Interview with Jeffrey Colvin, Author of AFRICAVILLE
In Jeffrey Colvin's debut novel, AFRICAVILLE, he writes about the fluidity of racial identity and racism through the story of three generations of a black family, the Seabolts, that originates in Halifax, Canada from 1936 - 1992. The first main character, Kath Ella, is a 16 year-old ambitious teenager in 1936 who wants to be a teacher, and achieves her dream in Montreal. Her son, Etienne, is ambivalent about maintaining his black identity, and moves to Rhode Island for college,and later to Montgomery, Alabama in the 1960s, but never moving back to Canada. After Etienne's death, his son…
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