Category Archives: History
A love story, inside a lecture on race, wrapped in an exploration of cultural differences between the USA and Nigeria
Last year I read Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimananda Ngozi Adiche. It was well-written and engaging, and informative about a part of the world I knew little of: Nigeria and the Nigerian Civil War. More recently I viewed … Continue reading
“North Dakota is still the least visited state in the nation”
The quote is from an article in The Writer’s Almanac, published daily on the Internet by americanpublicmedia.org. My immediate reaction was to visit North Dakota but I quickly, and practically, let that impulse fade. This created a disappointment in me … Continue reading
The Pavellas Perspective 