From the monthly archives:

December 2008

ARC Review #4 – Aya of Yop City, Abouet

28 December 2008

 

 Country: Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa
Author: Marguerite Abouet (& Clement Oubrerie)
Review: This is the continuation of the story started in Aya, about the three friends from Youpougon, the working-class neighbourhood of Côte d’Ivoire of the 1970s, three fairly ordinary young women in a working class neighbourhood (Youpougon, in Abidjan), and their teenage lives. The first book ends with the [...]

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Christmas in Nassau

25 December 2008

is by far the biggest holiday of the year. It’s not just Christmas, of course, though that’s important, a time for sprucing up and family gatherings and very conspicuous consumption, but also because of Junkanoo, which happens on Boxing Day and then again on New Year’s Day. If you’re lucky, there’s a cold snap and [...]

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R.I.P. Harold Pinter

25 December 2008

 
How Pinteresque, to die on Christmas Eve.
LONDON (AP) — Harold Pinter, praised as the most influential British playwright of his generation and a longtime voice of political protest, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 78.
Pinter, whose distinctive contribution to the stage was recognized with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, [...]

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R.I.P. Hubert Farrington December 12, 1924-December 8, 2008

10 December 2008

For those of you who hadn’t heard, Hubert Farrington, the first Bahamian classical dancer (that I know of) and the founder of the Nassau Civic Ballet, was knocked down and killed on Sunday past. (I’m not clear exactly which date he was killed, but as I heard of his death two days ago, I’m guessing [...]

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Bahamas International Film Festival Opening – Maria Govan’s Rain

5 December 2008

I went. I saw. It conquered.
Kudos to Maria. I’ll be back later to amend this post and add thoughts and observations.
But in short: it was a fine opening film for the Festival. Well done to all.

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Announcing tongues of the ocean

3 December 2008

 
tongues of the ocean is an online literary journal of Bahamian, Caribbean and related poetry. We’re an affiliate of the Bahamas International Literary Festival, but BILF isn’t responsible for what we decide to do (so don’t blame them!). We publish three times a year - in February, June, and October. We reserve the right to be picky [...]

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