I’ll speak up, I’ll be fearless, and I swear to never back down until I have prevailed against the powerful trying to lock up the weak in a dark hole.

Behind the bigotry and hyperbole lurk the fear of the unknown, the threat to the status quo.

“Everyone’s queer in this bloody prison!”

Laabaan is a ceremony organized by women for women.

God’s Bits of Wood, first published in 1960 and translated from the French by Francis Price, is not only one of the best novels to have come out of Africa but one of the best political novels of the 20th century.

The heat had loosened their lips and made them quick to speak.

I'd like to tell them their frustrating match is like life: the best goals are always yet to come, it's just that waiting for them is painful.

He gave me everything: the secret of letters, of numbers, the key to the world.