Bookwormlit · @Bookwormlit
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An African Abroad by Olabisi Ajala:
"When he's not breaking through security to shake the hands of Nikita Khrushchev, he is crashing his scooter through a border between Jordan and Israel in the then partitioned Jerusalem, amidst a hail of gunfire, escaping an assassination attempt in Jordan, or dodging the bullets of eager security agents.."
https://www.amazon.com/African-Abroad-Annotated-Olabisi-Ajala/dp/B0BMH3GQ8G
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Bookwormlit · @Bookwormlit
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INTERVIEW: Nobel prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah talks about his writing life: "Abdulrazak Gurnah has published ten novels, a couple of short stories and some scholarly works."
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Indigo · @Indigo
65 followers · 105 posts · Server zirk.usNobel Laureate, writer, activist, Wole Soyinka in conversation with Emmy-Award winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJeyo9Fl3AA
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