Caroline Kurtz: On Writing Memoir

Caroline Kurtz: On Writing Memoir


With my husband and sons, I moved mid-career to Nairobi, Kenya from a teaching job in Ethiopia. We’d been asked to work for four years with Nuers, the second largest ethnic group in South Sudan. It was a misbegotten and doomed assignment. Trauma from the Sudanese civil war, now in its thirtieth year, pressed on everyone, always, and everywhere. Corruption ruled.

By |2023-04-04T17:31:02+00:00July 8, 2022|Book Reviews, Interviews|

The Children’s Literature – Panel Interview

The Children’s Literature – Panel Interview

How do we represent Africa as a multicultural, multifaceted continent to our readers? How do we embrace diversity in early readers for Africa’s kids? And how do we market our wonderful African stories to a Eurocentric world? In this Zoom discussion five experts explained how to open doors to the rest of the world and how to be proudly African in our offering.

By |2023-04-04T17:31:03+00:00December 9, 2021|Interviews|

“Why is Ethiopia at war?” – Interview

“Why is Ethiopia at war?” – Interview

On 4 November 2020 the Ethiopian government’s federal army led an assault on a group of militias in the Tigray province after numerous, apparently unprovoked, attacks on the official army. A year later the war seems to be escalating, with politicians and diplomats scrambling to stop what could become yet another civil war.

• What is the role of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize,

By |2023-04-04T17:31:03+00:00November 17, 2021|Interviews|
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