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    • English 110 Draft:  A Story about a Humanitarian Gone too Soon!

      English 110 Draft:  A Story about a Humanitarian Gone too Soon!

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      For Victor Pungong, April 11th 1967- May 9th 2007 By Joyce Ashuntantang What you have heard is true. She stepped into my office cradling her folder in her bosom. Her pink boots oppressed the blue carpet on my office floor. My gaze caught her eyes off guard. “Yes Miss Sanchez, what can I do for you?”  “Professor,

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    • Dr. Joyce Ashuntantang’s Birthday Celebration Part 2

      Dr. Joyce Ashuntantang’s Birthday Celebration Part 2

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      “Highlights of Part2 of Dr Joyce Ashuntantang’s Golden Birthday Celebration in New-York City. The First Part of the celebration was a sightseeing lunch cruise on the Bateaux, New York.”

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    • IN HIS SONGS, I FOUND MANY ACES I COULD KEEP!

      IN HIS SONGS, I FOUND MANY ACES I COULD KEEP!

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      It will always be easy to remember when Kenny Rogers died. He died at 81 during the nightmarish days of the corona virus and the nightmarish war that continues to desecrate the place I call “home.” In announcing his death his publicist claimed, “His songs have endeared music lovers and touched the lives of millions

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    • UHart Professor Speaks on Importance of Black History Month

      Joyce Ashuntantang, an associate professor of English in the University of Hartford’s Hillyer College, talked to FoxCT about the importance of Black History Month.

    • Hartford Loves Poetry Finale

      Ashuntantang is hoping that her work will help preserve disappearing Manyu crafts like the asoreh—and she also wants to use her poetry to help preserve Kenyang, one of the disappearing ethnic languages of Cameroon. While the official languages of Cameroon are English and French, the country has more than 200 ethnic languages, many of which…

    • Achebe’s insights on the African Diaspora and Baldwin’s comments at the 1980 ALA

      An Excerpt of more than an hour long interview with Chinua Achebe by Joyce Ashuntantang, Okey Ndibe, Sowore Omoyele and Oyiza Daba. Prompted by a question from Okey Ndibe, the Master Storyteller tells the story of the ALA conference of 1980 where he and James Baldwin where the keynote speakers. He uses Baldwin’s comments on…

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