In keeping with Transition’s activist, pan-Africanist, and progressive roots, we have set up the role of Hortense Spillers Assistant Editor to cultivate and empower bold leaders in the increasingly interrelated world of African and African Diasporic writing. Our aim is to send our assistant editors on to higher-profile venues like The Atlantic and The New Yorker, fully prepared to identify and…
Leah Penniman Wins a Pushcart Prize for “Black Land Matters: Climate Solution in Black Agrarianism”
Leah Penniman’s essay “Black Land Matters: Climate Solutions in Black Agrarianism,” featured in CLIMATE T133, was selected to appear in PUSHCART PRIZE XLVIII, the 2024 Edition, which will be published in December, 2023 and distributed by WW Norton Co. Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm received the added honor of serving as a contributing editor…
TRANSITION Sponsors Roundtable Discussion of Maryse Condé’s SEGU, April 17
In anticipation of her delivery of the inaugural Rajat Neogy Lecture, Transition will be reading Maryse Condé’s iconic novel SEGU which follows generations of the Traore family in the flourishing eighteenth-century kingdom of Segu in Africa. Segu’s people, the Bambara, “are guided by their griots and priests…their lives ruled by the elements. But even their…
Maryse Condé to Give Inaugural Rajat Neogy Memorial Lecture
The week of events begins on Monday, April 17, with a roundtable discussion of Maryse Condé‘s SEGU. Date/Time: April 17th, 2023, 12:00pm Location: Hutchins Center Seminar Room, 104 Mount Auburn Street, Floor 2R, Cambridge, MA In-person & on Zoom. Lunch will be provided. Registration Required – CLICK HERE to register On Wednesday, Maryse Condé will…