African authors offer rich narratives that have played a key role in shaping my thought process around relocating to a new country. From the complexities of growing up to confronting life-altering realities to the feeling of displacement that immigrants face – these stories will resonate with Canadian immigrants. Here is an introduction to three authors who tell stories of universal truths to the African diaspora.
View More Three Books by African Authors that Helped Me Feel at Home in Canada
NCM Collective members share some of their holiday reading selections for 2019
View More Our Holiday Reading Selections — A Celebration
Books help us appreciate cultures, open hearts and minds, and promote tolerance and understanding
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Fifteen years later, Suketu Mehta has published another path breaking book. ‘This is Our Land – An immigrant’s manifesto’
View More A Conversation with Award-Winning Author Suketu Mehta
When Britain was toiling against its Egyptian possessions Blunt was sent there to gauge public opinion
View More The Globalization of Freedom Fights
A new form of global class structure has evolved in which white parents in the developed world hire nannies from Cameroon or the Philippines to leave their own children and come look after white ones in the west
View More Is This Our Land? Review of ‘An Immigrant’s Manifesto’
If life began in a primordial ocean with organisms evolving from elemental atoms which, instructed by a self-creating universe of natural laws, suddenly flashed into…
View More New Book Offers Insights on Life, God and the Universe
Although the Canadian government officially apologised for the Chinese Head Tax, we’ve not yet connected all the dots
View More Finding Mr. Wong: A Tale from Canada’s Exclusion Era
A piece of Canadian history brought two award-winning writers together at the Author’s Book Fair during Asian Heritage Month. In 1885, Federal Parliament passed the Chinese…
View More Historic Head Tax Unites Canadians at Book Fair
While the material is complex, and the intricacies appear almost infinite, the authors have made every attempt to write in as accessible language as possible
View More Immigration Law Handbook Presents Worthy Tool, but at Times Misses Mark