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“Just Fade to White, Dear.” Aminatta Forna Remembers Fay Weldon

“Just Fade to White, Dear.” Aminatta Forna Remembers Fay Weldon

“She didn’t give a hoot what anyone thought.”

By Aminatta Forna | January 10, 2023

Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah

Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah

Remarks From the PEN World Voices Festival opening night

By Aminatta Forna | May 17, 2022

Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac

Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac

Aminatta Forna Moves Through a Cultural and Personal History of Sleeplessness

By Aminatta Forna | June 9, 2021

A response: Aminatta Forna on why she signed the letter condemning the online abuse of JK Rowling.

A response: Aminatta Forna on why she signed the letter condemning the online abuse of JK Rowling.

By Aminatta Forna | October 2, 2020

Aminatta Forna Diverges From the Homeschool Lesson Plan with Chinua Achebe

Aminatta Forna Diverges From the Homeschool Lesson Plan with Chinua Achebe

What You Teach When Things Start to Fall Apart

By Aminatta Forna | March 26, 2020

Power Walking

Power Walking

Aminatta Forna on the Streets of London, Freetown, and NYC

By Aminatta Forna | September 19, 2018

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The Truth About Fiction vs. Nonfiction

By Aminatta Forna | June 7, 2018

Wilder Things: Modern Life Among the Foxes and Coyotes

By Aminatta Forna | March 6, 2018

What If You Gave an Inauguration and Nobody Came?

By Aminatta Forna | January 19, 2018

The First Time I Saw Ice Was in the Jungle

The First Time I Saw Ice Was in the Jungle

Aminatta Forna on an Early Encounter with an Ice-Skating Bear

By Aminatta Forna | November 14, 2017

The Many Ways in Which the Heart Can Break

The Many Ways in Which the Heart Can Break

Aminatta Forna Visits the Museum of Broken Relationships

By Aminatta Forna | November 8, 2016

The Modern and the Medieval Collide: Aminatta Forna on Ebola

The Modern and the Medieval Collide: Aminatta Forna on Ebola

“This is not a problem of Africa’s making.”

By Aminatta Forna | April 22, 2016

Where Are the West's Political Novelists?

Where Are the West's Political Novelists?

Aminatta Forna On the False Binary of Art and Politics

By Aminatta Forna | May 6, 2015