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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 475
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 08:35 pm: | 
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"Africa Lives on the BBC" http://www.bbc.co.uk/africalives/
Despite unfortunate title (kindova brings to mind a sun-never-sets-on-the-british-empire colonial image to me), web site chocked full of resources. See especially the African Book club: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcafrica/africa05/bookclub1.shtml
1: from West Africa, "Changes" by Ama Ata Aidoo. (Ghana)
Esi, a divorced professional woman in Ghana, falls in love with an attractive married man...
2: from North Africa, "Season of Migration to the North" Tayeb Saleh (Sudan)
A student returns to his village after his obsession with the West had led him to London and the beds of women with similar obsessions about the mysterious East...
3: from East Africa, "Song of Ocol" by Okot p'Bitek (Uganda / Kenya)
Ocol has embraced the new culture. He sees nothing worth preserving in the old ways and has no hesitation in saying so. The future, he asserts is with the West...
4: from South Africa "Collector of Treasures" by Bessie Head
A collection of short stories from one of South Africa's greats...
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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 476
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 08:37 pm: |
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Kola_boof
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Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 297
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - 08:56 pm: |
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I greatly love the genius of Okot p'Bitek.
Ama Ata Aidoo is a good writer, too.
Bessie Head, legendary, although overrated.
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