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Under the Udala Trees – Review

• August 10, 2016 • Leave a Comment

Posted in african literature, african women, books
Tags: african literature, African Reading Challenge, book reviews, chinelo okparanta, nigerian literature, under the udala trees

The Resurrecting Writers Series: Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol (Repost)

• December 2, 2015 • Leave a Comment

Posted in african literature, book reviews, books, literature, poetry, writers
Tags: african literature, okot p'Bitek, poetry, song of lawino & song of ocol

Kwame Ture on the Origin of Steel Bands

• January 20, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Posted in african history, books, caribbean, Music
Tags: african literature, Kwame Ture, Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Steelpan, Stokely Carmichael, Trinidad, writing

Decolonizing the Mind – Ngugi wa Thiong’o

• May 4, 2012 • 3 Comments

Posted in books, literature, writing
Tags: african languages, african literature, decolonizing the mind, gikuyu, Languages of Africa, ngugi wa thiong'o, politics of language

Africa Reading Challenge

• January 19, 2012 • Leave a Comment

Posted in african literature, books, literature, reading
Tags: africa reading challenge, african literature, ayi kwei armah, flora nwapa, funmilayo ransome-kuti, kinna reads, wives of the leopard, wole soyinka

Land without Thunder: a short short reflection

• April 19, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Posted in african literature, books, writing
Tags: african literature, authors, grace ogot, kenyan writers, land without thunder, missionaries, postaweek2011

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