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‘A worthy addition to the Zimbabwean library of the struggle-engaged’—Percy Zvomuya reviews An Outsider Within by Mary E Ndlovu

June 11, 2024June 11, 2024Percy ZvomuyaLeave a Comment on ‘A worthy addition to the Zimbabwean library of the struggle-engaged’—Percy Zvomuya reviews An Outsider Within by Mary E Ndlovu

Percy Zvomuya reviews Mary E Ndlovu’s memoir, An Outsider Within: A Memoir of Love, of Loss, of Perseverance. An Outsider…

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Wole Soyinka vs Caroline Davis—The CIA Controversy by Adekeye Adebajo

May 2, 2022May 2, 2022Adekeye Adebajo2 Comments on Wole Soyinka vs Caroline Davis—The CIA Controversy by Adekeye Adebajo

In 2020, Caroline Davis, a British scholar, now based at England’s University College London, published the book African Literature and…

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‘Speaking Shona was associated with humiliation’: Petina Gappah on the influence, on her writing, of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Decolonising the Mind

November 6, 2017April 22, 2020Petina Gappah1 Comment on ‘Speaking Shona was associated with humiliation’: Petina Gappah on the influence, on her writing, of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Decolonising the Mind

Exclusive to The JRB, a new essay by Petina Gappah on the influence of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s work on her…

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