Maryse Condé: A Profile of a Pioneering Writer and Scholar

Maryse Condé: A Profile of a Pioneering Writer and Scholar

Maryse Condé was writing stories before she was 12. Yet she did not make her debut until she was 37. But then she had lived through the first years of independence in West Africa, had four children and earned a doctorate from the Sorbonne Nouvelle. Born into a black bourgeois family in Guadeloupe, and having … Read more

The Founding of Germantown: How 13 German Families Shaped America

The Founding of Germantown: How 13 German Families Shaped America

History Founding of Germantown 13 families from Krefeld made the start – How Germans shaped America Every year, Americans celebrate the founding day of the first German settlement in the New World with “German American Day” on October 6th. In doing so, they honor the German contribution to US culture, which was diverse and can … Read more