as a western perception that the african female is a downtrodden wretch . but when you look around the african continent today girls abducted in nigeria, polygamy re introduced in kenya, child marriages and the prevalence of gender based violence how much is there to celebrate about being female in africa? ama ata aidoo, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, zainab. there s a lot of political issues and social affairs in your writings. how much do you see yourself as a writer with a mission? well, now, in retrospect, i suppose i could describe myself as a writer with a mission. but i never was aware that i had a mission when i started to write, you see. it didn t work it doesn t work like that. i maen, i don t sit at my desk and say, now i ve got to depict this, and depict that. no. first of all, i was rather young when i started writing, so i didn t even have any notion of where my would be read, or how, and stuff like that. so it wasn t a conscious decision, but
up in blue and yellow, of course the colors of the ukrainian flag, so was the empire state building in new york city. and we ve got a lot to cover in our second hour of chris jansing reports. let s get right to it. at this hour, turbulence on wall street. why stocks are tumbling right now, and what it means for your wallet. plus, the u.s. moving to seize $75 million worth of luxury real estate in miami beach, the hamptons, and new york city. the owner, a russian oligarch. we ve got the new details on that. also what happened in the first court hearing connected to the deadly shooting on the rust movie set. and court action set to resume shortly. our nbc news reporters are here with all the latest developments, and we begin in south carolina where alec murdaugh is due back on the stand any minute now. nbc s catie beck is outside the courthouse. we were watching together that withering cross-examination from the prosecution today, accusing murdaugh of manufacturing
My guest today has been called americas greatest living crime writer. In his la quartet and many other novels, james ellroy has painted a uniquely dark portrait of this city of angels, a nightmare world of psychotic killers, corrupt cops and depraved appetites. Ellroy writes of what he knows, his own mother was murdered when he was a child. And is that simple, terrible fact the key to understanding all the words hes ever written . James ellroy, welcome to hardtalk. Hey, boss, whats shaking . We are going to talk about 35 years of Novel Writing and of your books has been set in and around los angeles. Absolutely untrue right off the bat, bam. Ive wrote three novels, the underworld usa trilogy, the american tabloid, which was time magazines novel of the year year in 1995. The cold six thousand and bloods a rover are set outside la. Right, but Southern California is your world. Im from there and its where i go when women divorce me. I suppose what im getting at is whether youve ever been
My guest today has been called americas greatest living crime writer. In his la quartet and many other novels, james ellroy has painted a uniquely dark portrait of this city of angels, a nightmare world of psychotic killers, corrupt cops and depraved appetites. Ellroy writes of what he knows, his own mother was murdered when he was a child. And is that simple, terrible fact the key to understanding all the words hes ever written . James ellroy, welcome to hardtalk. Hey, boss, whats shaking . We are going to talk about 35 years of Novel Writing and of your books has been set in and around los angeles. Absolutely untrue right off the bat, bam. Ive wrote three novels, the underworld usa trilogy, the american tabloid, which was time magazines novel of the year year in 1995. The cold six thousand and bloods a rover are set outside la. Right, but Southern California is your world. Im from there and its where i go when women divorce me. I suppose what im getting at is whether youve ever been
My guest today has been called americas greatest living crime writer. In his la quartet and many other novels, james ellroy has painted a uniquely dark portrait of this city of angels, a nightmare world of psychotic killers, corrupt cops and depraved appetites. Ellroy writes of what he knows, his own mother was murdered when he was a child. And is that simple, terrible fact the key to understanding all the words hes ever written . James ellroy, welcome to hardtalk. Hey, boss, whats shaking . We are going to talk about 35 years of Novel Writing and of your books has been set in and around los angeles. Absolutely untrue right off the bat, bam. Ive wrote three novels, the underworld usa trilogy, the american tabloid, which was time magazines novel of the year year in 1995. The cold six thousand and bloods a rover are set outside la. Right, but Southern California is your world. Im from there and its where i go when women divorce me. I suppose what im getting at is whether youve ever been