes and punishments. He had five brothers and one sister, and was ...

It was the first book written in the English language by an African, and it was called The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. The stories in the book were so powerful that ...

F. N., Okechukwu and A. O., Ugochukwu 2024. Man as Nature’s Prodigal: A Study of Environmental Degradation in South East Nigeria, 1990-2022. Journal of Advanced ...

Olaudah Equiano earned enough to buy his way out of slavery and became a leading abolitionist A river bridge in Cambridge has been renamed after an African anti-slavery activist Olaudah Equiano in ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. By Abby McGanney Nolan How do you explain ...

By J. D. Biersdorfer Our critic on new books by Stephanie Wrobel, Lawrence Robbins and Hildur Knútsdóttir. By Sarah Lyall A graphic tribute to the British novelist who documented the blight ...

These books dispense practical advice on managing one’s ambitions—or describe the dread of writer’s block with precision and humor. A short story has velocity and verve, and the best ones ...

Who should read it: Endless Night is a good book for readers fascinated by plots that grow increasingly unsettling and sinister over time. It is available from HarperCollins Publishers.

It’s no secret that TikTok has the power to skyrocket book sales, and that’s thanks to a subcommunity called BookTok, which brings bibliophiles together virtually. Enthusiastic readers are ...

The collection is presented on this page in chronological order, beginning with Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 1797) and ending with Malorie Blackman (born 1962). However, each of the films is 'stand ...