Picture a globe glowing with places of particular misery, pain or evil: Auschwitz, Nanking, Hiroshima, Wounded Knee. Burning white hot would be a singular landmark in west Africa: Cape Coast Castle, a ...

“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake,” wrote James Joyce in Ulysses. Yaa Gyasi, a writer with a rich talent for visceral story-telling, is part of the wake-up crew. Ancestral curses ...

It is 1763, in the country we now know as Ghana. James Collins, a white English soldier and governor of the Cape Coast Castle, is showing his bride, a Fante woman named Effia, around her new home.

There is something very exciting about reading a debut novel and realising within a few chapters that the author is experimenting with time and structure in such an original way that the work of an ...

The Massillon Museum has a long history of creating art exhibits tied to literature as part of an annual community reading program. “Homegoing,” a novel by Yaa Gyasi about two sisters from Africa ...

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As Black History Month comes to a close, there is still so much to learn and understand about the depth of ingrained inequalities in contemporary society. Yaa Gyasi’s 2016 debut novel, “Homegoing,” ...