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Africa

A flawed take on immigration and the rise of the right: Lebohang Mojapelo reviews Sasha Polakow-Suransky’s Go Back to Where You Came From

February 5, 2018Lebohang MojapeloLeave a Comment on A flawed take on immigration and the rise of the right: Lebohang Mojapelo reviews Sasha Polakow-Suransky’s Go Back to Where You Came From

Fear of a black planet, rather than ‘economic anxiety’, gnaws at the West’s hallowed liberal democratic principles, writes Lebohang Mojapelo….

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Essays

Fear and loathing in Bordeaux: Race and the French myth in Marie NDiaye’s My Heart Hemmed In

November 6, 2017November 6, 2017Efemia ChelaLeave a Comment on Fear and loathing in Bordeaux: Race and the French myth in Marie NDiaye’s My Heart Hemmed In

Efemia Chela reviews Marie NDiaye’s newly translated masterpiece My Heart Hemmed In, a mixture of literary fiction, psychological thriller and…

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Africa

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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