Libra
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lol,the book I am currently reading although it is not a Literary epic, it delves into female circumcition and studies and science about the female and male..Very informative.
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Fought over any good books lately?
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abecedarian
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A couple of weeks ago I read a book called Enslaved: The New British Slavery-Rahila Gupta.I was reminded of From a Crooked Rib, as one of the victims had been brutalized by this practice. Enslaved is not lighthearted reading either, to say the least.
Libra
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beer good
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I don't claim to be an expert by any means, in fact I only really started exploring African literature half-seriously this year (hell, the fact that I was talking about "African" literature, as if it were one country, should tell you how well-versed I am...) :whistling: But I've loved both Things Fall Apart and Wizard of the Crow as previously mentioned; the latter is a bit of a handful at about 900 pages, but it's a both hilarious and thought-provoking look at post-post-colonialist Africa... and TFA, like ABC says, is just a must-read. (Two other rightfully well-known takes on similar subjects are Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North and Wole Soyinka's Aké.)
I wasn't that impressed with either Farah or Coetzee, but a lot of people rate them very highly and I'm starting to think I ought to give From A Crooked Rib a first try and Disgrace a second.
Al-Aswany's The Yacoubian Building isn't exactly a masterpiece of modern fiction, but it is a tremendously entertaining novel which packs quite a few punches in the way it deals with controversial subjects. Definitely recommended.
Also, I posted this list of the 100 best African books of the 20th century a while back. I'm guessing the top isn't a bad place to start.
Lined up for me in the near future: Tahar ben Jelloun, Chris Abani, Assia Djebar, Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, Ivan Vladislavic (yes, he's South African despite the name) and Alan Patel. And Camus, I guess, but I've been putting him off for years already, and why break a good tradition...
Stewart
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I read his Becoming Abigail earlier this year, but sadly never reviewed it. I'll read it again, I think, as it was only seventy pages, or so, and I remember little of it, other than a general thread of people trafficking, which I may have exaggerated. It was set between Nigeria and England, anyway.
abecedarian
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Be sure to check out The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta and Blanket Boy's Moon by Peter Lanham while you're checking out African works. :whistling:
Libra
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I checked out the The Joys of Motherhoodand it does sound like a good read.On to the search.