NOTE: These essays, poems, and stories were written before, during, and after three trips to Africa. The trips took place during 2010-11, in the course of writing Uhuru Revisited. The “essays” include analytical essays, reviews, and travel pieces.
ESSAYS (RECENT):
“Nzuri na Mengi (Good and Plenty): The Caine Prize for African Writing, 2007-16,” Transnational Literature, Nov. 2017.
“Nigeria, the Money Country,” Evergreen Review, No. 130, Spring 2012:
http://www.evergreenreview.com/b/nigeria-the-money-country-ron-singer/
“Matatu Mzungu (White Man on a Bus),” New Maps, Summer, 2012:
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/4754/matatu-mzungu-(white-man-on-a-mini-bus)–p.1-(of-2).html
“I’ll Teach You to Build the School,” Front Porch Review, April, 2012:
http://frontporchrvw.com/issue/april-2012/article/ill-teach-you-to-build-the-school
“Loopholes in the 4-Step Ghanaian Budgetary Process,” Pambazuka News, 2012-03-22, Issue 578:
http://pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/80971
“The African Regent Hotel: Culture and Corruption in West Africa,” opendemocracy. net: March 25, 2012:
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ron-singer/african-regent-hotel-culture-and-corruption-in-ghana-and-nigeria
ESSAYS (NOTABLE):
Essay-Review: “O Ti Lo Wa Ju (You Have Gone Past All): The Caine Prize for African Writing.” The Georgia Review, Summer 2007:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/i40068204
Interview: Chris Abani, “Direct Quotes,” Poets & Writers, online, June 1, 2006:
www.pw.org
Interview: Wole Soyinka, opendemocracy.net, August 25, 2006:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-africa_democracy/soyinka_3854.jsp
Review: A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope for Africa, by Howard W. French, American Book Review, 2005:
americanbookreview.org/issuecontent.asp?id=15
Op-Ed: “The ‘Obnoxious’ Threat to Nigeria and Its Oil,” Wall Street Journal, April 15, 2003:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB105036690478309700
POEMS (SELECTED):
“Broccoli Rabe, Broccoli Rasta,” Grey Sparrow, 2012; River Poets Journal (postcard poems), 2014; Poetry Atlas, 2015:
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/4750/broccoli-rabe,-broccoli-rasta.html
“New York–Johannesburg Phone Conversation,” Red Ochre Lit, 2012; Two Cities Review, 2015:
http://twocitiesreview.com/2015/12/featured-new-york-johannesburg-phone-conversation/
“On the Road from South Africa to Botswana,” Third Wednesday, Spring 2012:
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/4760/on-the-road-from-south-africa-to-botswana.html
STORIES:
“In Ethiopia, Once,” New Maps; Transnational Literature:
https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-3691915761/in-ethiopia-once
“Their Countries of Origin,” Transnational Literature, 2014:
https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-3510947761/their-countries-of-origin
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