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[New Times] The 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda stands as one of the darkest chapters in human history, claiming over a million innocent lives in just 100 days ..read more
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[Daily Trust] The Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) has urged its contemporaries from around the world to explore the true essence of Nigeria's vibrancy and hospitality ..read more
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[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis, April 4 -- Tunisians Ahmed Somai and Houssemeddine Chachia have won prizes at the 18th Sheikh Zayed Book Award, SZBA 2023-2024 ..read more
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[African Arguments] Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. It is edited and managed by the International African Institute, hosted at SOAS University of London, the owners of the book series of the same name ..read more
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[Ghanaian Times] The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, last Thursday launched a book titled 'Fellow Ghanaians', authored by the Minister of Health-designate, Dr Bernard Okoe Boye, in Accra ..read more
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[The Herald] Renowned author, Memory Chirere, celebrated his Outstanding Poetry Book award he won at the National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) 2023 in style by reading extracts from the winning book "Shamhu yeZera Renyu" in Harare recently ..read more
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[The Conversation Africa] Should we worry, as massive book-banning efforts imply, that young people will be harmed by certain kinds of books? For over a decade and through hundreds of interviews, my colleague, literacy professor Peter Johnston, and I have studied how adolescents experience reading when they have unfettered access to young adult literature. Our findings suggest that many are helped rather than harmed by such reading ..read more
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[The Conversation Africa] What kind of art is left behind by totalitarian regimes? A new free-to-read book called Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence explores the visual culture, architecture and heritage sites of the country today known as the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It does so by exploring two now-notorious regimes: King Leopold II of Belgium's Congo Colony (1908-1960) and Mobutu Sese Seko's totalitarian Zaire, established when he seized power in a military coup in 1965 after five years of ..read more