some Namibian reads!

"Walking from the Self" is an anthology of Namibian Poetry and Prose with over 80 poems from across Namibia. The anthology includes poems in English and other indigenous languages spoken in Namibia. The anthology includes two papers presented during 2015 World Poetry Month Commemorations

for kids 4-16*

Marago tells the sad story of a lazy boy in an African village. It narrates how the laziness of a particular boy lead to gossip and back-lashing from the villagers. One day Marago disappeared from his house never to be seen. After a search that involved the entire community was called off, Marago's mother continued searching for her son. Never to be seen again.

Some time ago it might have been believed that words like ‘kaffir’ and ‘ni&&er’ defined a tribe. Or else how can a tribe of people be called Bushmen or Masarwa?

Masarwa is the equivalent of ‘ni&&er’ a term of contempt which means, obliquely, a low, filthy nation.

— Bessie Head (Maru, 1997)

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keep on working on your craft and learning new things, always!

30% into Elephant song by Wilbur Smith. It's an action packed novel alright but some of the violence ain't for the weak of stomach fr

Chinua Achebe's critique on Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" was also a short, interesting read.

A widely read classic exposition of the history of Africans on the continent—and the people of African descent in the United States and in the diaspora—this well researched a***ysis details the development of civiliza

Recommended, about a Nigerian teen trying to escape poverty and goes into a lot of modern strife that plagues the country

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Looking forward to this, been reading Purple Hibiscus so this will be a good follow up for me

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insightful debate

Happy Africa Day, people!

This year's theme of Africa Day is Arts, Culture And Heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Want.

Some reads to commemorate this honourable day on the continent below.

• Decolonization in West Africa and present day South Africa
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• Black music and pan-African solidarity in
  Keorapetse Kgositsile’s poetry
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• Liberation at the end of a pen: Writing Pan-African
  politics of cultural struggle
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• Black Chant (book)
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The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera.

Still reading but

New recs coming soon

• Africa Beyond the Mirror

The media tends to portray Africa in a manner that grossly distorts reality. The picture they paint is intended to make people of African descent feel ashamed of their past and their identity. This is unacceptable and must change. It is therefore a moral imperative for all those who can make themselves heard, to speak out.*

• Murambi, The Book of Bones

*"What is true of Rwanda is true in each of us; we all share in Africa." --L'Harmattan

"This novel comes closer than have many political scientists or historians to trying to understand why this small country... sank in such appalling violence." --Radio France International

In April of 1994, nearly a million Rwandans were killed in what would prove to be one of the swiftest, most terrifying killing sprees of the 20th century. In Murambi, The Book of Bones, Boubacar Boris Diop comes face to face with the chilling horror and overwhelming sadness of the tragedy. Now, the power of Diop's acclaimed novel is available to English-speaking readers through Fiona Mc Laughlin's crisp translation. The novel recounts the story of a Rwandan history teacher, Cornelius Uvimana, who was living and working in Djibouti at the time of the massacre. He returns to Rwanda to try to comprehend the death of his family and to write a play about the events that took place there. As the novel unfolds, Cornelius begins to understand that it is only our humanity that will save us, and that as a writer, he must bear witness to the atrocities of the genocide.*

Books by Boubacar Boris Diop

About to read The Healers by Ayi Kwei Armah.

Anyone read in here?