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Imaginary Lives in Sudan’s War Zone

Judy Laing

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

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Breaking the silence, overcoming fear

Samar Gisele EL RAHEB

Iman Humaydan

The Arabic language and creative writing as a means of linguistic emancipation and social liberation

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Cost of Wedding

Axel Timo Purr

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

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Ping on top of Pong

Private

Issues, Aesthetics, Politics: A close look on politicization and escapism in Indonesian Literature

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Reading children's classics postcolonially

Manuel Schmelzer.

Claudia Sackl

Or why literature (mediation) and reading have always been political

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Pictures, books, worlds

Ketty Bertossi

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

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