Colonialism hasn’t gone anywhere; it has only changed its stripes. The tentacles of the Western quest for domination are still finding new ways to dig into the earth and pillage for profit. Few have ...

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In the home where Imbolo Mbue grew up, in Limbe, a coastal town in Cameroon, there was no television. The radio brought the news, and it was from the radio that Mbue followed the case of Ken Saro-Wiwa ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Our guest Imbolo Mbue is the author of the new novel "How Beautiful We Were." It was described in The New York Times as a nuanced exploration of self-interest, of ...

"How Beautiful We Were" is a novel that opens in an African village in 1980 called Kosawa that is fictional, but not by much. A U.S. oil company operating in the area has poisoned much of the air, ...

When author Imbolo Mbue was a girl growing up in the West African country of Cameroon, she was taken by the people she saw who revolted against injustice to fight seemingly impossible battles. “I’ve ...

The winner of the PEN/Faulkner Prize for her first novel, "Behold the Dreamers," Imbolo Mbue returns with a story of the struggles of African villagers against an American oil company. We should have ...

Her novel, “How Beautiful We Were,” is a story about how people respond to environmental destruction. It was delayed by the pandemic and before that by the success of her previous book, “Behold the ...

In Kosawa, the fictional African village at the heart of Imbolo Mbue’s epic new novel, “How Beautiful We Were,” the children die because the land and water have been poisoned by an American oil ...

Imagine Lorraine Hansberry’s play/film “A Raisin in the Sun” with a Cameroonian cast of characters in early 21st century New York City, and you may come up with something close to “Behold the Dreamers ...

In 2009, the financial crisis was supposedly over, but it didn’t feel that way to Imbolo Mbue. She lost her job working at a magazine in New York and began considering the effects the recession had on ...