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Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna
Aminatta Forna is the author of a memoir, The Devil That Danced on the Water, and four novels. Her newest novel, Happiness, is out now from Grove Atlantic.


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

October 2, 2020  By Aminatta Forna
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Aminatta Forna Diverges From the Homeschool Lesson Plan with Chinua Achebe

What You Teach When Things Start to Fall Apart
March 26, 2020  By Aminatta Forna
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Power Walking

Aminatta Forna on the Streets of London, Freetown, and NYC
September 19, 2018  By Aminatta Forna
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The Truth About Fiction vs. Nonfiction

Aminatta Forna, from Reporter to Novelist, and Everything in Between
June 7, 2018  By Aminatta Forna
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Wilder Things: Modern Life Among the Foxes and Coyotes

From London to Arlington, Investigating the Urban Wilderness
March 6, 2018  By Aminatta Forna
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What If You Gave an Inauguration and Nobody Came?

One Year On, Aminatta Forna Remembers the Empty Streets of Washington
January 19, 2018  By Aminatta Forna
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The First Time I Saw Ice Was in the Jungle

Aminatta Forna on an Early Encounter with an Ice-Skating Bear
November 14, 2017  By Aminatta Forna
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The Many Ways in Which the Heart Can Break

Aminatta Forna Visits the Museum of Broken Relationships
November 8, 2016  By Aminatta Forna
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The Modern and the Medieval Collide: Aminatta Forna on Ebola

“This is not a problem of Africa’s making.”
April 22, 2016  By Aminatta Forna
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Where Are the West’s Political Novelists?

Aminatta Forna On the False Binary of Art and Politics
May 6, 2015  By Aminatta Forna
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