It has been a busy year, thanks to getting back to my favorite action of travel. In April 2022, I was in
Togo for giving a paper on African Literature and Environment, in the country’s first
literature symposium, hosted by the University of Lomé, and organized by the Togolese
Writers Union.
In June, I was invited to
Alexandra Ochirova presents her book (My Horizons) as if she were making a philosophical poetic statement with logic.
This edition in Russian, English, and Arabic, which I had the amusement to translate, is part of the Silk Road Literature Series, a path perfectly represented by Alexandra Ochirova 's biography; she is a UNESCO Goodwill
The Kazakh writer and translator, Bakhit Rustamov, combines being a
writer outside the local borders and a practitioner of popular diplomacy
- acting an important role in friendship between the peoples of the
world. I met him personally for the first time in Turkey at the Eurasian
International Literary Festival (LIFFT), 2021.
Football doesn’t only give its lessons from playing on the yard, because the sport sociology reveals other lessons, not less important, in playing outside the green rectangle.
For the most important sporting event, in parallel with the Olympic Games, by which I mean the World Cup, it seems more media sensational. It is an event that
REFLECTIONS ON UMAR ABUBAKAR SIDI’S LIKE BUTTERFLIES SCATTERED ABOUT BY ART RASCALS
Umar Abubakar Sidi's poetry is one of the most talked about today in the Nigerian literary space, because of its unconventionality and departure from the new body of narratives dominated by water, body, and confessional motifs. Sidi’s poetry
