Voice Over Words

Episodes

1. 7

   VI: COVID-19: A patent problem in the global antiviral race?

   During a pandemic, we are learning to rely on each other while being asked to stay indoors. There is a race to find a vaccine which is not something we are sure when will be ready. The Super Powers, Developed Countries, as well as Developing Countries, are eager to have one and get it to their...

   Jul 20, 2020

   8m
2. 6

   V: Book Review: Duncan Hamilton, One Long and Beautiful Summer: A Short Elegy for Red-Ball Cricket

   One of Duncan Hamilton's favourite writers on cricket, Edmund Blunden, wrote how he felt going to watch a game: 'You arrive early, earlier even than you meant . . . and you feel a little guilty at the thought of the day you propose to give up to sheer luxury'. In 2019, Hamilton became convinced...

   Jul 17, 2020

   6m
3. 5

   IV: Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun (and Other Narratives) of the Nigeria-Biafra War

   Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s second novel, Half of a Yellow (published in 2006), is one in a long line of works by Nigerian authors to portray the Nigeria-Biafra War (1967–70). While Adichie has stated that she wanted to make modern Nigeria aware of its history by writing the novel, the writer has...

   Jun 27, 2020

   19m
4. 4

   (Bonus) Prologue to "Half of a Yellow Sun" a Novel By Adichie Review

   In 2019, Chimamanda Adichie gave the inaugural Gabriel García Márquez lecture and spoke about truth and storytelling. “To start a story, a true story, thinking of balance is already to place an obstacle in the path of that story,” she said. “Because what one must focus on is not balance, but...

   Jun 19, 2020

   13m
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   III: Book Review: Daré’s The Girl with the Louding Voice

   While a series of events could be viewed as misfortunes to silence her voice for a while, our protagonist does not lose the desire to achieve what her dreams, all in a society she shall discover are way more unequal than she thought it would be.

   May 10, 2020

   8m
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   II: Book Review: Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

   Released in June 2019 by Penguin Press, the first book of Ocean Vuong may be considered a poetic narrative. It is intimate and universal about the emotions it projects. A letter from a struggling son to understand his fragmented family to his uneducated mother...

   Apr 26, 2020

   12m
7. 1

   I: Simone de Beauvoir: Her Life (All Three Parts)

   Episode 1. Le Deuxieme Sex (The Second Sex) germinated with Jean-Paul Satre. It was changed by the experience of love Nelson Agren and Simone de Beauvoir lived. What we eventually hold is that - One is not born but rather become a woman. Episode 2. When Beauvoir met Nelson Agren, she was in love...

   Apr 19, 2020

   37m