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Nafisa_goma
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Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 195
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 11 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 08, 2007 - 10:26 am: | 
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Congratulations, Kola Boof!!
Also congratulations Sudan for placing 2 writers
on the list--both women!
Unfortunately, the photo they used of Kola Boof is "distorted" and "unnatural" looking (in cropping it, someone stretched it and then coated it with a gauze), but the write up is really excellent.
African Writing Magazine UK:
50 Years after Things Fall Apart--
The New Inheritors:
50 African Writers
The Article:
http://www.african-writing.com/profiles.htm
The List of 50 w/Photos:
http://www.african-writing.com/profiles2.htm
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Nafisa_goma
Regular Poster
Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 196
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 08, 2007 - 10:33 am: |
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Leila Aboulela, also Sudan
You will love her novels "The Transistor" and "Minaret"!
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Nafisa_goma
Regular Poster
Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 197
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 08, 2007 - 10:43 am: |
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Correction
A 3rd Sudanese made the list!
Jamal Mahjoub-Sudan
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Kola_boof
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Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 4550
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 5 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 08, 2007 - 02:31 pm: |
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Nafisa Goma thank you for posting this
and thanks for acknowledging my hard
work and all I've overcome.
Of course receiving your email about
it this morning was pure bliss. 
I certainly intend to fry much bigger fish
as time marches on, and the HATRED that
I receive from so many on this board is
just the fuel and KARMA that will bring
me to the top.
I'm proud to be an African and a writer,
and especially proud that a "black" writer
can finally represent Sudan for the first
time.
P.S., I liked how they laquered the photo.
It stands out.
They did mess up one eye, though. LOL
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Emanuel
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Username: Emanuel
Post Number: 318
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 08, 2007 - 03:35 pm: |
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Congratulations Kola. I'm surprised I didn't see Mende Nazar (Slave: My True Story) on the list. I reviewed the book a few years ago and thought it was excellent. Portions of "Diary of a Lost Girl" even reminded me of it. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 9201
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 7 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 08, 2007 - 03:37 pm: |
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You like to think that people on this board hate you because that idea helps embellish the role you have taken on as a crusader against "eeeeeeevil". As one of your chief detractors, kofisa goof, rest assured that I don't hate you. I love you for blindly making yourself such a good and frequent target for ridicule in your vainglorious quest to achieve adoration. 1969? I'm still giggling at that birth date. 1969 was probably the year that time-worn picture was taken. Thanks for the laugh, gurlfriend. Love ya! ROTFLOL. |
Kola_boof
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Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 4560
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 08, 2007 - 04:09 pm: |
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Emanuel, thank you so much.
I always appreciate your kindness.
I was shocked that Titsi Dangembara was not
on the list!
That's an unforgivable over-sight as she
is a very gifted up and comer and is already
a major star.
She lives in Berlin, so I'm stumped.
From reading the "Article" portion of the text, I do believe that Chinweizu and Achebe's positive comments about my work in the past had something to do with me being put on the list--because usually-- Africans don't embrace "females" who cause controversy, especially if they've criticized men.
I am also very popular in Nigeria, and this magazine is run primarily by Nigerians and that community in London (I once lived in Brixton, if you recall, with a Nigerian writer from Biafra--the one who beat me up really bad). So perhaps that and the fact that my name is Kola (the kolanut being sacred to Nigerians) is why I made the list and not Tsitsi. Well along with the fact that I've written quite an impressive catalog--there's no denying. Then again, they could have bumped someone else and had both me and Tsitisi.
Emanuel, again, thanks King.
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Schakspir
Veteran Poster
Username: Schakspir
Post Number: 1104
Registered: 12-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 08, 2007 - 08:44 pm: |
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Jamal Mahjoub is without doubt one of the most cosmopolitan and multifaceted figures on the contemporary Sudanese literary scene. Born in 1960 of an English mother and a Sudanese father, Mahjoub lived both in the Sudan and in England before moving to Denmark, where he now resides. His prolific and critically acclaimed literary production has yielded him enough recognition to place him firmly in the footsteps of such pioneers of Sudanese literature as Tayeb Salih, whose writings put Sudan on the map of twentieth-century literature..... |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 700
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 08, 2007 - 10:26 pm: |
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Nafisa_goma this is a "good look" for Kola.
Congrats Kola. I'll mention this in my next newsletter.
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Kola_boof
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Username: Kola_boof
Post Number: 4598
Registered: 02-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 09, 2007 - 08:10 pm: |
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Thank you Troy!!!! |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2139
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 11:03 am: |
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Congrats, Kola! |
Nafisa_goma
Regular Poster
Username: Nafisa_goma
Post Number: 199
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 02:26 pm: |
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In honor of African-Americans, I just had to post this comment from a speech last night in London by Ama Ata Aidoo, the Queen of Ghanian literature:
"Twenty years ago, there were roughly 30 to
40 African writers being published at a time
each year...but now thanks to the African Americans and the Black British, there are
500 African writers published each year, almost
entirely in the West...not to begrudge Russia's
African writers program that publishes 20 to
30 Russian Africans each year, but our offspring
in the west have brought us bounty. To make a Top 50 list would not be possible without the African Americans and the Black British."
Very touching.
As an Arab-Yemenese woman, I would like to add
that because of African-Americans, all people of color are able to be published and be heard through literature. There would be no Spanish/Latino, no Indian or Arab book markets if not for the victories that African-American people won against racism and bigotry in the United States.
In the case of Kola, had she not been rescued through adoption and raised by an African-American family, she would not be able to leave her mark on world literature. I think these facts are very important for all people of color to remember in that we owe a great debt to the achievements of African-American people.
I am proud to have been chosen for marriage by an African American man and to have children by him as well.
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