Maxims
Premise: Books Are Weapons recognizes the revolutionary effect literacy can have on reclaiming our independence from the confines of mediocrity. Literacy enables the self-determination necessary to enjoying the basic human rights. Literacy, bring a tool for coming to terms with one’s otherness, effects a change of consciousness more significantly than any other stimulant to the mind. […]
Paul Robeson’s thoughts on the Morris Jumel Mansion.
“I am an American. From my window I gaze out upon a scene that reminds me how deep-going are the roots of my people in this land. Across the street, carefully preserved as an historic site, is a colonial mansion that served as a headquarters for General George Washington in 1776, during desperate and losing […]
“I Am Mad About Nigerian Literature …”
“I am mad about Nigerian literature”…says Kurt Thometz, American who sells Nigerian books in New York. By HENRY AKUBUIRO (ifeanyi_mcdaniels@yahoo.com) Lagos Sun, Sunday, February 19, 2006 The world is indebted to Harlem in New York, USA, for its contribution to world literature and art. The Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s was an epoch in American history […]
