Literature/Readings

Scholars’ Circle – Book author interviews: The fight for Black literacy, women intellectuals of the civil rights movement – February 23, 2025

February 24, 2025March 4, 2025

We honor Black History Month. The South outlawed Black literacy all the way until the Civil War. What was this war on Black literacy and how did educators resist this law? [ dur: 32mins. ] Derek […]

book cover of Ngugi in the American Imperium, shows sketch of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

The Scholars' Circle Interviews

Scholars’ Circle – Decolonizing the mind: a conversation with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o – October 24, 2021

October 23, 2021July 18, 2022

David Lloyd speaks with the world-renowned Kenyan novelist, playwright and poet, critic and widely influential postcolonial theorist, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. They explore the problem of colonization of languages, his commitment to writing in his native language, […]