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#BookReview: The Way Back to Us by @kaylangdale @HodderFiction @JazminaMarsh
Originally posted on RatherTooFondofBooks: Today I’m thrilled to be on the blog tour for Kay Langdale’s brand new novel, The Way Back to Us! ? About the Book Since their youngest son, Teddy, was diagnosed with a life-defining illness, Anna has been fighting: against the friends who don’t know how to help; against the team…
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CFP: BCLA – Unforeseen Consequences (Warwick) — BCLA | British Comparative Literature Association
The British Comparative Literature Association Postgraduate Conference, 11 November 2017, University of Warwick Unforeseen Consequences: Literatures of Protest and Political Struggle Keynote speaker: Dr Oliver Davis (University of Warwick) The British Comparative Literature Association invites papers for its annual postgraduate conference to be held at the University of Warwick on 11 November 2017. This conference…
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Born on a Tuesday — Brown Girl Reading
Born on a Tuesday opens following a gang of street boys, who are hanging in the streets and getting up to no good. They spend time smoking wee wee, pillaging, committing random acts of violence and even murder. We are introduced to the main character, Dantala, “born on a Tuesday”, alias Ahmad. His poignant first […]…
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CfP: (Re)framing Narratives of Africa, 3-4 November 2017, BIEA Nairobi, deadline: 30 September 2017
GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2017 (Re)framing Narratives of Africa BIEA Graduate Conference November 3rd and 4th 2017 BIEA, Nairobi, Kenya ? This year’s BIEA Graduate Conference is on the theme of (Re)framing Narratives of Africa. The narratives used to describe ‘Africa’ have had profound impact on how Africa has been positioned in the World. Yet when it…
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SHOWING OFF OR JUST BEING YOURSELF?
I met a guy recently who told me the problem with Nigerians is that we show off a lot. When I prompted him on what he meant he told me Nigerians throw whatever they have in other people’s faces. But what if people are just doing their stuff? What if the last thing on their…
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LUNCH QUOTE FOR MONDAY
“Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge — even wisdom.” Toni Morrison Meditating on this quote helps me to refocus, to understand that the situation does not have to be perfect to achieve personal freedom and sometime, just what you need to generate the anger you need to achieve success is chaos.
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A Review of South African Literature Beyond the Cold War by Monica Popescu —
This week, AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin launches her new series examining the relationship between Africa and Easter/Central Europe with a review of Monica Popescu’s South African Literature Beyond the Cold War. AiW Guest: Katarzyna Kubin Colonial and postcolonial history has customarily been perceived along a North-South axis, while Cold War relations have tended to be…
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