Open in app
Home
Notifications
Lists
Stories

Write
Teju Cole
Teju Cole

Home

Published in LEVEL

·Apr 2, 2020

City of Pain

In a powerful fable for our times, a traveler arrives in a strange city during a crisis — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. And after one of those journeys that involved the drawing of an imaginary line across the Earth, a flight that brought her to the gleaming nowhere of an airport in the…

Fiction

16 min read

City of Pain
City of Pain

Published in LEVEL

·Mar 6, 2018

On the Blackness of the Panther

‘In my wildest dreams, there is no king. I killed the king. The king is dead. All power to the people.’ — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. I began to become African a little over twenty-five years ago. That was when I left Nigeria and moved to the US. I had been born in the US in the…

Marvel

17 min read

On the Blackness of the Panther
On the Blackness of the Panther
Teju Cole

Teju Cole

Novelist, essayist, photographer. www.tejucole.com

Following
  • Alexander Chee

    Alexander Chee

  • The New Yorker

    The New Yorker

  • Kima Jones

    Kima Jones

  • Danielle Evans

    Danielle Evans

Help

Status

Writers

Blog

Careers

Privacy

Terms

About

Knowable