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West African literatures : ways of reading / Stephanie Newell

Where is West Africa? -- Negritude -- Facing East: Islam and Identity in West African Literature -- Oral Literatures -- Lost and Found in Translation -- Things Fall Apart: Presence and Palimpsest in ...
The New York Times

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West

He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism. By Adam Nossiter Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, a Congolese-American ...
Smith College

African Studies

The Program in African Studies provides a systematic introduction to the complex historical, political and social issues of the African continent. Its major and minor are structured to give students ...
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Muslim influences on West African literature and culture

Extracted from: Journal of the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) 7 (2) July 1986, pages 476-502. siris_sil_751607 ...
The Nation Newspaper

Worst of times for global security and stability

When we read Charles Dickens’ “A tale of two cities” in 1960 as one of our West African literature examination books for that year, we did not quite appreciate what picture the author was painting ...