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A complex historical interaction
Eurafricans in Western Africa registers the many nuances of complex networks that linked dispersed communities and reshaped cross-cultural relations in West Africa over a period of three centuries.
Living on the edge of the world
In The Last Flight of The Flamingo Mia Couto addresses a matter that is close to his heart, an issue that is not peculiar to Mozambique but he uses the peculiarities of Mozambique to tell a tale of environmental tragedy.
A journey through langauge
John Miles writes in Afrikaans, and of South Africa, but in Die Buiteveld (Foreign Fields) he takes readers on a journey through Portugal, through the nature of language, as well as the nature of reconciliation.
Tragedy behind poverty's veil
Stanley Gazemba, a Kenyan gardener who has published many short stories, has created, in The Stone Hills of Maragoli, a work which reflects this expertise in shorter fiction. It tells an ordinary tale of love, celebration, betrayal and revenge, but places all this in a context that is at once familiar for its emotional impact and unfamiliar for its cultural environment.
Conquering hunger
Drive out Hunger is the story of JJ Machobane, the Lesotho-based agriculturist who pioneered, perfected and professed the revolutionary Machobane Farming System of agricultural intercropping.
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