AFRICAN LITERARY PROFILES
Monday, 4 April 2022
SINDIWE MAGONA
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What a remarkably creative writer Sindiwe Magona is! Recently (2021) at the age of 78, she published a new novel, When the Village Sleeps...
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Wednesday, 2 February 2022
AMOS TUTUOLA (1920 - 1997)
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In many ways the Nigerian writer, Amos Tutuola was a special writer, the first from his country to publish a celebrated imaginative work in...
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Saturday, 4 December 2021
MOLARA OGUNDIPE (1940 - 2019)
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Africa has produced many remarkable female literary critics and academics over the decades - like Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana), Assia Djebar (Alger...
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Wednesday, 13 October 2021
ABDULRAZAK GURNAH (Tanzania)
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By I. M Soqaga Every time when the Nobel Prize winner in literature would be announced the news will invariably arouse great int...
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Monday, 23 August 2021
CAMAGU SOMANA (South Africa)
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Many readers - Africa in mind here - find short stories in particular tantalising and gripping. Such creative works are much easier to re...
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Thursday, 8 July 2021
FESTUS IYAYI (Nigeria)
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FESTUS IYAYI By the mid 80s - decades ago Festus Iyayi was already ensconced as a major imaginative writer thanks to 3 superb novels pu...
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Wednesday, 19 May 2021
DORA OKEYO (Kenya)
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By I. Mzwandile Soqaga (South Africa) When we think of Kenyan Literature our minds often automatically go to outstanding writers like Ng...
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