Jennifer Tennant
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This week, I found myself sitting for hours in a packed public hospital waiting room. The queue barely moved. Plastic chairs scraped on the floor, babies cried somewhere in the distance, and every few minutes someone would sigh loudly and ask, “Who’s the last one in the line?” It was the kind of scene that…
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Kofifi was a thriving place of light and dark, of hopes and dreams, and ultimately of thwarted lives and loss. And writer, journalist and philosopher Can Themba, fitted right in. Daniel Canodoise Themba, who was born in Pretoria’s Marabastad on 21 June 1924, was a charismatic writer bursting with talent in a country that went…
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David Diop has won the prestigious International Booker Prize for translated fiction with his novel At Night All Blood Is Black about a Senegalese soldier fighting for France in World War I. The Paris-born writer is the first French winner of the prize, given for a book translated into English, and shares the award with…
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