Share this:
For Cameroon-born author, Imolo Imbue, the pieces are all finally coming together. With her much anticipated and seriously delayed second novel, ‘How Beautiful We Were,’ she explores the themes of environmental destruction in a fictional African village called Kosawa. The residents fight back against a foreign oil company whose work is poisoning their land, air, rivers and children, was delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Previously scheduled to come out last June, it was one of many 2020 books whose publication dates shifted. Random House is now releasing it on March 9.
SOURCE: THE NEW YORK TIMES
More Articles
Dutch Family Retraces their Roots Back to Ghana
The First African Airline to Trial IATA Travel Pass
Enjoy a Bird’s Eye View of the Masai Mara With this Pioneer Woman
Google South Africa & SA Tourism Partner, Launch ‘South Africa: An Explorer’s Paradise’
A View from the Highest Point in Cairo
These Chefs Infuse the Hudson Valley with West African Flavor
Africa-Born ‘Fab Five’ Designers Open Milan Fashion Week
Beyond ‘Black Panther’: Afrofuturism is Booming in Comics
To Help Preserve His Island Paradise, This Musician in Mauritius is Turning Trash into Instruments