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Black Canon

Nov 14, 2020

Assia Djebbar was born June 30, 1936  Fatima Zohra Imalayene in Algeria. She is a writer and filmmaker who was nominated several times to receive the Nobel Prize of Literature. Her work center around the condition of women in the Arabic World.


Nov 7, 2020

Grand corps malade and Abdal malik are French poets, essayists, performers who for years have been central in the fight for equality in France. 


Oct 24, 2020

Calixthe Beyala is a Cameroonian and French writer , born in 1961 in Cameroon in the shawnty town of New Bell. She is the author of The Sun Hath Looked Upon Me, her debut novel published in 1988 when she was in her tweenties.


Sep 28, 2020

Both are Putlizer Prize winner, her in 1988 for he outstanding novel Beloved and him, in 2017 , first rapper to do so for his 4th album Damn. In this episode, we going to attempt to find some similarities between these two artists whose work, about the black experience in this country, has moved so many of us.


Aug 15, 2020

Born December 1, 1944 in Fes Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun is a poet, novelist, essayist and journalist. His novel Sacred Night published in 1987 won the Prix Goncourt.