Interview With Published Author, Lawyer, Hawa Allan

In celebration of Women’s History Month, we are proud to revisit our interview with Hawa Allan.

 

We have been bombarded with bad news about our youth and sometimes it seems like all is lost. The information that we are getting sounds like the younger generation is bound for annihilation. With all this madness, which is fractional in our community, I have discovered that our children will be fine. They will take up the mantle that was bestowed upon us and carry on. They will be successful, thereby continuing the legacy of their ancestors.

I can tell you firsthand, being a Baby Boomer, how hard it was to achieve my objectives. But I would not be deterred by the color of my skin. I am still chasing goals. We all should

About Ms. Allan

Hawa Allan is a lawyer and writer of cultural criticism, fiction, and poetry. She is an essay editor at The Offing, and her work has appeared, among other places, in The Baffler, the Chicago Tribune, Lapham's Quarterly and Tricycle magazine, where she is a contributing editor. Her book Insurrection, an interweaving of personal narrative and legal history, was published in January 2022 by W.W. Norton. 

 

Links:

Website: 

http://www.hawaallan.com/

Link to my book at the publisher (including links to online booksellers): 

https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324003038