Mo Yan, was born in 1955 in Gaomi Township in Shandong Province, a rural area that is the setting for much of his fiction. Mo Yan ("don't speak") is a pseudonym for Guan Moye on the advice of his parents as a school-age boy during the Mao era. The…
A historical play set in the Kenya coastal town of Mombasa during the Portuguese occupation. The story revolves around a local potentate, Hassan bin Yusuf, who attempts without success to avoid war with the Portuguese. It is the only Kenyan Swahili…
A life-long resident of Lawrence, Kansas, Ms. Dillard graduated from the University of Kansas in 1896. She began her teaching career in Lawrence at Pinckney School for their segregated class of African American students. Later, she served as…