All Gomorrahs Are the Same
Maake
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Nhlanhla Maake
A Socio-critical overview of trajectories of the ‘South African novel’, 2020 – 2023
"I think that the creative is stronger than the destructive!"
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Rudolf Isler
Manès Sperber's magnum opus, his trilogy of novels "Like a Tear in the Ocean", is finally available again. Editor Rudolf Isler explains in an interview why Sperber is still so important today
The Underworld of the First World
Getro Saint-Pha
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Erica Joseph
From Haiti to the U.S.: In Search of a New Language for Migration and the Encounter with our Demons and Dreams
Help! Malawian literature is drowning and needs to be rescued!
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Stanley Onjezani Kenani
Since the fall of the autocratic president and book lover Hastings Kamuzu Banda, the book industry and literary production in the south-east African country has virtually come to a standstill
In search of the lost time
Steven Borges
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Janes Borges
India is not all about the current elections and empowered nationalism and Hinduism, it’s also about the untold stories of national migration and a project conserving their memories
Language can also be a weapon
Paula Winkler
In her novel "Vierundsiebzig" (seventy-four), Ronya Othmann comes close to the limit of human suffering. It is an important travel novel on places of crimes against humanity and an impressive journey into the depths of one's own self.
30 Years Later
Zawadi Tumukunde (Bella)
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Patrick Nzabonimpa
In April 1994, the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda began. Looking at intergenerational Rwandan literature, one finds that not only the older generation of writers continues to grapple with this trauma
The Slow Pace of Change
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Theresa Patrine Ennin
An Exploration of Ghanaian Masculinities from Colonial to Present Times
Imaginary Lives in Sudan’s War Zone
Judy Laing
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Leila Aboulela
Recent Sudanese novels highlight the lives of those caught up in Sudan’s internal wars. Literature reflects the resilience of the Sudanese people and provides a background to the horrific fighting and consequences unfolding
Breaking the silence, overcoming fear
Samar Gisele EL RAHEB
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Iman Humaydan
The Arabic language and creative writing as a means of linguistic emancipation and social liberation