nat creole. magazine


no. 9 may 2006

+booklist

Fresh Sliced Fruit by Brook Stephenson
If rigorous academic readings bear fruit in knowledge,
then reading for interest or pleasure must bear similar fruit in imagination


Black Girl Lost
Donald Goines 
ISBN: 087067949X
Genre: Popular/street fiction


Total Chaos
Jean-Claude Izzo
ISBN:
1-933372-04-4
Genre: Fiction/French Authors, int'l


Tsotsi
Athol Fugad
ISBN: 0802142680
Genre: Fiction/African authors, int'l

A Detroit writer who was as addicted to drugs as the characters and stories he told. Black Girl Lost is one of many street fiction works that captures and grips and at the end...

“The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” It’s about the heart of prejudice and it’s cure.
Read it.

This book turned multiple film festival award winner was outlined in 1960 but was not published until 1980 by well-established South Afrikan playwright Athol Fugad. He illustrates mood and setting like an impressionist painter.


You Must Set Forth at Dawn

Wolye Soyinke
ISBN: 037550365X           
Genre: Memoir/Biography


Blink
Malcom Gladwell
ISBN:
0316172324
Genre: Business/culture


Burnt Bread and Chutney:A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Childhood
Carmit Delman
ISBN: 0345445945
Genre: Memoir

Do not look for the tell all dirty personal secrets here. Soyinke doesn’t agree with making personal life public. Look more for the details of run ins with world citizens, inprisonment and Nigerian political parties, people and revolutions and Soyinke’s part in them. We have many issues in post-colonial Africa as Fraznen studied it. Many are frightening real. Let Wole Soyinke tell it.

A French translation that has been made into films overseas, Total Chaos is the first in a crime trilogy centered around three youth, two indulged their lives in crime and the third in escape from it, until the other two are murdered within days of each other twenty years later and he returns home to investigate.

The book begins with her telling the tale of three Indian Jewish sects, one of which is very obscure and that is the one she is from. A minority within a minority is nothing to laugh at. It is something many of us can relate too.

To contact the head chef, Brook Stephenson, send an email to bs@natcreole.com