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At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop: Review no 151
Disturbing and powerful International Man Booker-shortlisted novel
Review no 143: The Hairdresser of Harare by Tendai Huchu (Zimbabwe)
A modern day social comedy set in Zimbabwe that manages to tackle some serious issues
Review no 80: Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun (Sudan)
this collection of short stories is a quick and sometimes powerful read
Review no 70: We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo (Zimbabwe)
AFRICA We read We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo for my book club a while ago. My friend Emily likes to seek out books by African authors, so I suspect this was her choice (we all put suggestions into a little bag, anonymously, and then someone pulls out two!). Published in 2013, this is …
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Review no 36: Mariama Bâ (1929-81), Une Si Longue Lettre/So Long a Letter (Senegal)
Translated from the French by Modupé Bodé-Thomas AFRICA So Long a Letter is an epistolary novel (rare in African literature) and seminal African feminist work that laments injustices in the female experience in Senegal. The book was published in French in 1979, and first appeared in English in 1981. It has been judged to be …
Review no 26: Tété-Michel Kpomassie, An African in Greenland (Togo)
“Unbelievable!” he exclaimed. “How can a man fall off a sled? It’s not possible, yet you, you managed to do it. I saw you rolling down like a seal’s bladder, and I couldn’t believe my eyes!”
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