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Author: Percy Zvomuya

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Africa

James Baldwin in Rhodesia: Percy Zvomuya picks out a thread from the forgotten war book Black Fire!

September 4, 2017September 4, 2017Percy Zvomuya6 Comments on James Baldwin in Rhodesia: Percy Zvomuya picks out a thread from the forgotten war book Black Fire!

In the late nineteen-seventies, James Baldwin encountered an ‘extraordinary and illuminating’ Rhodesian book, which influenced his thought around black rage…

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Africa

We are not dogs! We must get organised: Percy Zvomuya reviews The Beggars’ Strike by Aminata Sow Fall

June 5, 2017August 20, 2019Percy ZvomuyaLeave a Comment on We are not dogs! We must get organised: Percy Zvomuya reviews The Beggars’ Strike by Aminata Sow Fall

Percy Zvomuya reviews The Beggars’ Strike, by Senegalese author Aminata Sow Fall, first published in English in 1981. The Beggars’…

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The limits of counterfactual fiction: Percy Zvomuya reviews Bertène Juminer’s Bozambo’s Revenge and Michel Houellebecq’s Submission

May 1, 2017July 26, 2018Percy Zvomuya1 Comment on The limits of counterfactual fiction: Percy Zvomuya reviews Bertène Juminer’s Bozambo’s Revenge and Michel Houellebecq’s Submission

La Revanche de Bozambo / Bozambo’s Revenge Bertène Juminer Présence Africaine, 1968 (French ed.)/Three Continents Press, 1968 (English ed.) Submission…

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