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Language and the Lagos Men That Become Useless
He is about to slump before her, overpowered by the strong hands that knot a grip around his neck. He struggles to fight back, seeking redemption in … Language and the Lagos Men That Become Useless
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Space and Place – The Perspective of Experience by Yi-Fu Tuan
This is quite an intense book to read. Parts of it read quite easily and other bits are a little dense (to my mind at least). I have worked my way … Space and Place – The Perspective of Experience by Yi-Fu Tuan
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On the Faces of Strangers: Michaël Borremans’s Pandemic Portrait
From Paris Review By John Vincler July 30, 2021 BRUSH STROKES John Vincler’s column Brush Strokes examines what is it that we can find in paintings in our increasingly digital world. MICHAËL BORREMANS, STUDY FOR BIRD, 2020, OIL ON LINEN, 14 1/4 X 11 3/4″. © MICHAËL BORREMANS. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND DAVID ZWIRNER. I didn’t understand how much I needed to…
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Comparative Critical Studies vol. 18.1 is out!
The latest issue of Comparative Critical Studies, published by Edinburgh University Press on behalf of the British Comparative Literature Association… Comparative Critical Studies vol. 18.1 is out!
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Adichie palaver
www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/books/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-essay-tweets.html
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Ecocriticism
Originally posted on Lit7010: What is Ecocriticism? According to Cheryll Glotfelty, (as cited in Peter Barry’s Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory) Ecocriticism is simply defined as “the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment” (p. 239). Ecocriticism is by its nature an interdisciplinary enterprise, which can also be…
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A Sense of Africa in The Exploration of Reminiscences: A Review of Limbe to Lagos: Nonfiction From Cameroon and Nigeria
AiW Guest: Kwame Osei-Poku (Ph.D.), University of Ghana. When a collection of stories succeeds in making its readers identify with and care about real issues, triggering sensations of empathy and reinforcing readers’ own reminiscences, we realise the powerful impact of storytelling – especially when done in the true fashion of a very rich heritage of…
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Ẹ jẹ́ k’á sọ Yorùbá: Yoruba language resources online
The online space offers important opportunities to develop resources for African-language documentation and learning, whether drawing on the power of apps and online games to make language learning fun, or on social media, online databases and crowdsourcing as tools to make knowledge of African languages more widely available. As in many languages, Yoruba names are pregnant…
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Here’s My Body, Take it! A Review of Romeo Oriogun’s ‘A Sacrament of Bodies’ —
AiW Guest: Tikondwe Kaphagawani Chimkowola. Romeo Oriogun’s Sacrament of Bodies (2020) opens with a quote from Kazim Ali that mourns, “in one place everyone looks like me – has my name – I am the most foreign”. This longing for belonging complements the title of the book and refutes the notion of the uniformity of […]…
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What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah — African Book Addict!
Date Read: September 29th 2017 Published: 2017 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pages: 232 The Blurb A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In “Who Will Greet You at Home”, a National […] via What It…
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