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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.


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    • 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…


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    • 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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