The Day of the Sun
Bassel Salloukh
Hala Kawsarani’s new novel is one of the most intriguing recent publications in the Arabic-speaking world and has been hailed by Arab critics - we present a short excerpt
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
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
Cost of Wedding
Axel Timo Purr
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David Maillu, Ngei Estate, Nairobi
Becoming a writer in colonial times in Kenya is like a psychological overview of African Development itself – as liberating as constricting
Ping on top of Pong
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Issues, Aesthetics, Politics: A close look on politicization and escapism in Indonesian Literature
Reading children's classics postcolonially
Manuel Schmelzer.
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Claudia Sackl
Or why literature (mediation) and reading have always been political
Pictures, books, worlds
Ketty Bertossi
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Sonja Matheson
Baobab Books has been publishing picture books, children's stories and young adult fiction from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania and the Middle East in German translation since 1990, providing authentic insights into other worlds