The African Studies Program invites UW-Madison students to submit a review of Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, the Go Big Read selection for the 2021/2022 academic year. Accepted submissions will be published on brittlepaper.com, a major platform on African literature.
Transcendent Kingdom is the story of a Ghanaian-American neuroscience graduate student at Stanford University and how her brother’s struggle with addiction leads her to explore the traumas that shaped her family’s tragic experience in the US. The entire UW-Madison community is coming together to read the book this year because it is a deeply moving story and for what it tells us about religion and science, race and immigration. We would love to hear your thoughts on the book.
What to Do: Write down your reaction to Transcendent Kingdom in a 400-to-700-word review.
Deadline: September 30
Click here to submit.
Free Copy
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The African Studies Program supports research, teaching, and outreach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, bringing together scholars in multiple disciplines, students, teachers, and community partners to consider all aspects of land and life in Africa. The African Studies Program is a U. S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center for Africa, a unit in The International Division, and a member of the campus consortium of internationally oriented programs known as the Institute for Regional and International Studies.
Brittle Paper is an online literary magazine for readers of African Literature. They feature news about books and daily happenings in the African literary scene. They publish fiction, poetry, book reviews, and essays, and bring African literature to captive audiences in digital spaces. For the past 10 years, they have cultivated a fun and informative platform for readers who love literature from Africa.