Blockbuster: Liberian-born Author Vamba Sherif discusses LAND OF MY FATHERS & history behind book http://www.duniamagazine.com/2016/10/blockbuster-liberian-born-author-vamba-sherif-discusses-land-of-my-fathers

Land of My Fathers is a novel pulsating with African spiritualism rooted in a belief in the power of ancestral spirits to intervene in the lives of the living that radiates with the narrative hues of Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’: former slaves trying to exert their humanity unshackled by the oppression of slavery and the mysteriousRead more about Review: The Liberian Echo[…]

Against a background of French and British colonialists carving up Mother Africa, while local tribes were still unashamedly trading in slaves, Vamba Sherif transports readers into the world of those vulnerable newcomers in Land of my Fathers. http://www.bigissuenorth.com/2016/11/author-qa-vamba-sherif/22032

My mother distributed what was left of her things among the market women who had fought her, and my father gave his fishing gear to a neighbour. The old lady returned to her house. ‘I am not leaving,’ she said. ‘I’ve seen enough of this world. I will be right here when they come. IfRead more about Land of my fathers – An Excerpt[…]