In early April, the Associated Press reported that USAID—the United States Agency for International Development, whose website advertises its lofty goal “to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential”—had concocted a hare-brained scheme to create a stealth Cuban version of Twitter using “a byzantine system of front companies” in Spain and the Cayman…
Stephen Kimber
Stephen Kimber is a professor of journalism at the University of King’s College and co-founder of its Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program. His latest book, What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five, was published in 2013 by Fernwood.
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In the 40 years since Halifax city fathers wiped it off the face of the earth, Africville—a tiny black community of 400 people that had snuggled and struggled to survive along the harbour’s edge for 150 years—has become a more iconic symbol than actual physical space.
For its former residents, the very mention of its name evokes an…
It hit me like the text’s “sack of hammers.” Somewhere around page 389 of Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes, I realized I had become so completely engrossed in his masterful telling of the hard life and crueller times of Amanita Diallo that I had forgotten I was reading a novel. But I…